Praha Procrastination.

Tour of Casa de Janine, written and photographed Praha January 21, 2009.

I’m working hard today, seriously. I don’t think I ever really worked this hard in college (or university I’ve found I need to clarify). But it’s a different kind of hard. And I’m actually doing my work.

But I have a few things I’d like to say, completely unrelated to work.

1. Front loading washing machines give me the heebie-jeebies.

No seriously. I’m sitting in my flat’s kitchen, which is more like a galley. And we’re lucky in the scheme of things, because we have a washing machine in our flat. But it’s a European one so it does smaller more economical loads, which is nice. The heebie-jeebies part comes in because of the super-speed at which the spin cycle occurs. It literally shakes the building. If you sit with your back against the wall and one of our neighbors runs their washer . . . it’s ridiculous! But when you’re in the kitchen, in the thick of the washing, it’s literally terrifying. It makes things fall off tables. Though that may because I have what I think is the spin cycle set to 1000. But I don’t understand how these silly European machines with their Celsius and whatnot work!

2. All this talk of laundry and kitchens made me realize that I haven’t put pictures of my amusing little flat up for public consumption. So here goes the world tour of Janine’s first Prague flat.


We’ll start with the kitchen. It’s plenty wide and has lovely orange—ish tiles that contrast well with the shade of cabinets, complete with etched “glass” (plastic) in the cabinets above the sink. Beyond those casement windows is the magical courtyard, which is actually quite pretty. It’s a magical courtyard because cars can be parked within it, but there is no actual garage door, instead, it is disguised as a snazzy double door with etched glass windows. I’m not being sarcastic here, I was seriously troubled for awhile about how the cars got in and out, until I noticed the mechanism at the top of the doors.


Note also, the sewing machine table used to store miscellaneous items. It has a sewing machine in it. Fantastic, seriously.


Next up is the living room. Note the color scheme, I like to call this peach and chartreuse, really gets the appetite going. And who doesn’t love Ikea chic!

And then there’s my flat mate’s door, which is really pretty, actually. Here:

Now to my atrium: It’s nice, because all of us have our own rooms, an Hannah and I (the only girls in the flat) have an entrance way into our bedrooms. Which is pretty neat.

Finally my bedroom: I’d like to point out, Mom, that I straightened before I snapped these photos. That the bed covered with stuff is like that because I am awesome and have no hooks for my jacket. Oh and the dresser that has open drawers, is like that because the floor.
The floor slopes down at an angle so the drawer’s stay that way, it’s fun to push them closed and watch as they slowly re-open of their own volition.

And to finish off, the sticker on the door to the kitchen. It’s glittery.



Dobry vecer!