Our apartment is one of six in recently-renovated (2004) historic building. As is common for this sort of thing, the apartments had to be architected to fill up the existing space rather than the other way around. This is important because of its fundamental contribution to the existence of what we call “the media room.”
Back when the building was a multi-level store (I believe), there was an accounting office that sat on its own level, between the formal first and second floors of the building. As you walked up the back stairway, you’d stop on the landing leading to the office before continuing to the second story. When this most recent of renovations happened the lower stairs were removed and the accounting office became concatenated with one of the apartments — ours.
Like I said, media room. A place to get away from everything else and just play games, watch movies, or just make as much noise as possible.
One of the best parts is that thanks to said stairs, the media room walls are not adjacent to any other apartments; just with the (empty) business on the first floor.
Countless feet of cables.
There’s a whole box of assorted remotes waiting to jump in and take over for this one.
Considering my obsession over black gaming hardware, what’s with that spice Nintendo controller? Good thing it’s Abe’s favorite color.
I told you — black.
And some obligatory macro shots…
…of the ceiling light…
…the CD changer…
…and some candles.
PDF said:
Really? You don’t think we know what concatenate means?
They definitely did a fine job of turning your building into apartments.
23:29 on 07 Jan 2006
matches said:
I like that word alot; think of it as my means of emphasis.
And on the apartment subject, a lot of the renovated apartments I’ve looked at lately have been really impressive, like the Wausau East HS ones or some other assorted downtown condos.
It’s partially thanks to these guys, who luckily design better buildings than websites.
00:36 on 08 Jan 2006