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Hello again - just thought I would give you a design update. Firstly, I went yesterday to buy the last of the fabric I need to make curtains for the apartment. I also bought blackout lining, but of a kind you have never seen before. It is the most beautiful woven quality, and could easily be used as curtains rather than just lining. And, the best part, it was only 4000 won per yard, which is less than $US4 per yard. Oh, and it also comes in 12 colours.
Anyhoo, I too some pics, so here we go. The flowers are for the lounge, and the dolls are for the girls room.
I also have a pic of our TV cabinet that I am in love with. John loves it as it holds up the TV.
Yay, we have moved. I have never lived in a house that had new floor and walls before we moved in, so it is an incentive to keep things looking nice from the start. Our boxes from arrived on Thursday, and were unpacked by the lovely men from Crown Relocations, who then took away the mess. LOVE Crown. The apartment is still in a bit of chaos because we have no drawers to put things in, or shelves to put things on, so the dining table resembles a yard sale table, and the floor in the bedrooms resembles ... well, the usual floor in the bedrooms to be honest.
I want to get a couple of chests of drawers for the girls room, just plain white, like the Malm ones from Ikea. Unfortunately, there is no Ikea in Korea. For our spare/office/sewing room I want to get a big cube bookcase that basically takes up a whole wall, and can have all our books, toys, sewing stuff on it and still look neat.
For our room we already have a hanging rack down one wall, and we could probably do with one more to take all the long stuff (translation: my dresses). We also need drawers. Did I mention that there is no Ikea here?
The lounge at the moment has a very old uncomfortable brown leather couch, which will have to do for now, as we need a rug more. Mostly for noise so we don't annoy the downstairs neighbours, but also to make the space a bit more cosy.
I will try to post more photos, but honestly, I am a bit confused as to how to load them, arrange them and so on on this blog. I know it can be done, as I have discovered the world of online design blogs, and they look lovely on their blogspots.
For now, words will have to do. Sorry.
Today is cleaning day in our new apartment, and we start moving in tomorrow. The most excellent news is that we are not doing the cleaning!
Since my last I have picked the wallpaper three times (first the company was too expensive, second there wasn't enough for the lounge, and third time was a charm). The girls picked their own wallpaper, so as expected, they have pink and white stripes. We also got to pick a new floor, which is quite a lovely deep greyish brown. I am very happy with the colours as they now appear on the walls, but I must say that the wall prep under the paper isn't the best. Still, we didn't have to pay for any of it, so can't complain too loudly.
I will try to remember to take photos this afternoon so you can see the rooms all finished before all our personal junk messes up the space.
So, we move downstairs starting tomorrow, and hopefully our things from the US get delivered on Thursday.
I am excited.
Seeing as I have been updating here, as well as Facebook, I can't remember if I have said anything here about our new apartment, that is supposed to be ready for us next week.
The story so far ... (or for BSG fans, "previously on Kiwis in Korea...")
We arrived here, and our apartment wasn't ready, so we go moved into temporary accommodations. We are currently still in 301, and our new apartment is 202. There are only 8 apartments in this building, so we will be moving downstairs, and along one. Any-hoo, apartment 301 is owned by PCUSA, and so is wired for 110V, so all our misc electrical goods we left in the US would have worked here. Our new apartment will be wired for 240V.
There was a visiting professor staying in 201, and he got moved out a couple of weeks ago. We then got the keys, and took a look.
The floor was all bubbled (cheap flooring laid over underfloor heating), and all the wallpaper was white, so we picked new floor and wallpaper (out of one book) and it should all be completed by this coming Sunday.
John leaves on Monday for NZ, so we hope to have our things from the US arrive and be unpacked while he is away, and then we can move ourselves in.
Will keep you posted!
1. Not to wear suede shoes on the subway - you get impressions of everyone elses shoes embossed into your ones.
2. What it feels like to be a celebrity - everyone looking at you all the time, and not being subtle about it.
3. I can cook without an oven.
4. You can lose weight only eating Special K.
5. A rice cooker is a most wonderful invention.
6. If you click buttons long enough on a furniture website, you eventually find what you were looking for.
7. Having no torrent laws is indeed a blessing.
8. Living on a seriously dry campus is not.
9. Having a label machine is invaluable = to having someone translate for you what the buttons mean on the washing machine and then covering them up with labels in English.
10. Having a combo washer/dryer makes all clothes come out like those twisted skirts we used to wear when we thought we were cool.
11. Yellow sand tastes awful.
12. Aloe drink tastes like Fijoas.
13. Road rules are optional.
14. There are an unlimited number of things that are described as food that you really don't want to put in your mouth.
15. Living on the side of a mountain involves LOTS of stairs.
I am sitting here, waiting for the final episode of Battlestar Galactica EVER to download so, thought that as the computer was on, why not update you all. So, greetings to those of you who still bother to visit this blog. I had every good intention of blogging on a regular basis, but have already fallen into my usual slovenly blogging ways. Apologies.
So, it is nearing the end of March, so that means Spring is here. We have only been in Seoul for 4 weeks, and have noticed even in that short time that the weather has warmed up considerably. We started off in heavy coats, scarves and boots, and today went out in t-shirts and jeans.
On Mt Achasan, which we visit most days, there are lots of little shoots appearing out of the ground, and in the next few weeks all the cherry blossoms are expected to arrive in unseen before quantities. It is quite fun to see the mountain come alive after winter killed everything off (above ground). Mila has been climbing with John a couple of times, and Trinity and I tend to cry off if we can.
Our new apartment will be ready within the next 2 weeks, with new flooring and wallpaper throughout. I had to choose all the wallpaper from one book, so the results will be interesting. The timing of the place being ready is perfect as our things from America arrive by sea on March 28th, and the shipping company are going to hold them for free until April 10th. We hope to move in around April 2nd. John will be in New Zealand that week fulfilling his duty as best man for his cousin Matt, so we hope to get sorted while he is away.
We celebrated John's birthday on March 16th with a special cake that the girls designed. We don't have an oven so bought on at a small shop near here. The girls couldn't decide whether it should be pink, or blue, have a rainbow or flowers ... anyway, as you can see the results were perfect for a 37 year old man with 2 young daughters.
I seem to be updating my Facebook page much more regularly than this blog, so is you want you can pop over to Facebook and become my friend, then take a look at the rest of my stuff.
I will try to be more diligent here for those of you who are allergic to Facebook.
