In a country as dense as Germany (i.e., 585 people/square mile, as compared to the US’s 84 people/square mile), it’s no wonder that so much value is placed on having an outdoor space of your own. In all the apartment hunting I’ve done here — whether in Hamburg, Berlin, or Bremen — balconies are worth their weight in …
We moved to Berlin over two years ago, and the balcony continues to be our favorite place in the apartment. We’re on the 4th floor (or 5th floor, American), so our balcony opens up to the sky with a clear view of the rooftops of Friedrichshain. Even in the middle of all the bustle, it’s a …
As just about anyone in Northern Europe could tell you, spring has taken her own sweet time in arriving this year. So we delayed a bit in planting our little balcony garden, but on the first day of June, we decided it was time — sun or no sun! We made the trip to our local …
Whenever we discuss what we want to do with our weekends, we joke that we should go to Balconia, the land of our balcony. Although we’ve been working hard the last few months to bring together the last few remaining pieces in our living room (repolstering a Danish-designed teak arm chair from the 1960s, and …