To the penthouse, baby!
Alex and I have finally moved into our fabulous new apartment in the absolute center of the city (if Bangkok actually had a center, this would be it). We love our new place and can’t believe that we didn’t move downtown earlier. Once we get home from work (usually 45 minutes – an hour on the school bus), we have the whole city at our fingertips. We can walk to some of our favorite places to shop, eat, and stroll, and we’re exactly 1 minute walk away from the nearest BTS station. I keep pinching myself to see if I’m dreaming!
Thankfully we decided to use Transpo (a total steal at around US$200) to move our stuff (instead of trying to cart all 155 boxes, plus beds, tables, and bookcases down here ourselves). They were fantastic, as usual, and has us packed out last Friday and moved in by Saturday evening. We spent the rest of the long weekend moving things around and starting to decorate just in time for our very first house guest, my wonderful edublogging friend from New Zealand, Chrissy.
I think it’s starting to look pretty good… Here’s a tour:
My favorite shot: The view of the LR from the second floor:
Back to the first floor, this is the LR from the dining room area, you can see the office behind the TV cabinet:
Again from the LR, this one is looking up to the guest bedroom:
Upstairs we have the two bedrooms and a great walk-in closet in the master. Both bedrooms have full bath, and there’s a third bathroom downstairs for guests. We have a great walk-in pantry with washer, dryer and lots of shelving off the kitchen as well. The rest of the pictures are posted on Flickr, if you’re interested.
The floor to ceiling windows and loft-style open LR are just amazing – everything feels so open and light! We used to live in a beautiful place in CT when we first graduated from university, a renovated ribbon mill with super high ceilings and huge windows. It was my absolute favorite home until we moved in here.
Now I’m going to have a tough time dragging myself away to go on vacation!
Wow, that’s amazing! After two months, we are still searching, and the agent has not shown us anything worth considering.
I would be very grateful if you can some advice about the flat hunt – my email thedivine.missm[at]yahoocom. Enjoy your wonderful flat, cheers.
A most excellent apartment, superkim! I’m jealous! I love the space and I love how you’ve decorated it and how all your furnishings really pull together. Honestly, it’s a great place!! Love love it!
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It’s such a cool palace! (Not a sp. mistake of place!)
And of course an absolute honour to be your first house guest. Thanks so much for having me to stay – it was a blast and I can’t wait til I’m back again some day! Don’t forget to let me know how long the “candy shop” feeling goes for!
What a beautiful place. I’m so happy for both of you. I was just on the phone a few minutes ago before I got online, wailing about how this Manhattan apartment is not suited for living. I want to come to Thailand. I want a pantry and walk in closet! I love the height and airiness of your apartment too. This place will be conducive to thinking. Congrats again and looking forward to seeing you both in July.
This place is amazing, congrats!
I enjoy your blog and plan to visit often.
Looks totally great there!
Miss you and thinking of you very often!
I have, oh, so much news! I really have to learn to skype!
Wow!!! What a great apartment! And that window…. I love large windows 🙂 And that sofa 🙂 I would like to find a similar sofa too… I like to make colourful pillows and on that kind of sofa they would look great 🙂
It has to be a great feeling… I hope that I can move to my own soon… I plan it on the end of the year, but who knows… I hope it will be sooner…
Looks like a fabulous place! I love the high ceilings and the modern look. I probably wouldn’t leave very often either, if I were you.:-)
Really nice. Dare I ask how many sq.meters you have and how many baht you pay for it?
Jealous! The best I could find when I lived in Bangkok was one of those “luxury serviced appartments” which was actually a kind of studio flat with a reception and nice water features!
Your place looks brilliant but probably out of my meagre budget. You must be teaching rocket science to wealthy Thai students?
I wanna live in your apartment! It looks fantastic!
Really cool. I been to Bangkok several times, and when I see our photos I consider moving there permanently! 🙂
Not good livinf were I do. That appartment is beautifull!