The Apartment 2018 style

November 28, 2018

Here are some "before" pictures of the BYU Vienna apartment.  We had a small leather couch
and matching chair.  And the guest room was arranged pleasantly for a couple or for two people if the beds were moved apart.  There were two large chairs (not shown) that convert into twin beds.
We added a nice Vermeer painting to the guest room (I couldn't find a picture showing it) above the beds.
The other guest room had a twin size trundle bed.  The apartment could comfortably sleep seven guests.  There is also a large full bath and a half bath.

When we arrived this year we were amazed to find many changes.  The large guest room can now sleep eight !!! people.  Two bunkbeds were added, each with a 3rd spot in a trundle bed.  The twin trundle bed is now in that room.

    

    Here is the new couch.  It is velveteen and very deep.  It seems nice, but we can't seem 

      to get comfortable on it.  Since we have to use the living room for our Sunday meals with

    the students, it is not helpful to have a couch that can't take spills.  And for classes - you

   can imagine how easy it would be to fall asleep on that large couch (many students did 

   just that so we had to threaten to move it to the bedroom if the sleeping continued 😃).

We wonder what happened to the leather one.

The new guest room - it feels like a dormitory!

The smaller guest room.  The two chairs can be made into twin beds.

The kitchen before

The kitchen after:  At least this is a positive change:

The kitchen has been re-decorated in pink, green and turquoise.  It's prettier in real life.

There were also several small sets of drawers added to the apartment.  From the first day I began to feel claustrophobic with all the new furniture.  When Julie arrived we rearranged it all until it felt less crowded.  As you can see in the living room picture, we moved the blue chairs into the living room to make more student seating. It feels crowded but gives comfortable seating to more people.  Several students still have to sit on the hard wooden IKEA chairs.  Those students have no trouble staying awake in class!

The apartment can now sleep fourteen people, far too many to be accommodated in the bathrooms.  Roger jokes that someone was running an Airbnb here!  But we feel grateful to have a warm apartment with room for visitors and in a location close to public transportation and the inner city.