Our Apartment

We live on fourth floor but the locals call it the third. The ground floor is zero, not one. It has five bedrooms and three bathrooms. The floor is tile, the ceiling has crown molding, there are ceiling fans in three of the bedrooms, and the kitchen counters are granite. We have a stove and a washing machine. The north and south bedrooms each have two windows on different walls. All the rooms are bigger than in most American houses. In the bathrooms there are more hot/cold knobs than there are faucets. Better too many than not enough, right?
The stairs and stairwell walls are granite and the elevator has no inner door. That means that while the elevator is moving you can reach out touch the stationary wall as you rush past. Don’t worry, everyone still has all their fingers and toes.