More apartment details!

 

We love our new IKEA kitchen table.  The old one will go on the deck and the deck table will go to a Thrift store across the street.  We are enjoying our "contemporary" style!

Although we have a dishwasher, most Finns do not and this is their clever way to do dishes.  You simply wash the dishes and place them in the drying rack above the sink, which is open at the bottom and let the dishes dry, then use them from here or put them away.  At the center the kids use no paper goods. Everyone takes their dishes to the sink, washes them, and puts them in the rack.

We have no disposal so to avoid having to take our food waste to the trash every day, we keep it in this bowl in the freezer and only have to make the trip once a week.  We are lucky to have a lot of freezer space so we can do this!

We love the look of this building from our bedroom view.  When we wake up to dark mornings, the lights are all on in this office building so it creates our sunshine.  There is a kindergarten next door and this is their playground. 

Our view across the street from our living room is this funny little second hand store.  At 10 AM there are always at least 10 people waiting for it to open.






Our view from our kitchen eating area is the end of our street.  The brick building is a Raddison Blu Hotel and you can also see the sea.



Here is a close up view of the sea.  It is a working harbor and not too scenic but it is fun to see water but not fun to feel the winds that blow from here.

We call this light that hangs between our building and the one across the street our "Wind Gauge".  We can tell how windy it is by how much it is swinging!!!

This man is beating his rugs.  There is this structure in our courtyard for this very purpose.  We found a tool in  our apartment that looked like a plastic tennis racket and thought it was for a game.  We were going to get rid of it until we heard pounding one day and saw a man beating his rugs.  Their vacuum cleaners are terrible and weak so they do this.



Our shower comes with this long hose so the entire bathroom floor can be rinsed.  We have a long squeegee to help get the water down the drain.

This is our view up the street heading towards downtown.  We have walked it often from our parking places or to go shopping.  In 20 minutes we are in the heart of downtown Helsinki and at all the major shopping!

Finally, this is my HANDSOME COMPANION!!!  This is the doorway picture that got deleted from the following first post standing by our street door.  Every day we say we couldn't do this without each other!!!