The House Hunt Continues...
So! Tomorrow we will go see another apartment in the afternoon and I'll share photos and give you the details when I return, I promise! Then this weekend we have another appointment to see a place that, from what I've heard, just may be our dream apartment. We shall see. I'm just really, really, REALLY hoping something comes up soon because I don't want to spend a year searching for a place, we are bursting from the seams in our current apartment as it's too small for two people to live in two rooms of living space, especially since we both work from home. His office is our bedroom. My office is the living room. This is just not working!
I'll post here again in a few days with details on tomorrow's appointment. It has 4 of my top 5 requirments: Wood floors, sunny, bathtub, enough space (I think I can manage with 4 rooms) and my 5th, which I won't know until I get there, that non-smokers are around because I am allergic and cannot live in an apartment with lots of smoke coming in through others apartments.
Wish me luck!! :) Or should I rephrase that... Say your prayers!!! ha ha!!!
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Just so you know, 25 years ago in Germany is A LOT different than today in Germany. And what that lady said to you is an isolated case. I grew up in South Carolina, 25 years ago I remember KKK burning the cross on the yards of African Americans and I remember them even burning them on the lawns of Caucasians who were found associating regularly with African Americans. America was a lot different with race 25 years ago too. But of course, like America, Germany has definitely evolved -- for the better!!
is a gut feeling
I will send you good vibes from spain
keep going girl!!!
A few years ago my husband and I were looking in Hannover List to buy a nice appartment like the one you described on your wish list. We then still lived at the Moltkeplatz as I wrote here before. Then - after many disappointing views (always bad renovation quality) we got a telephone call of friends. They just announced: "Hi guys, we are standing in front of your new single family home in your new garden!" What was that? We were so curious that we did risk a visit. Well at the end we bought it because we immedeatly fell in love with the garden and the cherry and apple trees.
My advice to you is to look for an appartment from the 1920s (mostly red brick houses, sometimes a little bit expressionism or art deco). These are mostly better renovated and have many of the features we both are looking for.
Iris
Your decorating ideas are awesome!
I'll keep my fingers crossed that you may find a proper apartment very soon.