Showing posts with label apartment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apartment. Show all posts

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Help me cozify my apartment?


Here's the living room:



There are way too many chairs. I'm not sure what to do with all of them.




Living room & Kitchen - that white thing separating the kitchen from the living room is moveable, but I do like the counter space that it provides.




Another shot of the living room




This is an odd window in the living room, thinking about setting my desk up in front of it:









OK, Please help. Any suggestions are welcome - I'm kind of overwhelmed and don't really know how to make this place feel cozy instead of vaguely dorm-like. What do you think?

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

I came, I saw, I shopped:


I've been in Leuven for 4 days now, but have just managed to get internet at my apartment (pictured above) today.  I got to explore the entire town on foot looking for a power adapter for my laptop, which was frustrating at times, but now I know where Diestsestraat is, and what they sell at fnac, and I have a store credit at AS Adventure (I bought a bells-and-whistles power adapter from them for 27 euro! And it didn't even work with my laptop.  I was getting desperate).

Luckily I got in on a Saturday, which is when the market is set up in the center of Leuven - unfortunately though, I didn't take any pictures. I did get some nice fresh bread and cheese, and a sausage and some olives, and I've been snacking on those all week.  A pushy French vendor convinced me to buy 3 heads of french garlic, and now I have no idea what to do with them.  I've been a little bit bored living here by myself so for some entertainment I've been cooking and will post some recipes soon.  I've been doing a lot of reading too, but now that I have the computer I'll probably just goof off on the internet most of the time, as is my wont.

Today I found a french press and a nice coffee mug at my new favorite store, Hema (I'm well on my way to outfitting my entire apartment in gear from Hema). And I got some coffee at Koffie Onan, so I am currently enjoying a nice cup of coffee.

Translation update: "onan" is apparently the dutch word for "unacceptable"