Home Sweet Home

After 2 night flights and full day layover in London, we arrived back in Nairobi yesterday. Walking back into our home was a joy. Tim had put flowers in every room to welcome us.It occurred to me that I have not shown photos of our home since last summer when we first arrived at Rosslyn Academy. We have made some cosmetic changes this year – paint and decorations. Here are some pictures from today.

The living room walls were orange when we moved in. We now have Maasai Red walls and have purchased a rug from Treo Carpets for the tile floor. I have purchased tan coloured suede to recover the cushions on the sofa. The prints on the wall are Kenyan landscape and were taken by a fellow Canadian teacher at Rosslyn named Jeff Kirkpatrick. You can visit his website at www.jeffkirkpatrickimages.com

The boys’ bedroom looks dramatically different with its Apache Brown walls. The bed spread is a Kenyan fabric of safari animals and the wall hanging we bought at a duka (shop) on the side of the road.

I have decorated our bedroom with turquoise and brown (Fawn Beige on the walls).





The family room is where we hang out in the bean bag chairs, pick at the guitars, watch movies, or play games. The walls are Burnt Toast.


The kitchen has lovely cupboard doors but we have painted some black trim and added black knobs. The appliances and dishes are also black. The walls are yellow.


After writing all of this about our home I am struck (again) by the wealth and space that we have compared to Kenyans in Nairobi……