the corners of our (temporary) home

Welcome to our new home!

It's pretty here, with a lot of natural light and cross breezes. This is vertical living, a townhouse with the bedrooms on the main floor and the living/dining/family/kitchen is one big, loft-like room upstairs.  It's comfortable and familiar to me. When we lived in Brooklyn Heights our apartment was one big living space, (one wall was brick, which I adored), an open plan with the bedrooms on one side of a large room with a galley kitchen. That apartment was sweet and living here, I'm remembering all the good of that space: the high ceilings and natural light. Having the dining table close to the kitchen so it becomes a place to have meals again.

 The best part of the whole space I think, is the little deck on the front of the house. Ok, really the best part of the house is probably the private roof deck, but that's for another post. Because the small deck, (the sliding doors on the left side of the above photo),  is amazing. Hot pink flowers. A sliver of the ocean blue. White adirondack style chairs. It's where I envision myself studying this Fall and it's where I have my morning cup of tea.

And finally, there are stairs leading below ground to the garage, which we can enter from the house. Total suburban living, right?

Except we're totally urban, dude. We're a part of Los Angeles County and with that comes its own host of issues, but right now the pluses are that we're living in a house at the beach and we're in a thriving metropolis. Ok, there's traffic. And getting around to and from into the city proper  is no easy feat.

The beauty of this rental house is that we're close enough to the main hub of our little town, (and the beach!), and with that proximity, we can walk everywhere. There's groceries and a drugstore. Two different coffee places and tasty restaurants. The post office and the public library are on the way to miss A's new school.  We'll be able to walk to school and there's a farmer's market on the end of our block. I'm sure I'll eventually get sick of the time it takes to drive places, but right now, comparing it to the best of circumstances on NJ Transit, (it was always an hour door to door), this is pretty fantastic.