The New Homestead

Our dream home it is not.  But for the next two years, it's home.

Welcome to Hannam Village.

 In all fairness to the Army, Hannam Village recently underwent a major renovation and the upgrades are nice.  I appreciate my new dishwasher and my 'hard wood' floors.  But I can't help but be a tad homesick for our 3 bedroom townhouse in Maryland.  We're living apartment style in 1100 sq feet and you hear and smell everyone around you.  Hannam is gated and has its own gym, pool, playgrounds, grill/picnic areas, baseball field, library, and mini commissary. Although small, the commissary is very well stocked and only a five minute walk from our building!  Hannam is not on post like most military housing.  It's a mile or two away in Itaewon.  Itaewon is a very westernized area where almost everything is in English and you can find any kind of food you want. Mexican, Italian, KFC, desserts-it's all there!  There's a shuttle that runs hourly to Yongsan and the subway is right outside the gate.

 Moving on! Follow me on a tour inside our simple home.  Please bare in mind that we have not received any of our furniture so the furnishings you will see is loaner furniture issued by the Army. Also, it's hard to get pictures of the full room since there are lots of narrow turns and odd angles to shoot from.  I tried to get as much in the shot as possible. :)

This is our living room and dining room (notice dining room table to the left). There is a porch attached to the living room that is enclosed with glass. 

Next is our kitchen which is in its own little hallway at the other end of the dining room table.  Our washer and dryer is also in the kitchen.  Michael has planked for you to demonstrate the width of our laundry room/kitchen.

 

Next is the hall bathroom.  Notice there is absolutely zero storage space with the exception of the medicine cabinet.  The shower isn't bad though.  Great water pressure, a lower bidet-like massager that resembles a sprinkler when its on, and built in glass shelves!  The toilet  has two buttons on it...one for um...'small' messes and one for 'larger messes.'

 

The flower tile isn't so bad and I especially like that the toilet paper holder has a built in magazine rack. Haha!

This is the master bedroom.  There are built in book shelves to the right. This room is actually bigger than it looks.  We moved the bed to the wall on the left to open things up a bit and it looks great.  More pictures to come once we receive our furniture shipment!

 The picture above is the two closets in the master bedroom. In between the dresser and closet is the entrance to the master bathroom.

 Notice how there's no tub? It resembles a cruise ship bathroom. :) This is where Michael gets ready in the morning.  But he uses the shower in the hall bathroom.  I'm not sure that we'll ever use the shower in the master bedroom!

 This is bedroom #2. Pretty uneventful.  And there's a smaller third bedroom that I didn't take a picture of. 

 The inside our our closets. Ummm...yeah.  Thankful we have ample drawers and extra closets in other rooms.

The hallway. Bathroom is the first door on the left. Master bedroom is second door on left.  Bedroom 2 and 3 are directly in front and on the right.

    And finally our view.  It's a tad hard to see the Olympic size swimming pool that our porch faces because there is a moving truck blocking it.  But it's there!  And we can't wait to use it in the summer time! 

 Speaking of moving trucks, everyday I watch moving trucks loaded with crates pull up to my building with everyone's household shipment but mine.  You have no idea how frustrating this is.  We have been living out of a suitcase since early January and we're ready to settle in!  We do have our express baggage which included DVDs, a TV, blu-ray player, kitchen stuff, sheets, and towels.  But we're ready for our furniture so this can finally start to feel like home!  I'll take new pictures once we receive our stuff! But for now, I'll leave you with this....(I couldn't resist-fierce, isn't he?...bahahaha!)