hey everybody welcome back to german george in today's video
we have moved into our new apartment and we're going to give you a tour of all of our rooms
and the nightmare that is moving in without your own car in 32 degree heat with children
foreign
hi welcome to our new home come on in
this is our living room slash dining room
table and chairs came with the apartment which is great because it would be
really quite difficult to get them up having good quality as well all of our things to unpack
this is bedroom number one so we were fortunate enough to get three bedrooms
originally we were only looking for two and we're going to designate as george's bedroom very kindly
a colleague from work had a spare bed that we've managed to borrow until we can find our own we've
got three wardrobes and they've got built-in drawers which is good and i think yeah they've
left behind a table and a lamp so that can just get you started might end up being some of my
clothing here no doubt i'm thinking jungle themed but ikea's got some wonderful ideas
our second bathroom this is really modern and quite clean and fresh
a lot of the older condos that we were interested in that were older they were
really really old school tip for you when house hunting we always went in here and tested the
showers to make sure what's the pressure like and then for nathan to go in because he's the
taller of the two just make sure he would fit in the shower this is a really good one
speed
it's got lots of good storage in here there's glass shelves
here there's shelves there too clean clean clean
this will be our second bedroom and office slash study for nathan the apartment came with this
dodgy well-used shall we say table got a really nice view here which would be nice to work from
i think when we came in here we were under quite a stressful time i came home from work at five and
as you know if you if you've watched the videos we had to sign the contract by 6 30. we were looking
for a place that we could move into immediately probably would have asked for the walls to be
painted there's small markings on them but saying that we do have a sun and there's no way that
these walls are going to stay away for the two years that we are here storage over here because a
lot of these condos or apartments are really small that having storage like this is really helpful
you can hide everything as well so you're kind of maximizing all your space i'll show you now our
bedroom we've got our own private outdoor areas in the evenings we can
have this door open have a nice breeze the flooring's a little bit dated but no problem
and this is what our previous tenants had up they put the bamboo up and then this to
stop their children from climbing we are still trying to figure out what to do with
our balcony to george perfect this is another little cool feature that um comes with our room
this is our secret private bathroom
so hot today so this setting is a little bit dated it's comfortable wow
so now if you just have a look here and we've put a blanket over the top and to just kind
of hide the the warmness we're going to try to source some softer cushions or a cover and they
got them from ikea the table and the light came with the apartment as well i think that they look
like something from star wars reminds me of darth vader i'm going to replace those with something
more modern a little bit more kind of wood and lightweight so this all came with the apartment
all works i'm told not that we've watched television for about two
weeks because we've been super busy and then we've got our balcony outdoor alien
this is our balcony a really good um space a nice view as you can see the area that we've
chosen all of the buildings are quite low rise and there's big houses and so it's quite family
orientated it's nice and quiet and it's safe and we also have um right over there is the sea
not that we can see it but we can see the cranes and things like that at night time
so we're hoping that we'll get some kind of breeze coming through as the time goes on there was to
be another lockdown which you never know do you and here in singapore you have to wear your masks
outside unless you're doing vigorous exercise which i'm very unlikely to do then having a
balcony is the one place you're allowed to sit outside and not wear a mask so it was really
up there on our list of requirements a shower that nathan's able to be in and move around in
and for me it was having an outdoor space that's not too cramped you know i can sit outside
and then unpack all of our things find child care and nathan's already sussed out that there's a
local supermarket that we're going to go and visit today and get a few little little bits and bobs
this is our kitchen a really good size this condor is 14 years old and out of all of the apartments
and condos that we viewed this is probably one of the more modern and well-kept kitchens that
would interview the kitchen's really nice it's got some windows so we can get the air and the
breeze from outside there's a lot of storage as well and we've got covers that come out like this
and the previous owners have children too a french couple so they do unfortunately have these and
child safety blocks so i'll probably try and figure out a way to take those
off and because we don't need them with george but if you look here
there's so much storage in space a lot of people you'll find in singapore don't actually do cooking
and that's because the food here if you eat locally at the hawker centres and if
you can find the right supermarkets you can get groceries quite cheap so it's really common for
people not to cook at all one of the apartments that we actually went to view i think it was the
and the gentleman had never cooked at all the kitchen had not been touched in the two
years that he'd been there so for us because george is of that age and come up to three and
um we need to lose a little bit of lockdown pounds and we know we probably will utilize this kitchen
hopefully the fridge with cold coronas which we're gasping and dying for right now if you can see the
sweat dripping off me this is where the gas is covered a little bit so we'll have to contact
our agent or representative with a list of things to try to get that sorted we
do have a 31 day grace period so if there's any problems that we find and we've found quite a few
then we'll be taking pictures and then send that across but if you're moving in and you're looking
to do that just check with your agent or if you're not using an agent the representative
for the landlord have you got a 31 day grace period in case there are any incidents or
once you move in any things that go wrong and find out who's responsible for paying for that
so we've got a reasonable size to the freezer and then this takes you out into our yard area
this is called a yard here is normally in singapore condors or apartments where you do
your washing so that you can get the heat for your clothes to dry that's for ventilation
reasons so we've got our balcony and we've got this area here so if we have both doors open
we'll be able to get some kind of fresh breeze through this is our shoot for our rubbish
and so because we're four floors up we don't have to worry about like cockroaches or ants
now another interesting thing to show you
this is a bomb shelter that is usually used for either storage or something else that we've
learned is quite common in singapore is for people to have a helper condos that were made after 9 11
had these bomb shelters in them singapore is famous for being a really safe place to live
a touchwood not that there is any in here but most people have not had to use these it's very common
and when you're have something to have this and they'll call it the maids or the helpers room and
this is what it is so we're just going to use that for storage unless nathan or georgia really bad
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