New Flat!

We bought a new flat! Finally! Can't wait to move into our new home (but will need to wait until the end of April)!

We won't move far at all; it's the building behind ours which we can see from our living room and our bedroom. The building is from 1948 and thus qualifies as "funkis" (functional style). It's a 90 sqm two-bedroom flat and it has all three of our "wants"; fireplace, balcony and bathtub!

We're planning to polish the floors (too light for our taste) including the one in the smaller bedroom which is now painted white, and also freshen up the kitchen (or a complete rebuild) and the toilet. We will also need to paint some walls and remove the wooden wall in the bigger bedroom (now dining room). But otherwise the flat is in a good condition!

Here are some pictures of what it looks like now.

The building itself is not pretty but since we'll be living IN it, it won't bother us too much :) But it's funny that we've been sitting on our balcony talking about how ugly the house opposite is (especially the colour) and now we'll be living there!

Floor plan. As you can see it has two walk-in closets, well, at least the one next to the bathroom qualifies as a walk-in while the other one is a bit too small perhaps.

Living room

The balcony is not as big as the one we have now but a decent size. It faces southwest so we'll have afternoon and evening sun (like now).

The kitchen is in a good condition but we want built-in cupboards on both sides. I'm not sure I like the tiles either - sort of French country-style - but we may stick with it.

The present owner uses one of the bedrooms, the bigger one, as dining room but we will use it as our bedroom. The living room is big enough for both a sitting area and a dining room table. We haven't decided yet though whether we will close up the opening between the bedroom and the kitchen.

This will be Isolde's bedroom. It has access both from the big hallway and from a separate entrance (to the flat) and there is a toilet next to it. There's a pretty big closet next to the loo where we will put a washer and a dryer.

The hallway in the middle of the flat from different angles

The bathroom left and bottom right and the toilet top right. We'll probably re-tile the loo.