Virtual Tour

I promised long ago that I would publish some pictures of our apartment - here they are, finally!

We live upstairs in the church. When the building was constructed in 1928, our apartment was the parsonage. During the war, the pastor would go to the train station and pick up all the German immigrants, bring them back to the church, give them a meal and a place to sleep, and help them find a job. Some of those people are still faithful members of our congregation to this day!
After a number of years, the congregation bought the house next door to the church and used it as a parsonage so the upstairs space could be used for meeting rooms and Sunday school classrooms. About 2 years ago, it was renovated back into a living space.

Here is the view looking in our "front door"
Our kitchen was a hallway. I'm pretty sure this is not legal, but whatever man. Turning left at the fridge, you will come to the main hallway. (I'm standing in the bedroom doorway looking down the hall.)When you turn right off the main hallway, you find our bedroom.

We overlook the back alley, complete with garbage and barking dogs. You will notice the radiator: in the winter, when the heat comes on, it bangs and clangs and makes all kinds of horrible noises that wake us up at 3 am.

Beside the radiator, Dixie has her kittee hammock. She spends many a lazy afternoon lounging in her window bed. A family of crazy birds have built a nest in our air conditioner - now that the heat doesn't come on, we need something else to wake us up at a rediculous hour, so the birds take care of that. It also keeps Dixie busy - she keeps an eye on the birds and the squirrels that run along the power lines outside the window.

To the right of the bedroom you will find the living room.

Again overlooking the back alley, but it is nice to have some natural light because of the dark fake-wood panelling. The furniture is new, which is nice. Also note the Jesus paintings above the couches - a must have for any church. We have a small tv on the stand on the right side of the photo. A tv in the dining room!

This is looking the other way (taken from standing in front of the windows).
The storage room is actually just a gateway for the mice to get in from the attic. Moving back out to the main hall, the bathroom is on the left:

The bathroom was totally re-done in the renovation, so it is great. Across the hall from the bathroom is a storage closet and a door to the attic (ooooo...the attic!) The attic used to house German immigrants and Sunday school classrooms, but now it is a Christmas decoration and offering envelope graveyard. One of the rooms in the attic is actually quite nice - it has big windows that are high up in the bell tower.

At the far end of the hall is the den, which used to be the Pastor's study.

Aside from the various sources of noisy-ness and the microscopic kitchen, we have really enjoyed living in the church. The congregation respects our space and privacy, and it makes for a super-quick commute!

So that's it for this episode of MTV Cribs: Windsor Edition. Hope you'll tune in again soon for another blog entry on something equally exciting!