Our Little Corner of London

We've been in London for about four months, and in our flat for three. We are just about completely settled (I'm wondering when I'll feel confident enough to say we're truly completely settled). So I thought it was time for a peek at our London digs . . .


Upon arrival in our neck of the woods this is what you're most likely to see, the sign on the platform at the St. John's Wood tube station


Then you'd step onto this street


After ringing up to our flat to have us buzz you in, you'd reach our door a couple of levels up


You are greeted by the entrance hallway with the kitchen, guest bedroom with bath and laundry room down the hallway off to the right, a guest WC right next to stroller parking straight ahead, three bedrooms and two baths behind the door straight ahead, and two reception rooms off to the left. Got all that?


Hallway off to the right of entrance hallway leading to kitchen, guest bed and bath and laundry room. As you can tell closests do not abound here, so thus the loaded coat rack.


This laundry room may not look like much, but it's a rarity in a London flat, so is the dryer. Most flats here only have one combo unit and it's located under the counter somewhere in the kitchen. Our machines may be small, but we're so glad to have them!


The guest room doubles as a project area for the kids until guests arrive.


The kitchen as you first enter


The view onto Madeleine's school from our kitchen window (can you see the school security guard?)


Kitchen


Kitchen


The guest WC back in the entrance hallway that we affectionately call the airplane lavatory


Bathroom with small shower in the main sleeping quarters


This bathroom is oddly right next door to the bathroom shown above. It has a tub and separate shower (wedged behind the door), but we really wish they would have knocked down the wall and traded the two narrow bathrooms for one large one!


Trev's room


Dallin and Madeleine's room


We gave Dallin and Madeleine what is supposed to be the master (although aside from the guest room, none of the bedrooms have en suite bathrooms) so they would have more room to play


The "master" bedroom


First of the two rooms in our flat's double reception (living rooms are called reception rooms in the UK)


Despite the fact that London is rather gloomy we do get decent natural light in part because of these large windows (although the exposure in these shots renders things a bit brighter than normal!)


The second of the two rooms in our flat's double reception, our dining room


Chaise lounge a la Ikea in the dining room


Dining room


A view of the entirity of the double reception

And that concludes our tour! Oh, Happy Thanksgiving! Today is Thanksgiving, right?