The Odyssey

I'm walking up the driveway to The Odyssey. Hey, there's our unit on the right along the driveway. I can see the sign for the building straight ahead. It says "The Odyssey 2001." I wonder if Stanley Kubrick lives here.

I'm taking a picture of our bedroom window, which is right on the courtyard near the lobby. In fact, there is a view of our place from the 24-hour front desk, which is actually a good thing from a security standpoint. Thankfully, all of our windows are super-reflective and it's very difficult to see inside. The result is that my photo looks almost like a mirror.
To the right there's a door to a storage unit that's owned by the condo association. We have access to our apartment through this storage room. Convenient, sure. But the first thing we'd do is get an alarm system to be safe.

Here's the front door to the building. It looks much cooler in person.


Here's the front desk, which is manned 24 hours. I talked to the lady manning, er ladying, the desk and she was very nice.

Here's is the awesomeness that is the lobby. Behold.

I could hang out here with a book and a glass of wine and pretend it's my living room.

We went to the 17th floor to check out the gym.

You can see the pool from the cardio machines.

Here's the view beyond the weight bench. Stunning. There's a big ole patio around the pool where we could watch the fireworks that would have this same view.

The gym was quiet. There was only one guy in there on an elliptical machine. I'm guessing it's much busier in the morning, and there are only four cardio machines. There's a gym opening across the street just in case.

Free weights are my favey.

Sita poses in the sauna. Apparently it's cold in there.

Back down to the first floor. What's that I see? I think it's the front door to the unit. Let's have a look see.

Welcome

You can tell that the bank changed the locks.

Here's the door handle and lock from the inside. Yup, it's definitely been replaced.

What's that on the floor next to the front door?

Yuck! Dead worms.

Forget the worms for a sec. Look straight ahead with your back to the door. The kitchen is ahead on the left, and the fireplace is on the far wall in the living room. To the right is a closet.

To your left after you walk in, you'll see the half bathroom.

There's a stacked washer & dryer inside this bathroom.

To your right, there's a very large coat closet.

Behind the next door is ... that thing. Looks like the water heater to me.

The Kitchen

Here we have the kitchen. I'll give you a tour of the features. First you'll notice there are lots and lots of cabinets. Pretty cool. I could finally take our mixer out of the box and we'd be able to use our new glasses. There are also cabinets on the other side of the island. If we wanted, we could put short little bar stools in front there.

Here's a closer shot of the fridge. There's a white sticker on there towards the top, but I scraped at it and it will come right off. The appliances are all GE.

You've got your oven and your mounted nuker. That's nice that we'll save some counter space.


I've seen nicer sinks, but oh well.

Dishwasher. Check.

And here we are in the living room. The door to the master bedroom is straight ahead to the left of the fireplace. The door to another bed/bath suite is on the right. The third bedroom door is out of frame, closer to the camera and to the right.

Let's look at the fireplace. You wouldn't notice unless you stuck your face right in there like this, but there is a mirror at the back of the fireplace that, if this thing actually works, would reflect the flames to make the room look brighter. This thing is gas if it's real.

There's a cable hook-up above the fireplace, so we could just perch a flat screen TV set on top.

There's a slight crack in the mantel. I pushed on it, but it's not moving. Maybe the owner tried to break it, but it was too sturdy.

Here's some "charm" for you. If you look closely, you can see this light switch plate is on crooked.

Here is how a window shade is supposed to look. The windows are really BIG and I'm looking up at the shade.

Here is how a window shade is NOT supposed to look. It's clipped on there with a red and a blue clip.

I moved the shade and took a peek to see what's under there. Looks broken! We'd definitely need to get that taken care of. We'd probably get some nice window treatments and lose the industrial shades anyway.


I can look out the window and over at the neighbor's patio if I'm feeling nosy.

Here's the long view of the living room. It's 26 feet long and about 15 feet wide. I have my back to the doors of the third bedroom.
The fireplace is to my right and the kitchen is to my left.

The bedroom that has a pretty big closet, but no bathroom.

Here are the doors to a bedroom. There's about a quarter inch gap in between the doors.

They don't quite align with each other, as you can see there at the top. This room would serve as an office. Well, until kid #2 anyway. Eventually we'd have to fix those doors.

This room is about 12 feet 4 inches from the doors to the windows. There's a 2-foot-wide column that juts out on the right hand side of the room that you can see in this picture, so with the column in mind, the room is 8 and a half feet wide at its narrowest. It's big enough anyway.

This shade has been partially ripped out, and this little bottom shade thingie doesn't close all the way. So we'd have to get that fixed or we'd let the bugs in if we wanted to open the window.

There's a crack in the corner. We'd probably just paint over that.

Here's the closet.

It's pretty big. I wonder why there's a screen in here? I didn't notice one missing from any of the other windows.

Bedroom / Bathroom Suite

Let's take a peak into this bedroom / bathroom suite. This bedroom is roughly 11 and a half feet by 10 feet, not including the nook.

If you step further in, you can see the third window. These windows overlook the courtyard.

The windows surround an irregularly-shaped nook that's about 3 feet 6 inches by 4 feet. It's just big enough for a small desk or a chest of drawers.

I wonder why they put packing tape around the window sill. Sita pulls it away to discover a small draft. She tells me the owners should have just sealed the window. Oh well. We can do that.

Dust yourself off and turn around. Now you're facing the bathroom and the closet is to the right.

Let's check out the closet. What's that in the corner on the floor?

Ruh roh. There appears to have been a leak. The storage closet is on the other side of the wall. We'll investigate that later.

Here's the bathroom.


Yup. It's a tub alright.