The apartments are basic but comfortable: 775 square feet, with two or three bedrooms, concrete floors, a washing machine, and a stove, a refrigerator and a sink in each kitchen.
Cover the floor where your washing machine is located once you've determined that your model has a drive belt.
"Are you O.K.?" "Are you O.K.?" At her lowest point, my mother spent a full day on the laundry room floor, slumped against the washing machine, unable to move.
I remember vividly the day I got my first New Zealand passport, as a spherical-faced 16-year-old, sitting on my kitchen floor, leaning against the washing machine and slowly turning the pages of this exotic document.
Our insurance company has offered us a sum of money that will cover relaying the floor in the area around the washing machine and the downstairs loo, but the floor is the same all through the ground floor of the house which is open plan.
The cabinet doors hung off their hinges, the sink didn't work, the hole in the floor was blocked by a washing machine.
One bedroom flat wanted close to Massachusetts General Hospital (max 15min by foot) or close to the T, fully furnished with washing machine, above ground floor and with parking space.
Most of us put our washing machine on the floor, but elevating it to a more ergonomic height offers storage space beneath and makes it more comfortable to load.
Other pairings have turned out to be mismatches of expectations; one formerly well-off Syrian family expressed disappointment that its apartment was a second-floor walk-up and lacked a washing machine.
For the past six years, Karen, 18, and Michelle DeJesus, 15, their mother and their father, Ralph DeJesus, 54, have shared a modern two-bedroom apartment abutting the Bronx Zoo, with a washing machine and hardwood floors.
