Well, it has been just over a week, and what a successful week it has been! Got TONS accomplished:
Took a lot of scouting and finagling, but we found a bed that didn't cost us two years salary. Wouldn't have been our first choice: it’s huge, and low to the ground, but it’s a bed, and it serves its purpose – and it made it that we could move out of the hotel and into the house.
We are roughing it for a while, but that’s okay. A quick trip to IKEA got us up off the floor… mostly. Just need a table to go with the chairs in the kitchen; too funny.
We're off the floor in the great-room also.
Very inconvenient that IKEA only accepts cash… very inconvenient indeed!
Picked up a shelf and cloths rack for our bedroom’s temporary closet. It will work until we can buy a proper clothing shrank.
Houses/flats do not have lights, just wires protruding from the ceiling; this is something you must purchase and install yourself; another good use for IKEA.
Working with electricity is one of Dean’s least favorite things to do! He did it though, and we now have light in every room.
Now, when I mentioned the kitchen, (another thing that does not come with the house/flat either) I hope you didn’t picture anything too extravagant!
This is our make do kitchen until the kitchen we ordered can be installed. We were able to arrange for that to happen very quickly, thnx to some help from the school. It usually takes a few months to get your kitchen delivered and installed; ours should be up and operational in less than two weeks; very thankful!!
(Won't be IKEA kitchen)
We were able to purchase, and have delivered, our new washer and dryer within just one day! Now my task is to learn some serious German words so I can figure out how to use the washer correctly. The ECO cycle is four hours, the quick cycle is two hours thirty-five; no such thing as doing laundry in a hurry here!
Something that always makes a house a home is plants!
This is my first plant purchase in Germany. Dylan and I think it is very nice.
I choose to overlook the fact that we had this particular variety of plant growing outside in our yard in Singapore…
it’s now a houseplant, and I am okay with that.
Bought my first two orchids too – two of the many many I plan to own, >^_^< remember how beautiful the ones I had in Dresden were?!! Excited.
Also bought some herbs for in the kitchen; they brighten the kitchen wonderfully, and they taste good too!
It’s all coming together nicely.
Amazing what a person can accomplish in a week.
Took a lot of scouting and finagling, but we found a bed that didn't cost us two years salary. Wouldn't have been our first choice: it’s huge, and low to the ground, but it’s a bed, and it serves its purpose – and it made it that we could move out of the hotel and into the house.
We are roughing it for a while, but that’s okay. A quick trip to IKEA got us up off the floor… mostly. Just need a table to go with the chairs in the kitchen; too funny.
We're off the floor in the great-room also.
Very inconvenient that IKEA only accepts cash… very inconvenient indeed!
Picked up a shelf and cloths rack for our bedroom’s temporary closet. It will work until we can buy a proper clothing shrank.
Houses/flats do not have lights, just wires protruding from the ceiling; this is something you must purchase and install yourself; another good use for IKEA.
Working with electricity is one of Dean’s least favorite things to do! He did it though, and we now have light in every room.
Now, when I mentioned the kitchen, (another thing that does not come with the house/flat either) I hope you didn’t picture anything too extravagant!
This is our make do kitchen until the kitchen we ordered can be installed. We were able to arrange for that to happen very quickly, thnx to some help from the school. It usually takes a few months to get your kitchen delivered and installed; ours should be up and operational in less than two weeks; very thankful!!
(Won't be IKEA kitchen)
We were able to purchase, and have delivered, our new washer and dryer within just one day! Now my task is to learn some serious German words so I can figure out how to use the washer correctly. The ECO cycle is four hours, the quick cycle is two hours thirty-five; no such thing as doing laundry in a hurry here!
Something that always makes a house a home is plants!
This is my first plant purchase in Germany. Dylan and I think it is very nice.
I choose to overlook the fact that we had this particular variety of plant growing outside in our yard in Singapore…
it’s now a houseplant, and I am okay with that.
Bought my first two orchids too – two of the many many I plan to own, >^_^< remember how beautiful the ones I had in Dresden were?!! Excited.
Also bought some herbs for in the kitchen; they brighten the kitchen wonderfully, and they taste good too!
It’s all coming together nicely.
Amazing what a person can accomplish in a week.
2 comments:
hope you will have bought one more chair before I come!
And maybe a bed too?
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