Home Sweet Apartment

Our home for the next couple of years is in this tall apartment building.

A pond outside on ground level.

(Our pool and other amenities are on the 5th or stilt floor, but I'll post more of that later.)

Looking up to the 38 floors.

Looking down to the lobby.

Looking through the side of the building (you can see the pool).

Now come inside.  Here is our entry way looking from our great room towards the front door.

On the left is the kitchen.  It's H-shaped with another sink and dishwasher to the left and the fridge & freezer is behind the door.

This is the only balcony that we use, aka our laundry room.

Our apartment is a double apartment, so this would have been another kitchen.  Instead we're going to use it as a playroom for the kids.

Here is our great room.  Again it is twice the size of the majority of the apartments in our building.  It is set up as 4 areas:

the living room,

a little sitting area,

the dining room,

and a little office area.

I love our view (minus the pigeon netting).  We can see many more tall apartment buildings near and far and more under construction.  We can also see slum houses and shops (the low buildings with the blue tarps on the roofs).  The green patch on the left is the Mahalaxmi Racecourse (for horses).  In the distance on the right is the Arabian Sea.

A close-up shot of the sea also shows our view of the Haji Ali Dargah mosque that was built in 1431.

The hall to the east wing.

The powder room.

The master bedroom

is 2 bedrooms in other apartments.

The master bathroom is tiny though!

Kaleb and Teague's room,

and their bathroom.

The hall to the west wing.

This would have been another bathroom, but all the fixtures have been taken out so it can be a storage room for us.  It has the 3 pack up kits (for our temporary bedding, towels, and dishes, etc.) as well as stuff left behind by the previous occupants.

Noé and Ali's room.

My sweet Noé says their room is plenty big if we adopt Macy and Sasha.  (In my dreams we would, but I don't think it's going to happen.)

The girls' bathroom.

Gavin and Hiram's room,

and bathroom.

I really like our apartment, except for one small thing.  We have 5 bathrooms (as well as a servant's room and squatter bathroom outside), but do not have a single bath tub.  I really prefer shaving my legs in the bath, and washing my little kiddos in the tub.  We're making it work though!