HOME SWEET HOME

This is the outside of our new home here in Saudi Arabia. It is much more house than we were expecting. Those are date palm trees in front of the house, the one on the right is loaded with about 5 bunches of dates. Mike is hoping to get them harvested for us. When you enter the door the first thing is the large living room on the right. Right now it is furnished with Aramco Furniture. As you can see this furniture is from the 70's. It feels a bit like a cabin in the woods but works fine until our shipment comes.

On the left inside the door is the dining room. It is plenty big enough for our table and hutch. I will be glad when I finally get to put my furniture in here.

Behind the dining room is the kitchen. It is so much bigger than the one in the apartment. I do like it. Not much in there right now. We get very few dishes supplied here but we are making do, more on that later.

Off the kitchen is a family room. We plan to put a loveseat, two chairs and my computer in there.

There are three bedrooms and 2 1/2 baths. The master bedroom is quite large, with avery large walkin closet. We have plenty of room for our bedroom furniture and also my glide rocker here in this room.

One of the extra bedrooms with be Mike's office. We plan to continue renting a single bed from Aramco to keep in there. The other bedroom will be my sewing. It is large enough to hold my sewing machine, craft table (even opened up full) and the day bed. I am really excited about that.

Both bathrooms are quite large, with tub/shower combos, toilet, bidet, and double sinks. The master room had a linen closet it it.

We feel very lucky with the house we were assigned. We didn't expect quite that much space. We do enjoy the house a lot. We have been spending the last couple of weeks painting come of the rooms to make it more personal to us, more on that later.