Laowai

Just moments before I took these photos this room was covered with scissors, fabric scraps, pattern pieces, pin cushions, bits of stuffing and thread. All the aftermath of making two Halloween costumes. 

Welcome to our living room. We usually come in through the elevator so this is our view when we get home. Down the stairs is the other door that you come through if you don’t take the elevator. There are the posters that I snagged at the brocki. They are from the 70s – advertising routes for SwissAir. The photographer is George Gerster. He did arial photography before everyone and their brother had a drone. The Canada poster shows logs floating in water and the USA one shows the everglades – the little white dots are birds. I love ’em (the posters, not birds). Our bedrooms are down the hall that you see in the middle below.

We have this funny little nook. It’s a good central spot for a desk and all the piles of papers that we need to sort and organize. And I love a good gallery wall so I stuck a bunch of photos of my cuties on a piece of oilcloth. If we were going to be here permanently I would paint the whole wall a pretty color to set it off. 

Here’s the view from the couch. This my view when I watch lots and lots of BBC.

The view from the patio door. You can see our dinning room table in the distance on the right.

This apartment has lots of funny angles and nooks that I don’t quite understand. One of these odd areas is the passage behind the fireplace/elevator block. It’s just a small space where you can walk along the windows from the living room to the dining/kitchen area. It’s so small you might hit your head on the beams if you are too tall. So I made it into our little playmobil land. There’s always lots of light so it’s a good place to play and the toys are sort of tucked out of the way too.

Here are some pillows I’ve made. I made the quilt block one recently.

So that’s it. It’s been fun putting this room together. This sectional used to be in our basement and it didn’t get much use. Now we are used to all spreading out on this roomy couch so I don’t know if we will be able to go back to our regular size one (this is riveting blogging I know). I love our new wooly rug and my round La Fonda coffee table. The best part is the view.