Our future Apartment! --before pictures

Since our last apartment fell through, we have been actively searching out others! And I have quite enjoyed riding around in STYLE in our search! We knew the Lord caused the other place to fall through because He knew of a reason outside of our knowledge that it was not the best place for us. We are grateful for His intervention, and we are excited that He has led us to THIS SPOT!

Yesterday Joey got off work a little early, so he was doing some searching on his own while I finished up my work for the day. When we met up that evening he was SO excited about a place that he had found! So he brought me to see it today. This place is in a newer/nicer compound than we were looking at before, has a nice grassy park area right in front, and is about a 10 minute walk to a very big mall/shopping/grocery store area. This place has absolutely NO furniture or appliances in it! (That's practically unheard of here in China, where all apartments come already furnished.) It's all freshly painted and quite new-looking.

The landlord is wanting to furnish it, so Joey and I spent an evening surfing the IKEA CHINA website and picking our our furniture! We weren't sure how his response to that would be, but he thoroughly looked through our photos, and is going to be continuing to work with us as we fill our home with furniture (at their expense!) So fun. :)

Here is a sneak peek at our future home!


The kitchen (long and narrow, no appliances yet, but a nice area to the left of this photo where we can add shelves to make a walk-in pantry!


The front door and the dining-area. This table will be removed replaced. The door to the left goes into the kitchen. If you look forward from the front door, you see into the living room. We love all the little lights set into the ceiling, there are also lights in the drop-down area of the ceiling that shine up! And we like the kitchen floor! A light beige trimmed in a dark marble-look tile.



Here is the living room, with the balcony coming off the front:


And one side of the living room...this corner will one day have our L-shaped couch!


Here is the spare bedroom/study! This corner will someday have a desk/bookshelf in it!




And here is the Master Bedroom:

And, of course, the bathroom.

So...there is our little picture-tour of our first home! We are meeting the landlord tonight to start to pick out furniture, then they will start to move it in/get it set up for us, as well as install the appliances/air/heat, etc to have it ready for me (Nica) to move in on March 1st!)


Here is a photo of our building. We are on the 4th floor.

And there are even some little palm trees scattered throughout the complex...haha

So, there you have it! Looking forward to keeping you updated on this place as it continues to develop! We are so excited at what the Lord is going to do in this place as we prepare to set up our first home! Thanks for your prayers!!! :)

Joe'n'Nica