This and That

I thought that I might share some of the other photos that I took around the condo. Here is the living room with some of the new furniture from Ikea. We like the scale and it fits the room perfectly. The TV is a 50″ with a sound bar and a subwoofer and is hooked up to a media laptop, which is perfect for streaming from the internet. We decided that rather than a cable package, internet access was much more important since we have a Slingbox and everything from our rather extensive DirectTV service (plus everything that we record) is available. Also, we have a very extensive movie collection on our server and with internet access it’s all available.

The master bedroom now has a very comfy king-sized bed from Ikea. I really hate most of the beds that we have found in our apartment rentals. They generally fall between just OK to really miserable wooden pallets. If you are going to rent a place, at least make your guests comfortable. What’s interesting is that the bed hardly seems to be a king, the room is so big. The master bedroom could easily be 1/3rd smaller and you would not feel cramped at all. The question now is how to fill it. The walk-in closet has shelves and racks, with more than enough room for clothes. It even has room for a chest of drawers, if needed. We still want to paint the room and add the a/c unit under the window. That will be for the fall trip.

I took this picture from our front terrace to show the finished paint job on the building opposite us. It really came out well. To date they have painted two of the buildings and have started on the third one, which is in our Ensueno section.

The office told us that the next building to be painted will be ours, but we’ll see. For now I am just as happy looking at a finished building rather than living in one.

I also took a picture of the back of our building. Since we were here in November, one of our neighbors has started a plantain plantation right behind our wall! It really looks great from the back yard. We see them out there every day tending to it. One of the things that we learned at the closing is that the builder went bankrupt, which is how the bank wound up with these units. The area above us was supposed to be developed as another phase with high end town homes and apartments. The street is there along with the drainage system although it is overgrown and a bit in disrepair. I walked to the top and there are great views over this side of the island.

I asked at the office if there would be future development but apparently no plans are in the works. So for now we get the view of the hill and the plantain trees and with a walk to the top of the hill, a great vista to be enjoyed.