A Blessing from Allah (SWT)

 

This summer Allah blessed me with the opportunity to purchase a chalet down in the Dead Sea area. It is a two-story two-bedroom house with a pool. 

It looks over the Jordan Valley and it's not clear in this photo but you can see the Dead Sea just at the edge of the horizon. 

 Currently, we are working on making it even more beautiful; with plants and furniture.

It already had some citrus trees like this pomelo tree and it also has a lemon tree and a Seville orange tree plus a guava tree. Our Seville orange has little tiny fruit on it, but the Guava and lemon haven't fruited, we are waiting for spring.

The previous owners left us some furniture. In the living room, there were some hedious orange cushions on a nice rattan furniture set. Luckily I unzipped the orange cushions and found pretty beige cushions underneath with some stains that could easily be washed out.

They also left this ugly lamp that I'm currently repainting and hope it will look much better.

Lastly, I bought this cute day bed from Ikea because my room had no furniture. The pillows I purchased from a colleague who is leaving the country and so I purchased them for really cheap.

One of the great things about this place is the 20-minute drive to the Dead Sea. instead of the hour-long drive from Amman. Because we can get there easily we get to go for long sunset walks on the boardwalk overlooking the Dead Sea.