The View From Your Bedroom
 

What do you see every morning when you wake up?

Here's the view from my bedroom window. My house is a crap-hole, but the view is priceless.

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that's an amazing view...

that is a nice view! nothing interesting out my window, just some trees in my backyard.

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:) Manhattan Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge respectively :)

Very nice, cyn.

Wow, you two have some spectacular views!

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Here's what I see when I wake up in the morning. Quite literally. I woke up one morning, sun was filtering through my window. Grabbed my camera and voila .

daniel, I'm not familiar with S. England, (evne though my MIL lives in London currently) but it's quite nice to see that there's some water activity.

girly - I miss the trees of the mountains of So. Cal.

There's three sailing clubs on the river/harbour I live by, and two Sea Scout groups (one of which I was a member of for many years as a kid). There's also a canoe club on the river, and a couple of surf/windsurf/kite-surf beaches within a couple of miles.

My brother used to be in the UK under 21's whitewater kayak team, and my father has competed (and won his class) in many fastnet races for the UK and on one occasion for Papua New Guinea.

Nick Baker who spent much of the 90's as a very successful pro-windsurfer was once my assistant Patrol leader - it was me that taught him the basics of dinghy sailing before he got into windsurfing.

In 2012 the Olympic sailing events will be held on he south coast, not in London.

So - yep - we have a deal of water-sports here.

Comes from being an island, I guess. Nowhere in the UK is more than 55miles from the sea, I seem to remember.

I feel kinda silly posting this after all the other beautiful views, but the view out my bedroom window :( :

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...kie/Window.jpg

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The bedrooms face different directions, this is a panoramic view from the road.

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:icare: glad you joined in, monk. :thumbsup:

Well, there are no windows where I sleep. Or in the building for that matter. Heres a nice picture from the roof where I was staying recently.

You in the Middle East then?

Looks.... erm..... dusty. :icare:

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I hope the picture worked, this is part of my view (need to find a diff pic)

aaah... the northern part of my view...that I wish I had... :) I still like our view.. but I do love the Empire State Building

Yea, slightly. Cleaning is a pain.

Now that's what I call a view.
bummer.
Thanks for posting! I was wondering if anyone else had a dull view.

Nice. Somewhat on the dull side, but way better than a brick wall!

I think I'd cry if I woke up to that one every morning.

Wow. Nighttime cityscapes are incredible. But is it still beautiful during the day? I hope so!

My bedroom window faces the parking lot - Ya think maybe it needs to be paved or sealed? (I'm hoping for a really good rainstorm so you can see the lake that accumulates in the parking log)
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And if I look to the left ever so slightly, I get a lovely view of the trash area.. It's really fun to watch the big ole garbage trucks come rumbling in...

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Isn't that interesting mal. You do own a camera............ :D

never said I didnt -- just said I wouldn't get in front of it... (I paid a lot of money for it- don't want to crack the lens -- or y'alls computer monitors)

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View to the left and to the right.

what's the thing that looks like it's got on a football/hockey helmet tothe right?

That is my hockey gear. It is on a drying rack on the balcony. My girl won't let my gear live in the apartment with us. I can't imagine why...

The view from my attic deck :)

the far back yard, the near backyard (that's my gold civic by the coach house) the garden directly below me, the north view, and the neighbours yards to the west. Brantford is pretty central in the Golden Triangle of Southern Ontario.

This is the view from our bedroom.

It's not too shabby.

Maleficent,
Your view looks like the view from my first apartment. Now it looks sort of like Jumpin' Jesus' view. I have come a long way...

gawd, i'm really depressed now.. I'm too freakin' old to be living in such a dreary dump....

Note to self: Stay home long enough so you can actually find a new place to live.

Maleficent stay where you are. I have this view, but I don't have enough money to do much else but look at it. When I lived in my first place it was so cheap and I had tons more fun. Plus, I could use the extra money for clothes and shoes. Now if I can't make rent, I will be looking at the sidewalk below living in a hut made of shoeboxes. That would be bad.

Hopefully, you are having lots of fun and have the extra money to blow or I might have just made your matters worse :eek:

Wow. I almost cry when I see that! God, what am I doing with my life. I would never post mine. Its too embarassing!

LOL! I know you're serious, but this made me laugh, because I live in a Mobile Home community, aka, a trailer park. But it's a very clean, respectable one. It ain't like some of the ones you see in Florida or Alabama. Still, though. When I say I live in a trailer park, people already have a preconceived image of what that is. Canadians think of Bubbles and Ricky.

Anyway, I love my place. It's a starter home. And yes, the view may not be great (sorry no pics) but I like it, and that's what matters. Same for you, Johnny. Where you are now isn't where you'll always be. Be thankful that you have a place to stay, period. In time you'll move on and up.

JP, it may not be important to you now. It wasn't really something we ever thought we would have. It was a total fluke that we were shown this apartment by Xazy. When we walked in and saw the city lights in the total darkness of an apartment, we knew this place was home.

You find what feeds your soul and you nourish it as such. If that happens to be sitting in a small room typing away at a glowing screen in the middle of the night...

I know that when I wake up now and I look out over the river... I have something very special and I count my blessings. I take a scoop and feed my soul.

I very much agree with this. Ever since I was a kid I've wanted to live in a high-rise with views of the buildings around. I've lived in some pretty horrendous places. When we were shown this place and I saw the Hancock building looming in our view, I immediately knew this was it. It was a little over our budget but we adjusted. We wake up every morning to this view and swore to never take for granted what we have.

The only drawback is that we live at the intersection of the main routes for two of downtown's busiest fire departments, but it's a small price to pay for realizing a lifelong wish.

Chateau Stan may have a vacancy soon. Gotta like snow and slobbery dogs.

For what it's worth, this is the home of our dreams. It was love at first sight for my wife. It was over our budget, the winter commute sucks, and I don't ever see us living anywhere else. We wake up every morning, grateful to be living in the mountains.

Life is too short, you've got to indulge some of your dreams.

I love my new place...

I went from this:

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to This:

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you've moved up in the world, monkie... :) lovely view- now get your butt outside and make snow angels..

Amonkie, now THAT's a view one could get used to.

We also have an updated view from our last one. We moved up from the 13th to the 28th floor and got a south and west view. This is what we see now.

I wasn't taking pic's for this purpose...but
 

this is out side my bedroom window....


NOT SAFE FOR WORK !!!


http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=90636

XOXOXOO :icare:

Here's mine of the backyards of Rabbittown. We got dumped on again last night, another 1.5 feet!
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I'd rather be in Bobby's backyard!

Oooh!

I missed your new one Amonkie, and I like yours Lucifer.

That's a lot of freakin' snow, lucifer. It looks like some people are going to have problems getting out their back doors.

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I took this at sunset a week or so back.

added tonight's sunset
 

I'm not photographer (but looking at the work in this forum makes me want to learn!)... But I've got a pretty decent view. Here are some shots I've taken over the last 5 months. I'll be honest though, this is the view from the hallway just outside my bedroom.

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The apartment across from me has a much better view. I'll try to get some shots there soon.

i hope this isn't too personal a question... but you two guys from NYC have BEAUTIFUL views... how's the cost of living? and "extremely high" isn't what i'm looking for, i know it's high. views like that seem unattainable to me right now, as someone soon to be out of college.

Is that the Baroque Cycle Trilogy by Neal Stephenson on your bookshelves? do you like it?

ubertuber,

I have to admit that I'm a bit jealous that you get such a great view of the fireworks.

Neat pics. Some of you have much nicer views than the average joe. I look out to trailer park. Exciting!

Lucifer - it is indeed. I love all of Stephenson's books, but those occupy a place in my heart close to Cryptonomicon. Strangely, I'm pretty sure Cynthetiq asked Supple Cow the same thing when she posted a picture taken in her room. Apparently those books have some followers on TFP.

JJ, I still don't know what those were for... But they were cool. I sat at my window take pictures as fast as my camera would allow me too.

Tech, I won't take it too personally, but my answer won't be helpful either. My apartment is part of my job - I'm a college residence hall director. In exchange for rent free living, I'm on call for emergencies 24/7. It's a good deal. They appraised my apartment at a little over $3,000/month a couple of years back (for tax purposes). The Upper West side is rapidly becoming really expensive - new construction + young professionals with stupid amounts of money. Needless to say I couldn't live here any other way.

Is this Newark, Jumpinjesus?
It looks so much like the view from my univerisity!!! I had to actually draw the view so it stuck so much in my mind!

My view just looks out houses in my neighborhood:(

so does mine, but that didn't stop me posting it

The view from my old place in Bath. My new view is nice too but I don't have any decent pictures and its all grey and overcast today.

I remember how beautiful the buildings in Bath look in the afternoon... All those honey-colored stone buildings in the warm light... I was only there for a few hours, but it is such a pretty area.

Mine's not as panoramic as many of yours, so I'm working with what I've got. One's the view through the window, the other is the view of the inside of the window a couple days ago.

http://members.shaw.ca/phatns2pid/20...fromwindow.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/phatns2pid/2006_02_11/frost.jpg

Suave,

Is that ice on your window??

Hundove,

actually, it's Chicago. I didn't realize that Newark would look so similar. Now I'm intrigued to see Newark for myself.

Looks bloody cold Suave! Everything grinds to a halt when we have an inch of snow here (I'm not kidding) so I have no idea how you cope!

Bath is lovely tuber. I've lived here for almost 8 years and sort of feel that it is a place you go to retire... Am looking forward to moving to Bristol, much more vibrant, less pretentious and more multicultural.

Newark is an incredibly crime riddled city (drugs/prostitution/car theft), but it's got some amazing architecture in it... a lot of old art deco type buildings, gothic cathedrals, and some new glass skyscrapers... especially in the area by Seton Hall Law School...

maleficent,

I find that often some of the best urban photographic opportunities are found in parts of towns that make taking those photographs almost not worth the risk. I guess they make such great opportunities because there aren't many photographs of those areas. One of these days I'll be brave enough to photograph the neighborhood where I work.

Yup, sure is.
I don't think you'd want to see it, Jumpinjesus.
It's one of the dirtiest places in NJ (let's not mention Jersey City,lol).

Certainly is. It's always a treat when winter manages to creep inside of the house and make something like that. :)

avernus: All boasting and "we're all survivalists" stuff aside, when you get weather like that often, the municipal infrastructure can normally handle it fairly well (although there are car accidents galore the first few days after a fresh snowfall).

this is the view from my living room window in the middle of blizzard #5. Doesn't seem to be actually snowing a lot, but the wind is up over 100 km/h and creating huge drifts across the street. I'm glad I've got some new rentals from Blockbuster and nowhere to go...
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How high are those snowbanks Lucifer? The one by the corner of the white building looks like it could be 5 feet high...

Technically this is from my front porch, not from my bedroom window. The morning air is a little hazy right now. I might try later in the evening or again tomorrow. When the air is clear you can see the cactus in the foreground and the snow on the mountain tops at the Mountain High ski resort (with a good zoom you could see the skiers!)

I snapped this about 4 minutes ago, on a clear day you can see the Rocky Mountains over that ridge....
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here's mine at college
 

This is the view from my dorm at college which faces the 'quad' - where a lot of students hang out when it's nice and warmer out in the spring and fall. Plus, at night, I have the chance to see the occasional streaker run down the hill, touch my building and run back :D
Granted, this view may not be as picturesque as some other TFP'ers, but it's one of the best on campus :)

(I know this picture can be possibly more centered, but I decided that it was still worthy to be shown and it's better than no picture at all.)

[This picture was taken on Thursday, Mar. 2, 2006, possibly one of the last snows around here]

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regards,
will.

I think it's a fantastic view keyshawn. I'm a little jealous!

This is a great thread for me. My bedroom has a balcony that looks out over the lake. I'm always running out there to snap a photo.

here's ours.........i love this new place.

fuck the city........

no offense to those that live in the city......just how i see it eh.


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Here is mine. One if fall, one in winter. Can you guess which is which?

Wow ! How far away is the resort from you ?!

regards,
keyshawn

Here's my view. The first 3 pics are from 2002, the last one is from 2004. The skyline is pretty much the same now, maybe 2 new skyscrapers are up on the east side.



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Well, this isn't what I see EVERY morning ...

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I am humbled by several of these views, yet after seeing others I am greatfull that I even have a view!

Thanks
Suede

Uhh, does this mean Hell has frozen over?

i wish i had photo's of my old view ....... straight over the beach at broadbeach on the gold coast here in queensland!! amazing!
or the house that i grew up in ...... lots of hills! nice! .....
love the pictures of the snow! ..... something that we just don't see here! ...... but we got sand and bikini's!! hehehehehe

Just bumping this in case anyone else wants to post theirs.

I can't believe it was over 2 years ago I did this!

Ok, view from my bedroom-

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And to the right-

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From here

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to there

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It is kind of sucks )

man, that is awesome, can i borrow that?

Sure ) On my flickr they are.

oh, i meant your words, not your photos...i would never borrow your photos.

You probably don't realize that 'it is kind of sucks' has quite a charming ring to it in 'merican vernacular. :)

hm. okay )

hm..

it's just me. I have a thing for words and how they fit together. :)

Oh yes! Me too )

A snow squall moving in, a trio of trees, and the view down into the back yard from our little balcony. The only window in the room is the balcony door. It faces north, so at least I have northern light when working on my art :thumbsup:

The neighbours took down a tree to the west - until then we were surrounded by tree-top greenery in the summer. At least we don't have any balconies around us, so we can sit comfortably on our coign of vantage and look o'er our domain. Or at least as far as the next row of houses to the north.

North Carolina
 

I gotta love the northern hemisphere, so much diversity.

That' great. If I didn't have the sea, I'd want the trees. :)

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Sue - that sky is fantastic! Love it.

Thanks :) I'm pretty happy with my view :)

Thanks Daniel_ but I think I would prefer to wake up to sunlight every morning rather than shade. I am a big fan of heat and I plan on moving south when I retire.

Now thats a great view to wake up to

New house, new view...

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My dog likes it better than The Colbert Report-

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Tully, that's pretty!!!

Yeah my other house was literally falling down around me so my friend, Jorge, asked if I'd house sit/rent from him. It's a lot more house then I need- three bedrooms/four baths and a big pool-

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Nice kitchen-

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Fully furnished-

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It's a lot to clean and sand gets everywhere. But somehow I'll manage to suffer through.

It's so hard to be you! :lol:

I like the new view, Tully--and that pool looks very nice :thumbsup: