Home Sweet Home-away-from-home

The time has come to describe where I'm living, since a lot of people have been asking me about it. I live in Hyde Park Gate, just across the street from the Queen's Gate entrance to Kensington Gardens. My flat is on sixth floor (in the US sense); you can see a little round window at the top of the narrow white building in the center of this photo. That's our lovely window, set in a little bay window-style alcove.

For a 360˚ view of the street, click here. From the street view, the big brick building on the right is the Dutch embassy, and the building immediately on the left (attached to ours) is a royal family from Dubai--or so I'm told, at least. A few doors down on the left is the Algerian embassy, as well.

Now for the inside. That little round window mentioned above looks out into Kensington Gardens directly. It's a lovely view; I can't believe how blessed I am. There are four of us sharing this flat--Mallory, Lauren, Tyson, and myself. Lauren, Mallory, and I share a room, and Tyson (logically) has his own. We have a cute little kitchen and a common room with an abundance of couches and chairs, a TV, a table, and a couple of coffee tables. The bathroom has the tiniest shower I've ever seen. It would be almost cute in its minuscule state, if it weren't for the fact that it is just barely large enough to fulfill its function! Because we're the top floor--in what would have been the servants' quarters when this Victorian townhouse was first inhabited--we have slanting walls in every room. I like it; it really adds to the character of the place. There is a lonely wall hook in the middle of the biggest (and only unslanted) wall of our common room, so we're hoping to find a print or painting at a craft market or something like that to make it not look so forlorn. I'll put up a picture if we find one.