Our NEW apartment

We got fairly lucky and have landed ourselves a brand new apartment to live in for the next year. So new, in fact, that we are the first residents. The building is only a few stories high, and has about 4 apartments on each floor. We're at the end of the hall on the second floor. The ground level is a retail space but doesn't have any store or restaurant in it yet. Because almost every other building on our block has a restaurant on the ground floor, I think that's what will most likely be in ours.

Our front door has an electronic code access lock device. You hit a button and then numbers appear in a random order on a display for us to enter the code. It's pretty high-tech. We also have a phone in our bedroom that's hooked up to the door bell, so whenever someone comes to the door we can see who it is via a camera.

When you enter our apartment you first go through a small entry space intended for guests to remove their shoes. From there you go through a glass door, and then can either hang a left to enter our bedroom or go right into our kitchen and dining space. Off of the kitchen to the right is a laundry room and our bathroom. The bathroom is maybe 4'x4', with just a pedestal sink and toilet. The shower is the bathroom. There is a shower head connected to the sink faucet, so when showering you set your water temp and pressure on the sink and then turn a valve to redirect the water to the shower head that hangs on the wall next to the sink. We have to be careful when showering so that everything in the bathroom doesn't get saturated, like the toilet paper or q-tips... It will take some getting used to, but I think we'll become more efficient bathers as a result.