Tour of the house
My sister asked me for pictures of our apartment, since she’s never seen it, so I’ll put a few here:
I’ll post them as if you’re standing in the middle of the main room, turning clockwise. Here’s the shelf when you enter:
“Dining room”
Icon corner:
Going around to the right:
“Nursery” (haha)
The Chair. I keep a little icon, a prayer book, and a prayer rope by it since that’s where I nurse the baby and I liked having it there in the middle of the night. The icon is quite appropriate, since it is an icon of the Theotokos nursing the infant Jesus. Can you tell what the table is? It’s a box of disposable diapers. Someone gave them to us and I figured they might come in handy, you know, someday. But I’ve never had a use for them so far, so I put a cloth and a doily on it, and it serves quite nicely as my side table.
James’ toy basket:
Then, after the piano is the door to the bedroom. Here are the icons near the window:
The ladies at my home church (St. Paul’s Antiochian Orthodox Church in Brier, WA) made this quilt for us when we got married. There’s also a cute baby about to take his nap :)
This is getting prettied up a bit with some more color, but I don’t have a picture yet. Baby is now looking less pleased with the nap idea.
Dresser:
I don’t have a good picture of the kitchen, but here’s an old one from when I was making bread:
I don’t have a picture of my bathroom, but I’m sure you’re all ok with that :) Thats all! All 450 square feet or so. I kind of like my small space. It will come in very handy when James starts crawling - I can always see where he is!
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April 12th, 2010 at 2:38 am
What a blessing to be surrounded by holy icons everywhere you turn! The one in the lower left, in the kitchen, is one I’ve been looking at and wanting to get forever. It’s almost hard to imagine a time when our whole house is filled with them, but just writing this comment is making me think we should re-prioritize how we spend our money.
April 12th, 2010 at 9:39 am
Hi Tina!
The one I think you’re talking about, Christ of Sinai, is one of my favorites. I actually walked RIGHT BY the monastery where the original is, at the base of Mt. Sinai in the desert, and didn’t go in! It’s one of the stupidest things I ever did.
Our icon collection is the result of about eight years of us seperately buying and (mostly) being given icons. If you would like an icon corner in your house, I would just start with maybe two icons that you really love, and you can add others over several years of saints you grow to love. Two icon reproductions would probably cost you $50 tops. skete.com is a good place to start.
April 19th, 2010 at 8:29 pm
What a fun post! Your apartment looks so much bigger than 450 square feet. You’ve done a very nice job decorating.
July 15th, 2010 at 3:41 am
Your Icons are fabulous! I’m making a website for an Iconologist (priest). http://thedoveatthewindow.com You might enjoy looking at them. But here is a giant question!!! I cannot for the life of me get in the hit counter on my blog site. Here is the footer:
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I have tried it everywhere and I am putting it in correctly. Please help.
I love what you did with the icon corner. I want to do that in my home!!!
July 15th, 2010 at 3:41 am
Oh oh…the footer didn’t go through to comments.