Setting the House in Order

Greetings from our fully-furnished apartment (whoops, I mean flat) here in London. Our HHE (Household Effects) arrived a few weeks ago, which means we have basically been spending all our free time putting our house in order by going to IKEA, building IKEA stuff, hanging pictures, hanging pot racks, exchanging furniture, installing air conditioning units in the bedrooms, and so on. To be honest, it's a bit exhausting, be we finally see the light at the end of the tunnel, and our house is finally coming together.

The main room of the house is surprisingly large and open, which means we were able to kind-of separate it into two rooms: the dining room and the living room.

I was skeptical of Sarah's plan to create a giant photo collage with a TV in the middle, but once again, she pulled it off.

I still love the view from this kitchen window. Our apartment is west-facing, however, which means that this time of year the kitchen will superheat to 8000 degrees unless you keep the blinds closed. Bummer.

Just enough counter space to hold all of our weird kitchen gadgets. In case you're wondering, that mysterious black box is the transformer provided by the Embassy that powers all of our US appliances. Yay!

I'm especially happy with the Duke of Kensington's bedroom, which came out really well. Although it is a bit small, I feel like we really maximized the space in there. And unlike in his room in Juarez, we actually managed to hang some pictures on the wall (along with a sombrero).

We still have one or two more projects left on our list, but we're almost there. Big thanks to my interior designer/chief operating officer for putting the whole vision together. I'm just here to swing the hammer once in a while.