19. Flat 1A
Entering 1A by its front door after walking up from lobby, you are in the flat's hallway that by a pull of overhead chain gets brightly lit from its 100-watt ceiling light and pleasantly surprises by its newly laid green carpet. All of old Dan's previous magazines & books have been removed, leaving the hall bare, but on your left after entering is a small table and oval mirror on wall that Sheila uses to get a look at her face before opening the door to greet Irving.
Entering deeper into the hallway on your right is the kitchen. It has a black nonslip oil cloth - later called vinyl flooring. - for easy cleaning. The kitchen has an oven with top gas-range & dish-cleaning counter, a 1938 white Frigidaire, and a small table with 3 chairs.
Going back into the hallway, at its far end is a French door with 6 glass panes that the dividers make into 3 rows of 2 each. Opening the French door you enter into a living room that surprises by its straw color Japanese tatami floor that gives a fresh fragrance and prevents harm from falls. To your right against the west wall is a brown, cloth-covered sofa you could sink into comfortably, and you may imagine Sheila & Irving embracing and kissing on it. On your left, against the opposite east wall is a settee that can be made into a bed. On the far wall, 2 windows face south over the Parkway, and the window on left opens to a metal-grill, faded brown painted fire escape. By the window is a floor-to-ceiling steam-heated pipe and next to it a bellows-like room-warming radiator—-both painted silvery white—-, which wake Sheila on winter mornings with knocking sounds, and the steam heat soothes her body. Next to the settee is a night table with portable phonograph which she can turn on with reach of her right hand shortly after waking and listen to Enrico Caruso's Norma to soothe her Roman Catholic soul.
By the southwest window in far corner, to your right on entering, is a 1-meter (c. 3-foot) square black leather-top bridge-table with a chair Sheila calls Irving's chair that gives a window view and, to its left, around table corner, Sheila's chair.
The bathroom is down the hallway from the outer entrance hall.
There is more to the flat—-Ali left junk—- and everything is usable, as Sheila finds out.
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