600 Talbott refurbished

New vinyl flooring in dining room. Chandelier is on a rehostat. Cable for TV is beside kitchen cabinets. Mini-blinds on window facing street.

Vinyl in kitchen really brightens the room.

There is new cushiony shelf paper in all of the kitchen cupboards, the kind that keeps dishes from slipping in a motorhome.

There is a lazy susan in the corner cupboard between the stove and the sink.

On the right side of the sink is a deep corner cupboard. There are no drawers in the skinny space below the countertops under the sink nor above the corner cabinets below.

A fluorescent light above the double yellow porcelain kitchen sink is attached below a shelf. It plugs into a wall outlet. The wall switch is for the garbage disposal. Notice that the sink has a hose sprayer. Carl checked both drain strainers and the disposal plug to make sure the sinks held water--they do.

The plain beige carpet has been cleaned in the living room.

The carpet upstairs has that little fleck of brown and matches the plain beige carpet on the stairs. .This is looking from the top stair across the hallway into the smaller bedroom.

This is the carpet in the smaller bedroom. There's a closet to the left with bifold doors. The walk-in closet is right behind where I am standing. To the right is the window to the front of the apartment. (I am facing south.) The window has a scallop-bottom shade.

The walk-in closet has a pole on the left and a wire shelf on the right. 

The larger bedroom at the back of the apartment has two closets with bifold doors. Notice where cable for TV comes up through the floor. There are plastic mini-blinds on the back window.

This is the bathroom sink. If you want a pull-out makeup mirror, it would have to go above the towel bar.

You can see a bit of the vinyl in the bathroom. There is no light in the laundry closet, and Carl said he could attach a fluorescent light like the one in the kitchen to the bottom of that shelf because there is an electrical outlet behind the washer on the left.

There is a full-length mirror at the end of the hallway at the top of the stairs. I'm standing in the doorway to the larger bedroom, looking west. There is a bit of the bathroom door frame visible in the lower left of the photo. The smaller bedroom is to the left of the mirror. See how much brighter the upstairs is without that green carpet!

 This is the light fixture above the stairwell.

And here is that fixture lit up.

Here's the light fixture that is in both bedrooms. This is the smaller bedroom. The window is to the right.

 Here is your daybed in the larger bedroom along the west wall.

Now for the storage unit. This is the overhead door where you can unload. The plywood units are 10x12 to the left with a hallway running between them. Beside where I am standing are another two rows of units where the one for you is located. It's $50 per month.

Here is Rich Liekweg and Carl with the door to a unit open.

This is looking inside a 10x12 unit. They have individual padlocks (I assume provided) with keys.

To the left of the overhead door is the door to the entryway. You get a code to get in.

 This is the "office" area with AC/heat that would be $60 per month. It is roughly 19 x14. They built this to rent it as an office but haven't yet. It's finished just like a house. You'll need to let Peg Liekweg know which unit you want.

This is the door to the "office" area. It does not have as easy of access as the warehouse with the overhead door.

The side door to the right of the overhead door is always left unlocked. Inside and to the left is where the walk-in door to the warehouse is that you open with the code. The "office" is to the right once you get inside.

Touch table repair on Nov.2012

At Carrie Lane Chapman Catt Girlhood Home & Museum we had the software developers from Applied Art and Technology do some software updates in November. Now the table is operating perfectly, thanks to them and their instruction for me to install the proper cable after they left!

600 Talbott, #5

Here are photos of the apartment at 600 Talbott Street.
This is the front of the building with an arrow pointing to Apt. #5. Donna Newcomb’s apartment is on the left of the double doors that the two apartments share.

This is a view of the inside lobby, looking past the mailbox on the left to Donna’s apartment. Between the apartments is the stairwell to the basement where the furnace is.

Here’s the basement stairwell. Even they are really clean.

This is a view of the dining room inside the front door. The room is about 9' by 12'.

Stepping back a bit toward the kitchen, here is the dining room with a corner of the kitchen cupboards. The window has mini-blinds and faces the street on the west.

Here is the corner of the dining room by the kitchen. Straight ahead is where you might put your freezer in the dining room.

The kitchen has Amana appliances—refrigerator, ceramic top electric stove, and dishwasher. Notice the broom closet next to the fridge.

The countertops and backsplash are beige formica.  The carpet in the kitchen an dining room  is kind of a berber pattern in beige and tan.

The sink is harvest gold in color. You can install your own garbage disposal.

Going on around the kitchen to the right of the sink are the upper cabinets.

Below the cabinets between the kitchen and dining room is the dishwasher.

The half bath is beside the front door. It has a corner toilet and a sink. Not much space to turn around. There’s stone tile on the floor.

The hall closet is tucked under the stairs to the upper level. The half bath is to the left and the stairs are to the right. The kitchen is straight across from the closet.

This is a view from the living room to the dining room. The living room is probably 15' by 18'. In this photo door to the kitchen is to the right. The carpet in the living room is more of a short plush in beige.

 This is the thermostat in the living room.

This is from the kitchen doorway looking into the living room. The doors leading to the deck have vertical blinds. Cable TV hookup in almost every room is from Mediacom (no dishes allowed). But we bundle phone, Internet, and TV with free long distance to Canada.

Here is the view of Rock Run straight out the doors to the deck. Below is the workshop Kasischke built while he was building the apartments and the duplex across the street. The hospital uses it for a maintenance shed. The plywood seems kind of spongy, but Kurt Peterson said it is solid. I’d recommend indoor/outdoor carpet over it. you can have a grill out there.

This is looking toward Donna Newcomb’s deck.

This looks down the rest of the deck toward the hospital. They do move snow off the deck.

View from the deck to the apartment’s living room.

These are the stairs leading to the bedrooms upstairs. The living room is on the right. The hall closet is on the left.

Looking down the stairs into the hallway. The carpet is probably the same as in the living room. Handrail is on the right here, meaning it is on the left as you ascend the stairs.

At the top of the stairs, the hallway leading to the master bedroom has light green carpet. The stairwell is on the left. The second bedroom is on the right, and the bathroom is halfway down the hall on the right.

Master bedroom is on the back side of the building above the deck. It is probably 12' by 15'.  Notice that there is sort of a slope in the upstairs walls--notice the window frame.

There are double closets. The hall linen closet just outside in the hallway is huge.

Linen closet (on the right) in the hallway is across from the bathroom (on the left). Master bedroom is behind the photographer and second bedroom is to the left of the mirror.

Huge linen closet in the upstairs hallway. There are 3 shelves, and that board in the front of the bottom shelf is removable.

The washer and dryer are in a closet inside the bathroom on the left. The toilet and sink are straight through on the left behind the closet door.

The sink is marbled cream and gold. The carpet is a beige and white berber.

The oval mirror is a medicine cabinet.

The gold tub & shower stall has gold fixtures and glass doors.

The second bedroom is on the front side of the apartment. You can see the slope in the wall better here. This bedroom has a little darker green carpet and is about 12' by 12'.

The second bedroom has a walk-in closet plus another closet.

Second bedroom closet (and Kurt Peterson).

Closet door open to show depth.

View out second bedroom toward west (Talbott Street and duplex across street).

And here is a view of the new bridge over the Iowa River heading south.