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 …
Tag: The Apartment
Our Balcony Garden
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 …
Balconia
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 …
RAW Green
I’ve seriously slacked in posting updates on decorating our apartment here in Berlin, but that’s mostly because (almost) a year later, it’s still a major work in progress. However, we did recently buy a piece of artwork by Berlin photographer Frederik Schulz that we absolutely adore — a panoramic 360-degree photograph of an abandoned building …