Hi everyone!

I found a few spare moments tonight to snap a few pictures of my new room and kitchen. The house is a gorgeous home, built in the 1930s I believe. This means lots of interesting architectural elements, and nice, solid building materials, along with a lot of quirks (i.e. doors that take an extra push to get them to latch)



Currently, my desk chair is that rather small balance ball...a la a suggestion from Manda. It's really a terrible chair, but it'll tide me over til my new one arrives!

My favorite part of the room...these gorgeous built in little step/shelves (my room is over the front entryway downstairs, hence the stair outcroppings. I'm quite the fan, however. The blue parasol up in the top corner was my Christmas present from Stephan :)



Love the tile work in the kitchen, and all the dried herbs and plants from the garden..

And here is the infamous washer/dryer. I tried to use it last night, and it took me 2.5 hrs to wash/dry a small load of jeans...well mostly dry...and the jeans came out so wrinkled I had to iron them anyway. Damn! Guess I'll be putting in some quality iron time for a while ;-)

I'll put up pictures of the outside of the house and the garden soon!