Le Salon

In other words - our kitchen and livingroom, containing dining tables, two fridges, a microwave, a sink, a stove, a sofa and a TV. This place really reminds me of squat-life in Köpi. Here's why:

First of all the floor and everything else in this room is obscenely dirty. We have a sign above the sink, saying "please wash your dishes and put them into the cupboard". Not that anyone really reads it. To be honest - I don't even risk to dry the dishes right after washing 'cause the towels are dirty and stinky. So are the washing sponges. There's probably some forms of life inside them, I'm sure...

They close the water very often in this place because of repair works and afterwards you have to let it flow for about five minutes so it would stop being brownish in colour (for visual proof see the glass next to the boiler). If I want to wash the dishes with warm water I probably have to wait for it to flow even longer. The water is very coarse here and I clean the kettle all the time from the huge lumps of scale in the bottom of it. Our stove is electrical, which means not too good, plus it's all rusty and you can't see the numbers on the switches any more (I had to just guess before I got it right). We don't have any mugs or normal size glasses (everything is max 2 dl) and there are some small pieces and shards missing from most of the plates. Recently we ran out of sugar. One of the lamps doesn't work, so we are forced to cook in the darkness.
The walls in the salon are covered with yellowish wallpaper, which has become quite black in some places. We asked if we could repaint it, but were not allowed so we just covered the walls with huge drawing paper and painted on that. Now we have orange-yellow amateur art hanging on the walls. Well, it's better than before (see the background of the pic).

Our miserable corner-sofa is blue (or at least used to be), extremely old, full of concavitys and stains, it doesn't really hold together any more and I can't say it's too comfortable. We found a needle sticking out from it a few days ago. The television remote control works from eminently close distance only; the older than ancient VCR (that couldn't even read semi-speed recorded tapes) gave up on us in the middle of a movie and has not recovered. I think we lost it...

Of course there are also nice things about our livingroom: it's a place where we can all sit together sometimes and watch TV or cook. The fridges seem to still function and that's a good thing! I just hope we won't loose the second lamp because the evenings are getting very dark these days... :)