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3/28/2013

Small kitchen - small decoration!

I really like our kitchen. It's awfully small and sometimes a pest to cook in because as soon as there's something more elaborate, you have to do the dishes in between and that gets annoying. But all in all, I'm very happy with what we made of our 300€ cheap kitchen. There are still a few things that need to be done, but once everything is alright, I'll update the blog with pictures of the complete kitchen.

For now, there's one thing I want to show you - my little wall of fame.


Please excuse the bad quality of the picture - it's too dark to take a better one at the moment! There are a lot of different things to be seen here, let me break them down!

On top, there's a really old grater we found in our old apartment. Same goes for the one on the right below it - that's an old cutting board. I really liked the floral design on it and wanted to incorporate it somewhere. The small pot lid was just too cute to throw away, another thing I found in the old apartment (and yes, we really did find so many things when we moved out tat we'd never used or even seen before!)

The three picture frames that have handwritten things inside them are old recipes. The one in the lower right corner is from my mother's first cookbook, she let me have that page because she never cooks it, it's a recipe for cheese soufflé. The one in the center is from the lady that lived in our old apartment before we moved in, I found it together with a super old Dr. Oetker cookbook and since she left us so many things in the apartment, I wanted to take at least a small piece of it with us to our new home.

Now, the one on the upper left is the one I'm really proud of. I found it in my grandma's old recipes. My grandma's father used to have a butcher's shop, he passed it on to my grandpa, who passed it on to my uncle. It closed a few years ago because of the economy, but this recipe keeps it alive! It's the recipe for our famous Fleischwurst (pork sausage) that we won a few prizes for and that I ate every day. And now I have it in my kitchen!

The frame with the wooden spoon contains a page from that old Dr. Oetker cookbook I found, the page describes everything you ever wanted to know about soups - and what people back in the 1950s thought of it! The spoon isn't quite as old as that book page, but it sure looks like it!

It's been quiet...

... The move and everything that happened with it had us really, really busy. So busy that I haven't even had time to take proper pictures of what the apartment looks like now! There are still a lot of projects that need finishing. Our 'entrance area' (I can't really call it entrance area, it's too small for that, but hell, I'll just go with it) needs a LOT of finishing. Our 'pantry' (again - it's actually too small to call it that) needs organizing. The curtains in our bedroom need shortening and I need to make a lamp for it (it's totally a real and proper bedroom, though). Our dining area needs everything (I need to build a bench, re-paint chairs and table, hang more pictures, build a new lamp). Our kitchen needs curtains and a bit more decoration. Our living room is okay-ish, but The Doctor build a huge picture frame that he had some sort of crazy idea for, so now we have to get a picture printed for it and then hang it. I got a pouf though! I'm very happy about that. One picture that perfectly describes the chaos we've dealt with is that one here:

The first coffee on the first morning in the new apartment... in the middle of pure chaos.
 Of course, it doesn't look like that anymore. We've been living here for 4 months now - hard to believe! But even though we've cleared out the chaos, there's still loads of things to do. I'm almost glad that it's still too cold to use the veranda and the garden yet. I've planted a few bulbs, but the time for the rest of it has yet to come.


Yep, we still have to wait for spring to truly arrive here. Flipping through my phone, I've found a few pictures - they're not the best quality and most of it isn't finished yet, but here we go!


That was the first room we got done - to be exact, I didn't have anything to do with it. But The Doctor made sure his little music studio was done a day after we moved in.


Our new huge bed! We still have to buy mattresses that actually fit - ours are 10cm too small each, so there's a little gap between them. It's great to store a water bottle though, for whenever I wake up thirsty. Behind the curtains, there's our closet - I'll take better pictures of that once it's bright outside and we've found a solution to hang more things, we're running out of space currently.


Our beautiful stove - it's kept us warm through winter. We just ran out of wood today, so it will have to stay empty and cold until next winter. Let's just hope the sun comes out soon!

I'll be making one or two more posts later today, about two projects that we actually got done, or almost done, and hopefully bring back some life to this blog! :)