Goethestrasse #5: Our New Home

Our new home. It's a very new home, only about 2 years old. Built with several others just like it across the street from us. Contrast with our neighbors, whose house was built after WWII by the Great-Grandfather and has remained in the family ever since.

Our kitchen is very new and modern... including dishwasher and large(r) size fridge. Fridge not in picture.


Our small, borrowed TV on which the kids can watch DVDs. We did buy a used AFN box which gets the military TV channels with TV from the US, but we have not hooked it up yet. We've lived without TV entirely for about a week and decided we weren't in a rush to get it. The kids have been playing nicely with what *little* toys, books, and drawing materials they have. We decided to keep TV out of the equation for now.

The spiral staircase spans 4 floors. There's a downstairs with 2 bedrooms and a large laundry. We think they'll be the playroom and the storage.

Our 1 full bathroom on the second floor. Fortunately, it's on the larger side.



The main floor with our borrowed, Army closet furniture. At least it gives us a place to sit for dinner each night. Looks mostly like a Dr.'s waiting room. This Dr. is waiting for his stuff to come... about another month.

And the view from the top floor down 4 floors. Yes, sound does carry in this mostly empty place with not enough furniture and no rugs or floor coverings. You can speak in a normal voice in the kitchen to the person on the 3rd floor and they can hear you just fine! But the hard floors are nice... we have radiant heat which is nice on the tootsies in the morning in the tile bathroom.

I'm yearning for our stuff to get here to fill it!