Apartment Number Five

Located in the back of the property is a two story two bedroom, one and a half bath furnished apartment.

Living room entertainment furniture made from cinesero wood and the walls and ceilings are made from melina wood.

The living room sofa and door to the half bathroom located on the first floor.  This apartment has many fine original oil paintings and lithographs thruout.

The stairs looking down from the second floor are made wapinol wood an the walls are made from melina wood.

The kitchen has everything your going to need, stainless steel pots and pans, microwave, toaster and all the other stuff your going to need.  The cabinets are custom made from pacific cedro.

The kitchen room dining table and chairs, along with a Costa Rican rocker to relax in.

Another view of the the dining room table and full size fridge.

The second floor main bedrrom cinesero furniture and closet.

The second stairs hallway desk and shelving. A hardwire DSL internet cable is located behind the desk.

The second bedroom with melina walls and ceilings.  This room has a large desk with a view of the central valley.

 The second bedroom desk and mirrors that oppen up with a view of the central valley.

View of the central valley form the second bedroom.  You can see the airport and Escazu along with other parts of the central valley.  It's a gfreat place to watch the sunset from.

The Romeo and Juliet balcony overlooking the courtyard/common area of the apartments.  A great spot to read and have a cup of coffee in the morning.

The Romeo and Juliet balcony looking up from the courtyard.

The second story full bathroom which has hot water from a electric hot water heater on the first floor. This bathroom is located between both bedrooms and has doors on either side leading to the bedrooms. 

The second story bathroom is a full size walk-in shower stall with hot water, along with ceramic and details from Italy.

 The second floor landing mirror and small table.

Oil painting in stairwell.

Apartment Number Three

foyer to apartment number three.

Kitchen apartment number three which has everything that you need to cook some great meals.

 The dining room set made from cinesero wood.

The bedroom and closet of apartment number three, along with a chest of drawers made from cinesero wood.

The bathroom in apartment number three has a free standing pedestal sink, fan, shower stall with instanteneous water heater.

Apartment Number One

Front foyer of apartment number one. Glass block is to allow light into bathroom on the other side, which has a tub/shower combo.

 The kitchen to apartment number one has everything you need.

Bedroom is equiped with linens, fan and a TV with a remote control.

Dinning room next to kitchen and leather lounge chair. Internet access cable is located on the wall behind the table.

Bedroom closet and dresser.

Apartment one entrance door is on the left and the bedroom faces streetside, which lets in lots of light and breeze from the street.  All apartments are equiped with built-in wall fans.

Apartments Vicky Hallway and Common Area

 Looking down the hallway towards the back apartment number five, which is a two bedroom bath and a half furnished apartment. The four front apartments are all one bedroom one bath furnished apartments. The door on the left is to apartment number one and the door on the right is to apartment number three.  The tile used thruout the building is from Italy.  The doors and cabinets are all made from magonany wood. The ceilings are tounge and grove made from laurel or melina wood.

 The door on the left is our office.  The window on the right is to apartment number four.

 We call this the Romeo and Juliet balcony.

This view is that of living room window of apartment number five.

We have a common washer and dryer for the apartment building, which we charge $10.00 a month for the use for each apartment.  We do not supply detergent - sorry.  The facility is available from 7:00AM to 9:00PM.

 We call this the birdhouse, well it's actually a dollhouse. At one time we had a few small parots who used it as their nest, however that didn't work out that great due to all the presents they left behind.  It was pretty cool having the birds free ranging in the common area though. 

 Common

  picknic table hand laid with ceramic tile by Vicky herself.  A great place to hang out and have a couple of beers.

The front door sidepanels exhibit a collection of Costa Rican butterflies.  This was a Vicky design element of distinction, which I've never seen incorporated into a door design before.

 Yes we recycle.  We donate aluminum cans, glass, paper and plastic to a woman in Bario Jesus, Santa Barbara who uses the proceeds to feed childern in the community. Check out the iron pig on the second layer of the fountain.

Apartment Hummingbird Gate

The front hummingbird gate was designed especially for this building by the owner of the building Vicky herself.

 Hand made metal details include hummingbirds, flowers, butterflies, leaves, viness and insects, all done by local local artists in the Santa Barbara de Heredia. 

Apartments Vicky Santa Barbara de Heredia

Front view of Apartments Vicky