Our Jungle Abode

If you´re wondering what the inside of a real Amazon house looks like, then you might have to keep wondering because our house looks like any other house you might actually see in the U.S. There are houses in the Amazon made from regional wood with roofs made from layered Bijoa leaves. And those houses are designed to float on water as the river rises and falls. But our ¨more traditional¨ house is located within a military housing community called the Air Force Villa, which houses Air Force officers and their families. I´ll put some pictures up of the Villa later, but for now, I´ll give you the tour of the house.

The house has 3 bedrooms (but we use one like a storage room because we have no garage) and two bathrooms (but only one is functional). We don´t own the house so we haven´t invested in many cosmetic changes in the house because they wouldn´t really be an investment. We´ve only done the bare minimum.  But basically, we adore our humble house in the jungle and we are glad to call it our first home together.

So I´ll start with the guest bedroom. just in case you´re planning on visiting......

Here is our bedroom. By the way, the house came with blue carpet, so that´s what we´re working with in the bedrooms. Yep, blue carpet.

Here is the bathroom, nothing too exciting in there.

Here is the living room/dining room combo.

And on to the kitchen. You´ll notice we are missing a stove and an oven...but not to worry, when we need to boil something we use the rice cooker, for cooking or grilling things we use the small electrical grill, and for baking we use our small toaster oven. I haven´t with a good old pot or pan in about 6 months.

There is a door in the kitchen which leads to the outside laundry area and the extra storage room and bathroom. They are kind of in a state of disaster so I´ll spare you the images.

Besides the untamed small back yard, that´s basically it. If you want to see more...you´ll just have to come here.