Our Furniture Arrived!

All of our furniture arrived! We have everything in it's place except for a couple of little extra stuff, such as pictures on the walls, mirrors, exhaust fans, a couple of bookshelves, rocker in Elijah's room, and desk in our room, etc. But, those are things we will be getting in time. When my whole house is complete I'll make a video for everyone to see, but for now this is what the apartment looks like.

When you walk in the front door you're in the living room.

The opposite side of the living room looking back at the front door

From the living room looking into the dining room (which is the room in the center of the flat). Having curtains to cover all doorways is cultural so that if there are both men and women in the house there can be something to separate the two without closing a door.

The other side of the dining room looking into the living room. (We are using Elijah's stroller as a highchair until we get a real highchair.)

This is looking into Elijah's room from his door. So many Indian's are fascinated by Elijah's room because having a room for your baby is not cultural. All children sleep with their parents until they are five, and then if there is another bedroom in the house they can start sleeping in that room, or at least another bed once they reach five years of age or older. 

Elijah's room gets really hot, so we have curtains that cover not only the windows, but also the door that leads to the deck outside.

Looking into mine and Neal's room. Our room also has a deck that connects to it that wraps around the side and front of the apartment building. We also have a bathroom in our room.

Looking out of the door from our room onto the deck.

This is our favorite view that can be seen from our deck and the window and deck in the family room...you don't see much grass here so the little patch is beautiful to us!

This is a very famous house in our city where the old police commissioner used to live. The yellow and green building is one big house, which is really large in our city. It's divided up into many small apartments now.

Looking down our street...just a little farther and you'd hit one of the main markets in town.

This is our family room. It's actually the third bedroom, which looks like it should be the master bedroom, but we use it for our family/TV room (we don't have the TV yet...but maybe soon). There is a bathroom, with the only western toilet in the house, and a little deck connected to this room. (There are three bathrooms and three decks in the flat)

Looking from the bathroom into the family room

And last, but not least is the kitchen. We don't have our exhaust fans up yet, so we have a brown bag covering the hole in the window where the fan will go. All Indian homes have a stove connected to a gas can, which is why there's a green tube going from the stove under the counter, but no oven. However, we plan to get an oven. You can find them here but they are rare.

We love living here. It's so peaceful and a blessing!