I am so in love with our new flat. It's great. It's big (well, in comparison to our last flat and in comparison to having no flat at all), it's really centrally located (just step out the door and you are in the main drag (depending on what you consider is the main drag)), there are restaurants and cafes and shops all over the place (including the shop directly over the road that sells asian-style paper parasols! And I was so sure that I would have to get my sister to bring me one from Sydney when she comes to visit! You can ignore all those instructions now, Steph! There's also the vietnamese restaurant a few doors up that apparently has two slightly different takeaway menus, with the result that the stir-fried tofu and veggies I ordered the other night ("number five") came out of the kitchen as some sort of triple-meat rice frenzy. Which was disappointing, but I just made Reto share his meal with me and my problem was halved), and we're only a five minute or so walk from the train station.
a protest out our window the other day. Something about trains
As it turns out my fear that the flat would be more ramshackle than charming was pretty unfounded. It is quite ramshackle (in a "crumbly plaster" sort of way, although only in patches. And the floorboards are very squeaky in places), but everything works. The stove and the hot water system in particular, with a terrifying style of burn-inflicting efficiency.
Mr K tried to befriend the serviette holder, but he didn't expect its hidden rage
The only possible improvement left (now that we have the internet at home again! Yay!) is the delivery of our couch, and happily that is apparently happening on Thursday! Yay!
no couch but lots of space
6 comments:
Congrats. The flat looks really nice. Nice detail with the zog-zaggy parquet. I don't see that very often.
You'll get used to the squeeking though - and it kinda has its charm, if it's not too excessive.
Had it been planks and not parquet, you could better the squeeking a bit, by knowing the layout of the underlying wooden frame, and drill some screws through the planks and into the frame. My brother did this with my kitchen floor which was terribly squeeky - and now, it squeeks no more. Nice.
Very nice detail with the panelling at the windows. Very charming. You just don't see these details in newer appartment projects. It just reeks of history :)
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it looks lovely. lots of light gets a big tick.
We have our new couch now too, so new photos of the fully furnished version will no doubt be along soon ...
I think the squeaking isn't really that bad. Or maybe we have just worked out the places not to walk now. The bathroom door is also a bit on the squeaky side, so I will have to look into what the Swiss equivalent of WD40 is. Reto apparently has no idea, which doesn't come as a huge shock...
by the way, it doesn't look ramshackle in the slightest. in fact, it looks quite zjuzji (that's my approximation of the spelling of that word made popular by queer eye for the straight guy). are you hiding the ramshackle bits or are switz apartments normally so swish that this is what passes for ramshackle? or are your standards just ridiculously high?
Actually, it's really not that ramshackle after all. All the stuff in it is functional in spite of being really quite old (like the stove and the hot water system and so on, as I said) and the windows could give you splinters that would kill an ox. And there are some bodgily-patched former holes in the walls, and some of the plaster is falling off in places. And there's the squeaky floor issue. Oh, and there's a big crack down one of the walls. And there are quite a few rusty nails that poke out at you just where you don't expect them to. Apart from all that, though ...
ok, ok. the photo makes it look deceptively sparkly. (there's that deceptively deceptive word deceptively again.)
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