Saturday, November 12, 2011

And Then There Was Oakland

Well, not Oakland but right next door in Berkeley. Andi and I looked high and low around San Francisco but couldn't find a good apartment. The place either wasn't pet friendly or was in a bad neighborhood or wasn't close to the Bart(SF's train system). We decided to venture over onto the other side of the bay this past Monday and the first place we looked at we loved! Berkeley is a rich, little suburb of Oakland and is home to Berkeley College. Our place is in a really quiet, safe neighborhood, close to the Bart, grocery stores, and several little restaurants and shops.

View from the street. We originally thought it was the house but it's the apartments in the back. Of course it had to be raining the entire day so all of the photo's we took look grey!

Our place is the red circle.

The kitchen is quite big and has a mad amount of cupboard space.

The living room area. It's directly across from the kitchen.


The bathroom is bigger then it looks in these pictures. Currently its home to a small family of ants that will be leaving on Wednesday when the exterminator comes!


The bedroom had an amazing amount of light coming into it the first day we saw it. The rain and clouds that day make it look kinda dreary. The closet is huge and may just fit all of Andi's clothes. :P


We have a persimmon tree right outside in the yard...

...and our neighbors have a small lemon tree!

There is also a garden in the back that needs some love. I've already talked with my neighbor next door and we are going to revive it together. Should have some good stuff going in a couple of months.

6 comments:

  1. Nice looking place, well from the inside. Not too shabby. We will need updates on that sad little garden haha, and you will have to steal some lemons from the neighbor and send them and the persimmons (I have never tried them) out to me.

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  2. Ha ha. It is a sad, little garden! I'll make it nice though. As for persimmons, you should be able to find them at Whole Foods. However, I'll grab a couple and ship them with your gifts.

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  3. Nice place! It might be a blessing living a little farther away from the city. It looks spacious and clean. As for the garden, garden boxes aren't that bad. I have
    One just like yours in the picture in my yard. It's fabulous for all herbs and some vegitables but won't let roots grow very deep so some vegi's might not do
    To well.

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  4. Good call on the roots. I didn't think of that. I'm going to do some herbs on our small porch outside of our front door. Haven't really figured out what I want to put in the garden yet. Have to see what will grow in California winter!

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  5. How cold does it get I the winter in California.

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  6. That's a tricky question. It depends on where you are in California. Here where we are it can get down to 50 or 30 degrees at night. As for the day, it can get up to 50 or 70 degrees.

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