in today's video
we're going to show you around our apartment
hello welcome to german george come and have a look around our house
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it's our dining room table it came with the apartment i just got some dime things
um from ikea nathan very kindly bought me a singapore flower
which we only have to water once a week and somehow i've managed to keep it alive which is
good for me this is george's little play area that we've got set up for him these bookcases
are from ikea but they were 20 dollars each which is about 12 pounds so they've just come in really
handy with it to break up this space bought a gas of our family we've got some pretty cool plants
whose house is this
if you've watched our first video you'll know that the couch underneath here is very worn so nathan
found some pretty cool prints here that we ordered from lazada they came after about a week we're
about 20 30 machine washable so we've washed these quite a few times and again i think it just adds a
little bit of colour a little bit of vibrancy cushion covers we've got those also from ikea
these lamps i love these lamps we got from the salvation army by 35
each in ikea right now they're 75 so we've got a real good bargain there
nathan had a splurge and got george his own
cool dinosaur chair so that we're not using the aircon a lot we bought some stand-up fancies
kind of help keep the breeze coming through a lot of the time we've got the doors open we've
got the windows up and we've got the fans going sweating it out and enjoying it for what it is
this is george's bedroom we managed to get some really good bargains from salvation army including
these form letters which have given us quite a lot of entertainment whilst we've been in our mini
lockdown this week our bedding comes from ikea again some really good stuff see you can hear he's
absolutely loving his toys is he okay yes still alive awesome artwork done by a friend back in
the uk and nathan had it commissioned all parents out there will know about blippi i used to get
a car rug this anybody remembers this micro machines this was my brother's and he's very
kindly let george have it so when you open it all up there's lots of cars and things that keeps him
nice and entertaining little storage boxes as well from ikea and george's little school uniform
i'm really happy seems to really like his bedroom he's able to get in and out and
the air comes really good whose bedroom is this come come what is that this is george's bedroom
more interested in the kitkat
this is the office space this is the desk that was here originally if you can remember
nathan managed to lower the legs and then we just picked up small items from around the place this
was originally in our bedroom and i've just kind of stolen i've interrupted nathan's man space
because there's quite a lot of school work that i'm having to do really in the evening time
this is my little area nathan decided to treat himself and in the evenings he'll have some man
time and he bought himself a world atlas out of lego so he's been doing it in small
sections gets his tunes on in here this is what the lego will look like whilst it's finished
is it telephone i say hello hello i'm gonna give to daddy
this is our bedroom we brought our bedding from the uk this is from tk maxx we've got these cool
lights from ikea nathan's really quite good on lighting and has changed a lot of our bulbs from
the normal light like mellow yellow lights we had some of these left over from my bathroom
so we just thought that we would put them here i think we've got this wonderful space here where
the table was we're not quite sure what to do with that yet just using the balcony at the minute for
drying our clue when we first moved in we have thought about sharing this wardrobe space
but as you can tell nathan has been um moved gently into his man room to put his belongings
so these are the claws that i've got with me i do have more things in new zealand but new
zealand's currently in a lockdown also so i can't get any of that stuff with me next i'll show you
my bathroom which is by far one of my favorite pieces in the house
welcome to my bathroom nathan very kindly has built me this floral wall i saw it whilst we
were in ikea and i was like i have to have one sometimes i'll come in here and have a bath myself
or i'll let george have a bath it's just about long enough for me to fit in which is fabulous
we've just taken off the curtain the shower rail i think it's the most girls dream is
that to have your own bathroom and have everything laid out the way that you want
it's a really nice private space which has a working mum to an almost three-year-old
you can lock the door and you can be in peace for five or ten minutes
whilst you fall down the youtube hall and nobody realizes that you're missing
our bathroom we are toilet training george at the mini and we're very lucky that we've more
successful than we are not successful so we've got him a little stool and i just bought this from
mr diy a great shop if you are new to singapore and a friend told us about it it's much cheaper
than ikea it's like a pound shop and it has everything for really really cheap
branded stuff as well george will just get himself up on the toilet and get himself out
welcome to our kitchen we do use it quite a lot giving us a little bit of time to figure
out how to get our food where to get it from the problem is i guess that when you come home after
work and it's 32 degrees there's no real through breeze here outside through this window when you
have it open is everybody's aircon units so it tends to be really really warm in the kitchen so
i'm sweating now and if the pans was on and all the heat was on i would just be dripping sweat
this is a really good thing that nathan bought as well this um the water here in singapore is
usually quite clean but nathan bought a filter system so we can drink the tap water now so
when it's blue we just put our cup under and that gives us water or we also have
a brita filter that we keep in the fridge so we've got ice cold water which you need because
it's boiling and then i'll take you through to show you our yard area
so what we've noticed is once you're in here the smell from other people's cooking is delicious
our washing machine we keep our cleaning kit out here we got this bar installed so we can hang our
washing up from here the helpers room or the bomb shelter we just store stuff in here is our rubbish
shoot we have discovered that you're not allowed to put glass in there because somebody actually
goes into the rubbish bins and cleans them out so we've now got a recycle bin for all the glass
um and then cardboard which nathan takes out every couple of days downstairs and then our
normal rubbish we just bag every night because of insects and things like that we do have geckos and
you'll find that ants if they get a whiff of any sugar they'll be straight into your house
welcome to our balcony this is a really good space so last video we talked about how we were going to
child proof the balcony and we did actually go ahead and get an invisible grille fitted
we got three quarts and we ended up going with a company that was recommended by our security guard
and in total i think the cost was 1100 and they came and cleaned up after themselves
and we're really quite happy with the whole thing it allows us again to have all these doors open
and a real peace of mind that george can have his own independence and privacy so can we
and we don't have to worry about any issues in terms of safety nathan did buy this plastic
grill just to stop george from putting anything through the gaps we just need to now get some
plants or kind of upgrade the furniture and try and make it a really nice livable space
so there you have it our apartment and a grand tour we're really delighted and happy to have
this as a home as you can see at daytime and at that time it's a really nice place to live
it's flat it's quiet it's family-friendly we've got a bus stop at the top of the road which is
a five-minute walk 10 minutes in that direction we've got an mrt supermarket that little buddhist
temple in the background is where george's school is so we've been really fortunate
nathan did a fantastic job in finding this place for us and we're really happy to call this place
at home for two years uh in next week's video i'll talk you through ten tips that you need to do or
will find helpful perhaps when you're looking for accommodation here in singapore with children
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