3-Bedroom Apartment Tour in Qingdao, China: Rent & Real Life

where the sofas are. This is our sofa area. Here you go. Here you go. This is our sofa area. I love it because it's very bright, especially during the day. We have these big windows and a balcony, so a lot of natural light comes in. So, this sofa set, as you can see, includes a sofa itself, a love seat, and an armchair. I really like it. It's very convenient just to hang out here during the day. So, if you watched my other apartment hunting video here in China, you could see that they had a different sofa set here, but it was very kind of dirty, and I

believe the previous owners had pets, so it was all covered in fur. So, we asked them to kindly change it, and they agreed, and they bought a new one for us, and I really love it. So, this This is a new sofa set that they provided for us. Yeah, and a nice wooden table with lots of storage here. You can see there are so many shelves. There's playroom. There's playroom, right? Yeah. Yeah, we're going to go Aryan says that there is a playroom. We're going to go there very soon. Yeah, and there is a mirror here. here. Just to mention that this apartment was

fully furnished, fully furnished, and we almost didn't buy any furniture here, so everything was provided for us. And please make sure to watch this video till the end, because at the end, I'm going to tell you how much we pay for this apartment. Okay, so we have a mirror here. mirror here. Super convenient. I like the place where we put it. we put it. And at first, And at first, we thought that this is a TV, but it's not a TV, it's a screen for the projector. So, this is the projector screen. screen. And I guess we just need to buy the projector itself,

and just use it to watch movies. watch movies. Yeah, it looks really nice. Okay, and the window that leads to the balcony is really big. really big. Lots of light, and the curtains Actually, they also changed the curtains because they were not very new, and yeah, they just I like the color of these curtains. of these curtains. Look nice. Look nice. And if you close the curtains, it gets really dark. So, these curtains don't let any light at all into the apartment. Okay, let me just close the curtains, and I'll show you the lighting here in the room. It's

really nice. Just a moment. Okay. Okay. So, now watch. I'm going to turn off the light. light. And one thing I really like is the lighting. The The ceiling lights can actually change. So, at night, we can make it warmer and more cozy, or brighter if we want. Yeah, so you can see how we can change the lighting here. the lighting here. I really like it. Lots of light, lots of natural light, and also at night. Yeah, you can see how I change the lighting. And at night, you can make it really bright, or just reduce it as much as you need. Now, every room has

the air conditioning. So, this is the control panel. panel. We We will collect will collect the Christmas tree the Christmas tree so soon. Yes. so soon. Yes. Aryan says that we still have a Christmas tree here, and we will collect it very soon, right? But Aryan didn't let me to collect it, so he just told me to keep it here. I wanted to do so, right? But you didn't let me. Why? Because Because I like the Christmas tree. You like the Christmas tree. Okay, let it be. let it be. It doesn't bother me that much. Okay, so this is the control panel where you

can turn on and off the air conditioning system, and also it can blow the warm air. You just need to change the mode, change the mode, and make your apartment really hot. Yeah, so I turned off for now. And also, there is a central heating system for winter, so we didn't need to use the hot air to warm up the apartment during the winter months. We just used the central heating system, and it was really warm. The floor was warm and nice. Right next to the living room is our dining area. So, this is our dining area here. And again, the furniture, everything

was here. The apartment was furnished. And the thing that they changed are the cushions on the chairs. So, we asked them, and they were very kind to change the cushions. So, we have this wooden dining table with six chairs. chairs. It's pretty simple, but perfect for everyday meals. Yeah, who is this here? So beautiful. Mommy polar bear. Mommy polar bear. Yeah, Aryan is very excited to show you his playroom. Just 1 second, okay? okay? I like that it's close to the kitchen, so it's very practical this way. And yeah, this is where we usually sit, eat, and

talk, right, Aryan? And talk. And talk. Talk a lot, right? A lot. Do you like this I don't eat and talk. Yeah, we shouldn't eat and talk at the same time, right? Yeah. So, do you like this area? Do you like to eat here? Yeah. Yeah, so this is our dining area, and finally, we are moving to which room? Which area? Back area. What is that called? What is that area called? that area called? Playroom. Yeah, this is Aryan's playroom. We are going to show you now. Aryan is so excited. Look. Yeah, Aryan says it's a king turtle. Look at this beautiful playroom.

Wow. Let's see. Let's see. What do we have here? Let's go to see. So, Yeah, Aryan has a stone. Okay, so here we have Aryan's bike, right? Aryan's bike, right? This is my motorcycle. Oh, motorcycle. Yes, sorry. And this is a house. Who lives in this in this house? Kangaroo? Who lives in this house? Simpsons. Simpsons. Simpsons. Simpsons. Yeah, so all these things we bought by ourselves ourselves for this house. We bought this house. So, this house belongs to the Simpsons family. family. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Welcome to our house. Yeah, this house I

really like it. It's so cool. so cool. We just like We just like children, yes. We just like to sit here and read some books. What else do you do here in this house, Aryan? What else? A boy. Yeah, this is a boy. Yeah, and just play and rest. Very cozy, right? Yeah, so this is Aryan's playroom. playroom. We also bought some organizers. Yeah, this is number 10. We also bought some organizers, some organizers, and just to organize his toys here. Right? So, we have some animals in one bin, bin, and the birds are here. What other animals? animals? Yeah, so we

have some fruits and vegetables. vegetables. Yeah, and this is our Easter basket, right? The Easter is coming soon. When we moved in, we asked the owner to provide us um just simple working desk and this is what they gave us. We cannot work at this desk because it's not very convenient. It's very beautiful. It's wooden and it has so many shelves here just to store some things. things. But we don't use it. We just keep it here as a storage unfortunately because it's not very convenient. storage Yeah, as a storage. It's not like a working desk I would say.

It's just a fancy desk. Yeah, and here I just made a nice cozy corner for reading books books and relaxing. and relaxing. I really like this play area that we made for Arian. made for Arian. He has lots of room to run around and just to put his toys. And this is the view that Arian gets. He has probably the best view in this apartment, right? apartment, right? So the view to the sea. It's extremely beautiful. It's extremely beautiful. And you can see a small island over there right in the middle of the sea. It's extremely beautiful. It's extremely

beautiful. The sea on one side and the mountains are on the other side. I'll show you the mountain view from our other bedroom. other bedroom. You can see that better from that bedroom. bedroom. Yeah, so this is the view in Arian's playroom. playroom. And And this is his playroom area. Arian, do you like your playroom? Can you tell the people? Arian is busy counting his toys. But what I'm really happy about is that I bought these organizers because his toys were all over the place, but now they're just in one spot and he can easily pull them out. Can you

pull out the bins by yourself? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so Arian can pull out the bins and now Arian learned how to clean up the toys by himself and he puts all the toys into the proper bin. So we are very proud of him. So you just saw our playroom and the living room. Now let's go to the balcony. So here on the left you see one door. Yeah, I'm coming. So here is one door goes to the left. This is the master bedroom. We are going to show you this master bedroom the last one. It's very beautiful, so keep watching this video till the end. Also I'm going to tell

you how much this apartment costs at the end of the video. of the video. And And when you turn right you see two more doors. I'm coming now. So when if you turn right you see two more doors. This one leads to the bedroom and to the washroom. But first we go to the balcony. balcony. Let's go to the balcony. So this is our balcony and we actually use it a lot. We have the washing machine machine and the dryer here and they are stacked which saves place. Actually in other apartments that we did on apartment hunting they didn't have a dryer. They only had a

washing machine. But having a dryer really helps a lot especially during winter when it's not too sunny outside. It really helps a lot and yeah, it does the job. And also there is a place to hang clothes. We just made some some space to hang our clothes here because we didn't want to make it very busy in the living room. So we just decided to hang it here on the balcony. on the balcony. And also this is a dryer. I really like it how they make it here in China. I'm going to show you how it works actually. It broke. Yeah, cuz this one this thing was not

coming out. So when you turn it it goes up it goes up and you hang your clothes here. But it's a little bit broken now, so we need to ask somebody to fix it. So sometimes when I don't want to use the dryer I just hang the clothes here to dry naturally with the sunlight. So howling So howling and roaring. Yeah, so howling and roaring. We don't have any wolves in this apartment. No dogs, no wolves, no bears. It's just my son howling and roaring, so don't be scared, okay? And honestly I really love the sunlight here. It's very bright during the day. And now

let me show you the view that we get from the balcony. This is a closed balcony and I really appreciate that they have some safety rails here. This is perfect when you live with a child. This is the view we get. So most of the view goes to the neighbor neighbor buildings. buildings. Yeah. Yeah. And the windows are not very clean. But if you look to the left you can see the sea here. the sea Yeah, the sea view. Let's open the window. open the window. Maybe I can open this net here. Yeah, so this is the sea view we get from the balcony. And if you look

straight you see the yacht club over there. Actually I recorded a video for you about the island that we live on. So we are living on the Starlight Island and which is surrounded obviously by water by the Yellow Sea. And yeah, so And yeah, so we have some beautiful hotels right beside us and you can see the yacht club. Beautiful yachts are over there. over there. It's a very beautiful place. So if you haven't watched my video about the Starlight Island yet I highly recommend you to do so. So this is the view we get from our apartment and the fresh air

coming from the sea is just something special. And the sea view. So it takes like about maybe maximum 5 minutes minutes for us to reach to the sea and here you can see the promenade. And we can just bike around the island or just take a walk. Okay, we showed you our balcony. Now let's go to the bedroom. So this is the three bedroom apartment. We are going to show you the first bedroom. We go back inside the living room living room and turn not right yet because on the right is our master bedroom that I'm going to show you at the end of this video. video.

And now we turn left. So we turn left and open the door. So this is our one of our bedrooms. This one is very simple. So So Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Arian loves to jump on this bed very much. Yeah, people look. Yeah, people look. Look, people look how Arian jumps. He wants to show you. So we have a bed here and and two nightstands two nightstands with with with the shelves. with the shelves. Yeah, my son is playing here and a desk. Sometimes we work at this desk here. So this is the bedroom and this is the ceiling light. And this room has a very big glass door

that lets all the light come in. So if you open this door you can go you can go Yeah, and the floor is very hard, so Arian needs to be careful when he's jumping. jumping. So when you open the door you can go right to the balcony. Here you go. you go. And like all other rooms it has air conditioning and heating, so it's comfortable in all seasons. So you can see the panel here and you can just turn on the air conditioning or the heating in the summer. summer. And this one shows the temperature what the temperature we have right now. All right, and now let

me show you the bathroom. bathroom. Again Again this is the smaller bathroom that we have here. Here we have the water heater. Not sure how you call it. So you can just turn it on and you can control the temperature you need. Select the temperature you need. For example 65°, For example 65°, 64°, etc. This is our bathroom. It's pretty modern. pretty modern. This is the smaller bathroom. The master bedroom one is a bigger one. I'm going to show you in a minute. So this bathroom has a mirror, a big mirror and a sink here. A small sink just for one

person. Also we have some storage underneath which is very useful. And very useful. And yeah, some space to hang the towels which is really good. And yeah, so this is the shower here. The toilet. And this one heats up the bathroom in winter. We have here not only the exhaust fan, but also the heating fan. heating fan. And it heats up the washroom immediately. So, for example, if you want to take a shower and you don't want to feel cold when you come out of the shower, you just turn on this heating and it becomes warm just I don't know in a few in a

minute I would say this washroom would be really warm and nice. Yeah, so this washroom is compact but very functional. I like it. All right, guys. So, now we are going to show you the kitchen first. So, first we will show you the kitchen, then we'll show you the other bedroom / office room, and after that our master bedroom. Yeah, so I asked you to keep watching this video because we are still recording, right? Yeah. We are working so hard to show you our apartment in China. All right, and now it's time to show you the kitchen. So, So, we have the glass

sliding door here. So, we just open it. Even though the apartment itself is very spacious, the kitchen is very small. When we just moved into this apartment, the kitchen was completely empty. It only had the stove, no oven underneath. Um like these are all the cabinets and the fridge. But the fridge I really like it because it's modern and big. The fridge is really big and it was here in this apartment, so we didn't have to buy any. Yeah. Ah, guys, come let me show you something. Aryan wanted to show you that he um he colored with a marker on the window

and he erased. You see? Now the window is clean. Look here, here. Yeah, so this is the big fridge. So, we bought a microwave, a kettle, then a waffle maker. This is our dishwasher. It's small small but still it's better than nothing. We also bought an air fryer. It works like an oven for now, but maybe in the future we also buy an oven. But if we do, I'm not sure where to put it. So, this is the view you get from the kitchen. from the kitchen. It's also extremely beautiful. Look at the mountains. And from here you can see the beach over there. So, there

is a beach and the mountains, the sea, the hotels. It's very beautiful and because of this window here in the kitchen, you don't feel like it's too small. It makes it feel like bigger. Yeah, this is our kitchen. kitchen. So, this is our second bedroom, which is right beside the kitchen. And also this is an office for my husband. It has a bed with a nightstand, a desk here, a small desk. And look at this amazing view. this amazing view. So, this room has the best view because it has both sea and mountain view. Look how beautiful it is. You can see the

hotels here along the shore. All right, guys. Finally, we are going to the master bedroom. And here is our master bedroom. Somebody was jumping on the bed. Mommy made it nice. Right? Right? Yeah, I was Yeah, I was jumping on the bed. Yeah, Aryan was jumping on the bed. So, let's turn on the light. Look at the lighting in this room. As you can see, the room is really bright and spacious. So, the light can get more yellowish and All the lights brighter. You see it has three modes. There are lots of space here as you can see. As I mentioned before, we

didn't buy any furniture for this apartment, so this bed and two bedside tables were here in this bedroom. I really like this bed. The mattress is good. It's not very firm. firm. So, it's very comfortable to sleep. Yeah, I decided to show you the mattress. Anyways, so this is the bedside table, the first one and the second one. The master bedroom has the best view. And again, as I told you before, here you can see it better, there is a yacht club over here. Just takes 5 minutes walk and we are at the yacht club. And there is also a promenade, so you can

walk around the island. the island. Yeah, it's really beautiful here. I have a separate video about the Starlight Island where I will live. And the other thing that this master bedroom has is a built-in closet. So, also this room has a separate air conditioning system. system. And now let's go. I'll show you the washroom. This washroom has lots of space and I'm sure they could install a bathtub here easily, but for some reason that they didn't. So, we just have a shower, the mirror, shower, the mirror, and and the sink. the sink. And there is some space

for hanging towels. This is the view we get from the second bathroom. So, now the question is how much we are paying for this apartment. So, we pay for this apartment $750 apartment $750 per month. per month. By the way, if you would like to know our monthly expenses here in China, please let me know in the comments below and I'll record a separate video for you. Thanks for watching. If you enjoyed this video, please remember to like, subscribe, give your comments below, and we will see you in the next video. See you soon. Take care. See you. Take care.

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