Home is Wherever I'm With You.

What's that you say? You want to know more about this place we live, the magical place of tire thievery? 

While I was out in California, Jamie had to come down to Providence to find us a place to stay for the 12 week internship he was due to start just after Memorial Day Weekend. The rental market is...interesting...with few options for subleasers and the lack of familiarity with the area made it that much more confusing. Lots of pic texts and links to craiglists back and forth with Jamie heading down one weekend to see the places in person. At the last second, he managed to find a one bedroom place that accepts dogs and had a parking spot (although, we may have wanted to consider a locked garage...).

4-unit building in College Hill.

We like the landscape architecture graduate student we're subleasing from and while every bone in my body wants to rearrange furniture, hang different things on walls, repaint, renovate the kitchen, install central air-conditioning (and on and on), I'm happy to have a comfortable place for our temporary home. It was pertinent to have an already furnished place as we're keeping our place up in Hanover and in no way did we want to move our furniture for such a short period of time (plus, I might have shaved all of Jamie's hair off if he made me pack everything up again so soon). 

Living room with back to front door and entertainment center.
I took the liberty of putting a high-class-slipcover on the sofa. 

It's roomy, already had cable/internet set up, and we're within a couple of blocks of the main row of businesses catering to Brown University and RISD students. The third story gives us lots of privacy from pedestrians and good light during the day.

He has all the necessary kitchen amenities (we're not talking william-sonoma specialty items here), but the combination of restaurant deprivation this past year in New Hampshire and soaring New England heat and humidity, we're not exactly getting a lot of use from this room. The blender (his) and coffee maker (ours) are the most highly used appliances. Speaking of, anyone have good cold blended recipes?

On warm nights, we run the window air-conditioning unit while keeping the fan directed on our faces.

Stuff/Art on mantle=not ours.
Doesn't that mantle guy look like the Project Runway winner from last season?

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And there you have it. Our temporary home in Providence, Freaking Rhode Island (FRI)!