My Brattleboro Landing Pad

Here’s the “great room” of the apartment where I landed here in Brattleboro.

Since I’ve lived in a variety of neat spaces over the past decade including a travel trailer, a yurt, a backyard cottage, and four tiny houses on wheels (in two different tiny house communities), people have been asking me where I’m living these days. Three weeks ago when I arrived in Brattleboro I landed at a furnished apartment that was created in the home of a friend-of-a-friend. In Portland, OR this would have been called a Carve Out Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU), but here it’s known as an apartment-in-home.

When my friend-of-a-friend bought this property years ago it was more house than she and her son needed, so she worked with Brattleboro Area Affordable Housing’s Apartments-In-Homes program to turn two bedrooms and a bathroom into a three room apartment. With door that separates these rooms from the rest of the house, an exterior entrance, and the addition of a kitchenette it’s a sweet little living space.

Here’s the landing pad of my Brattleboro landing pad. A spot for coats, boots, mittens, bags.

The apartment is accessed with its own separate entrance with a little stoop. When you walk in you land in the great room where’s a Landing Pad to hang coats and switch from boots to slippers. (This reminds me, I really ought to write a post about landing pads…) There’s a daybed that serves as the sofa, a rocking chair, and a dining table and chairs.

Here’s the kitchenette, the dining table, and the cat, happily snuggled in the rocking chair.

The kitchenette, which shares a water wall with the bathroom, includes a two burner cooktop, a microwave, a toaster oven, and an electric kettle. With the addition of my Instant Pot it’s a perfectly workable kitchen (though now that I’ve been doing a little more baking recently I miss my Breville Mini Smart Oven!) The 3/4 bath has a shower, toilet, and pedestal sink. The bedroom is giant and sunny with a desk, dresser, closets, built-in storage, and a king sized bed. It’s so well-appointed and it’s been a great place for me to land as I get my bearings here.

Here’s the bedroom with a desk, a dresser, and a king-sized bed.

Serendipitously, my next place (which I’ll likely be switching over to sometime around December) is also an Apartment-In-House, so stay tuned for more on that...