apartment visit
Jan. 6th, 2006 11:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
awhyzipVisited my first apartment prospect tonight. It's the 3.5-er in Arlington Heights. I wasn't honestly expecting to like it very much, so it was a good one to start with.
I surprised myself by liking it much more than I was expecting to. Although I hope & expect to find other places that are nicer enough that I stop considering it. This place is quirky. Probably too quirky. I doubt I'm bohemian enough to make it home well.
Plus you can't stand up in the tub (dormer). That should be a deal breaker -- how can I deal w/ my hair if I can't stand up in the tub and need one hand to hold the showerhead? I'd stain the ceiling AND probably bash my head alot. I'm posture-unconscious like that. (It's not like the Arlapt upstairs bathroom, where you could stand in the tub at the one end although not in the other.)
Also, the wallpaper I liked least in the place had "sentimental" value to the landlady. Other walls are paintable, though (one's already a pretty lavender).
I really like the factory-style to-the-ceiling transom windows over the doorways.
I surprised myself by liking it much more than I was expecting to. Although I hope & expect to find other places that are nicer enough that I stop considering it. This place is quirky. Probably too quirky. I doubt I'm bohemian enough to make it home well.
Plus you can't stand up in the tub (dormer). That should be a deal breaker -- how can I deal w/ my hair if I can't stand up in the tub and need one hand to hold the showerhead? I'd stain the ceiling AND probably bash my head alot. I'm posture-unconscious like that. (It's not like the Arlapt upstairs bathroom, where you could stand in the tub at the one end although not in the other.)
Also, the wallpaper I liked least in the place had "sentimental" value to the landlady. Other walls are paintable, though (one's already a pretty lavender).
I really like the factory-style to-the-ceiling transom windows over the doorways.
