home tour

Let's just pretend we aren't one week away from celebrating three months of living in Cape Town, because then the fact that I am only now getting around to posting some pics of our house wouldn't seem so lame. There were reasons, of course, for delaying: I wanted the ceiling painting to be done so there was not scaffolding around, I wanted our crate to arrive so our beloved belongings would be in the pictures, I wanted to get our art hung on the walls first. None the less, here we are at long last.

Our humble adobe at 32 Mortimer Road.

You are now through the front door. The study (aka: the room where we keep all the boxed stuff belonging to the woman we are renting from and the boxed stuff we are keeping stored until we have a house) is on the right. The guest bedroom is on the left.

(please use your imagination to make this room look far tidier than it is)

The lounge, complete with a fireplace.

The super cool display case in the lounge, full of wedding pressies, cookbooks, and little treasures from our travels. A note on the walls: the owner had recently damp-proofed the house and was going to paint the walls until she needed to leave the country and care for her father. So what you see isn't the result of some crazy home painting trend in Cape Town but merely a job not fully done.

Continuing through the house, you reach the kitchen (my favorite room). The food on the counter is in preparation for our supper of Balinese chicken curry and desert of pumpkin tea cake (from the Tartine cookbook...heaven!). Also, note the demi-fridge. It keeps one from over-buying, that's for sure. It also currently smells strongly of guava, which is not a bad thing.

From the kitchen you can continue back into the bathroom...

...or exit left into the courtyard.

Hope you enjoyed the tour of our happy home and that you'll come visit it soon.