Haven't written a long post in a while....we're back from Christmas holidays in Barcelona. We had fun but the amount of visits and meetings was brutal and we ended up really tired...
Now back here we will have several people coming to Rio to visit, which is nice^^. However, I will also need to do a lot of work in this period, because I have been given several tasks to do that are important, but a pain in the ass to prepare....and I'm in this status of "oh, so much work to do", and then delaying starting working on the worst part...
Anyway, there's something new and nice that we have done while in Barcelona. We bought the apartment in may, but the apartment needed to be rebuild. That's also a lot of work and decisions...but we've made an important one, the distribution.
Here's an image of the distribution we have chosen:
As you can see, there's lots of space, but we wanted to have 4 rooms and 2 toilet, so that already limits things quite a lot. It was hard to see how this would fit and be nice at the same time...
The end result is that we almost won't have corridors, so we save space. Instead we will reach the kitchen and the dining room from the entrance, and the dining room is connected to the living room but can be separated at will. This way the living room is smaller but without having to worry about the table we win a lot of space.
The kitchen is big enough, and there's a window between kitchen and dining table which makes it nicer and more sociable to be preparing food. We also have a storage room/washing machine room, where we can handle all the laundry process without needing to occupy other spaces and giving us also a lot of storage volume.
Next to the living room we'll have a guest room/office. This space probably is the one that most people said to be not sure if it was needed, but we think it is nice to have and allow us to divide the living room from guests sleeping (in plenty of places the coach doubles as the guests' bed), while also giving us an office area next to the centre of the house.
The main toilet is close to everything, at the centre, so anyone can access it. Then we have two possible kid rooms, one a little smaller than the other, but we know that with the right furniture this is a very small difference.
Our room is big but as small as possible, with a nice extra second toilet. The funnier part is probably the shower, which is basically in the interior terrace, a funny position that made us doubt, but in the end we though it would be fine.
All windows are exterior and we believe the will be lots of light, also because it is a 5th floor so we're quite high.
The furniture indicated in there it's nor fixed yet, only kitchen and toilets will really be like that, so we don't know yet how everything will turn out, but it is exciting to have already decided on this^^.
Now we need still to agree about a lot of details regarding electric cabling and walls, then there's the budget planning in which we may need to change something and agree on materials and different things, and finally the actual construction will take place...still a lot of things to do....
But it feels nice to be closer to seeing the final result ^^
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