creaking floorboards
We had an appointment with the occupational therapist that will try and help Kirby deal with his ADHD.
Her office is a flat in an expensive part of the city, in an old building. Flats in such buildings are oftentimes planned like they were in palaces, tubular with «corridor rooms», high ceilings, lots of plastered details, creaking wooden floorboards, the hallways are littered with cracks in the walls, and there's always are draft going through them, and in this hallway, the ambient sounds were complemented by the sounds of a kitchen, from which waiters and members of the cooking staff went to and fro—most of such buildings are connected via multi-stories basements, in this case a nearby Restaurant uses a level of the basement of three buildings for their office, storage, restrooms, etc., and a large apartment on the ground floor as a kitchen.
And the retrofitted elevator is a close contender for the «smallest elevator in anapartment building of the world».
In one of the «corridor rooms», you could feel the tram going by on the street below. An oddly reassuring sensation.
Over the holidays the heating was turned off—why?!—and it never got warmer in the 90 minutes we spent there. It's also been a while since i spent time in such a flat, so i forgot about the dim lighting most of them have. Because of the high ceilings and people not caring, most lighting fixtures can't properly illuminate a room, so people arrange all kinds of floor lamps among and in the furniture. Which … i don't know, it should be cozy, and it seems to me that way in movies, where a set designer and director and others thought about that, in most apartments it looks «cheap»—i prefer a well placed and bright enough main light.
The large windows of the office and the surrounding buildings offer a lot of opportunities to be distracted/spy on others.
I wonder if Kirby will like the place or not, and of course, the therapy.
