moving in

Finally, we moved to our own house last Tuesday, after all the fixing, cleaning and filling in the house done in quite a while. We’ve never had experienced in managing a house before, which we thought that 2 or 3 weeks was enough to prepare it before we move it. Turn out, it took almost 2 months! Actually, up to now, the house still needs some fixes and cleanings; however Aco told me that the house should be a living thing, it will grow as we do, it won’t be ready, clean and perfect if we don’t live in it.
Our small but cozy house is a double-deck 75m2 Japanese-style house, 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. All the bedrooms are on the second floor, one bathroom on the first and the other on the second. We painted the living room with broken white, one bedroom with light green and another one with cappuccino brown. Our kitchen was planned to be light orange, a very warm orange as shown in the brochure. But the paint came out differently on the wall. Shinny bright orange. It is so bright, even when the light is turned off during the night, you can still see. Never trust the brochure. We repainted with light green.
The house is located in Karawaci, Tangerang, 20 km west of Jakarta. When there is no traffic jam, it is only 20 minutes drive (with 100km/hr) from Central Business District (Semanggi). However, during the peak hours, 7am-10am and 5pm-7pm, it can take 1.5-2 hours drive! So, better avoid those hours if you like to visit us.
Our house is in an estate that is developed by Lippo group. The neighborhood is well managed by the town management. Our neighborhood is clean, quiet and secure (hopefully!). It also provides all the facilities such as shopping mall, school, hospital, transportation, not to mention abundance of food stores and cafes. One thing that Aco and I like very much is to have a cup of morning coffee at Coffeebean which is located on the side road in front of UPH. Aco said, it reminds him of Harvard…