I loved this apartment! In the future when I come to Paris I will return here. The apartment is as pretty as it seemed in the pictures and is very well appointed. The owners have a wonderful artistic style and have collected many nice ideas from their travels. It is all very lovely and plenty of space. Among the kitchen and household supplies, we found everything we needed for daily household activities and while cooking for the family I was especially happy with the efficiency of the gas and electric stove and the cooking pots. The internet was fast and reliable the whole time we were there.
The location on metro line 7 is super convenient to the apartment. The courtyard from the apartment forms a gated square and along this perimeter of the square there is the metro close to one of the gate entries, 2 grocery stores (Carrefour, Monoprix), several pharmacies, and 4 bakeries (six if you expand a bit from the corners!). Everything does tend to close around 10 pm, so with our jet-lagged late night schedule we had to learn to complete our shopping by then, though there is a 24 hour grocery store a block down.
We spent 3 weeks in the apartment so I will share some things about daily life, focusing especially on many of the things I will miss. One thing we worried about was the higher temperatures in July but we needn’t have worried because if you open the windows, there is a wonderful breeze through the apartment. This was especially beautiful, always bringing fresh air in the apartment and at times if you insisted in keeping all of the windows open during windy periods, the wind would pass through quite breezily, so that was fun! Finally, the apartment has large windows in every room (as well as effective shutters for the sleeping) so this is a perfect apartment if you are loving the opportunity for large amounts of natural light and gorgeous views. The apartment complex forms a squarish courtyard and I very much enjoyed looking into the courtyard for a peek into the ongoings of everyday Parisian life. From other directions, you could see beyond the courtyard into the city for the gorgeous views including Sacre Coeur, La Defense and the Cité Curial-Michelet buildings. (I'm a fan of this style of architecture so this is one reason why I first chose this location in Paris.) There are the lively but muffled sounds of a nearby elementary school during the weekdays and at a larger distance, the bells of a church and the tram are comforting city sounds.
