Monday Morning Condo Blogging
Jake wrote me a while back to suggest that my condo-in-process might provide a useful opportunity for some photoblogging. Of course, as I’ll no doubt discuss at great length at a future moment, such a photoblog is a bit complicated by my technological circumstances (see above blog title for a hint), but I’ve nonetheless striven mightily, and can thus present to you the first edition of what (I hope) will be a weekly feature hereabouts: Monday Morning Condo Blogging.
Today’s images date from June 26, and show the possible* future exterior of my building. The building shown is the first one you come to upon entering the complex, which was nearing completion when I took the pictures; my building will be the fifth. My unit is on the third floor, on the northern end of the building.
The unit’s entrance is on the ground floor; the exteriors attempt to mimic a kind of urban-industrial look, but do so in typical Los Angeles po-mo style.
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The living area is on the east side of the building; there’s a great balcony on the north-east corner, between the living and dining areas.
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The ceilings of the third-floor unit are 12 feet high, and the windows are about 8 feet high. They run on three sides of the apartment. And apparently, there are 30 of them.
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There’s only one unit below mine, which takes up all of the second and a good bit of the ground floor. The second-floor units have an extra room, but the ceilings are a mere 10 feet high. And the windows a mere 6. And they have me walking around upstairs.
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There’s a second, smaller balcony off the master bedroom, on the north-west corner.
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Coming next week: images of my actual building-in-progress.
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*I am under strict instructions by the builder not to take anything about this model as a “promise.” Substitutions may be made! Changes may be wrought! They may not be able to help it!
17 August 2004, 6.50 am
That looks really interesting (not “interesting” as in I can’t think of anything nice to say–it looks terrific, but also interesting)! I like the look of the place from the front. You’re going to dig those windows, I bet. Assuming, you know, circumstances don’t require the builder to give you arrow hutches instead.