I offically have a place to live next year!!

After a rather upsetting few days of apartment hunting my new flatmates and I were feeling rather downtrodden.  Between the massively expensive place that was half an hour away from anywhere we would need to go and the cheaper place with a kitchen the size of a coat closet we approached our last viewing of the day with trepidation (especially since there were no pictures online).  We were happy to find that the flat was in a nice neighborhood, very residential and not heavily student-y.  On a funny side-note, we had walked by the street where our new flat is earlier and (not realizing that it was the street we were visiting later) I said "Hey, I'd like to live on that street!" and all my future flatmates agreed with me so we were pretty excited when we realized that that was where our next viewing was.  Despite this fortuitous coincidence we were still pretty nervous about this place, mostly because it was rented through a private landlord and not a letting service and also because of the lack of pictures online.  We also wondered about the place because it was significantly cheaper than all the other places we looked at so we thought it might be really awful inside (but the outside was really nice so we were cautiously optimistic).  Then our future landlord arrived, he was a lovely older Middle Eastern man with a long white beard who complemented us on our punctuality and pulled togetherness and lead us into the house...and it was lovely.

There was a nice well lit entryway (and we have seen some pretty creepy/dingy entryways in our search) with an almost spiraling stairway up to the flat we were looking at on the third floor, so far so good (in fact better than anywhere else we had looked) but we sill hadn't gotten inside yet.  And when we did, it was pretty great, the flat is old with massively high ceilings and impressively detailed moldings.  There were 5 bedrooms of varying size, from absolutely massive to rather small but they were all nice and the smaller bedrooms have lofted beds which are nice and make them feel much larger than they are.  There is a kitchen/lounge that needs some work but it is a lot larger than any of the other places we looked at so that is very nice.

We are signing our lease tonight and (with the permission of the current residents) I am planning on taking some pictures so stay tuned!

Love ya!