Through the Seasons

House Tour – Come Inside

I didn’t want to continue the tour of our home until we are settled in and it’s clean and ready for pictures.  Then I realized it would never happen so here we go…

The houses on this compound were built (well, supervised at least) by the IMB (International Mission Board – in America) so it doesn’t have an African design and so it won’t look very unfamiliar to you.  As you saw from the outside we don’t live in a mud hut or anything close to it.

When you walk in the front door you walk into our utility room where the sinks for handwashing are and the washing machine and the broom/dustpan and the – junk – not really the first room you want someone to see but nevertheless that’s what it is.  Because of that entrance Jonathan thinks of this as the back door.  Because it’s where everyone enters I think of it as the front door.  We have a lot of confusion sometimes like when he says “lock the back door” and I go to “my” back door to lock it and realize he meant “his” back door.  Anyway…so here it is:

Here’s the front/back door.  It has screen on it to keep the bugs out.  There are two bolts on the inside and one on the outside and we use a big pad lock to secure it.  There is also a solid door outside that closes over this one.

Here’s the utility room.  We still have stuff in there we’re returning to the landlord.  You can see the red tub used to take laundry to/from the outdoor closeline.  Mama Imanueli’s apron is hanging on the indoor closeline over the washing machine and the dogs leashes are hanging on a hook to the right.  Yep, pretty sight, huh?

I was going to take you into the kitchen as well but the baby woke up and doesn’t like to sit at the computer – or anywhere for that matter.