Our new apartment

Last Friday we signed the lease, and today we picked up the keys to our new apartment! It's a one-bedroom loft apartment in Newtown, a suburb in Sydney's Inner West. It's about a 10 minute walk to the train station and about a 10 minute train ride to the city.

Our shipping container (with all our furniture, the rest of our clothes, etc) is delayed 3 weeks, so the relocation company is getting us some rental furniture for a few weeks. Our temporary accommodation in the Central Business District was nice, but thank goodness we'll be in our own apartment and can stop eating out every night!

Here's the exterior of our building. Our balcony is the one on the top left.


The kitchen is to the right of the front door. Luckily the owner wanted to leave the fridge and the washer and dryer - usually apartments don't come with those and you have to buy your own.


View of the living room from the front door.


View of the living room and balcony from the kitchen.


View from our balcony. The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital is right across the street, so should either of us ever need medical attention (knock on wood), we can limp there.


Looking down the stairs.


The loft bedroom and the bathroom.


Future guests, as you can see, there's not a separate guest bedroom. We tried to look for a 2-bedroom, but the ones in our budget just weren't very nice. So, we'll put you up in the living room. The high ceilings make the apartment seem larger than it is!

Here are the rest of the pics of our new apartment.