I’ve been focusing our search on big, impressive places, but a little borderline derelict, hadn’t been renovated in fifty years bungalow in need of more TLC than I could give it got me thinking in a new direction. Before I moved to Denmark, I’d dreamed of expanding my garden and turning my suburban Connecticut lawn into… Continue Reading
Hunting My Real Estate Dream: A Big Aarhus City Apartment
A big Aarhus city apartment only comes on the market once in a blue moon. A typical Aarhus city apartment has one to three rooms. You can find some four and five room apartments, but six or seven rooms is practically unheard of. So, imagine my glee when this seven room apartment came on the market in the… Continue Reading
Mid-Century Danish Design: Hunting for Houses in Aarhus Denmark
I’ve slowly developed a preference for a house over an apartment, and my hunt for houses in Aarhus Denmark is in full swing! When I first moved to Denmark in 2010, I bought the apartment that was my muse for nearly four years. Then I moved to a smaller place in Aarhus where the lack of storage,… Continue Reading
I’m house hunting!
Houses in Denmark have to be better than apartments in Denmark—so, I’m thinking about buying a house! I’m beyond tired of listening to other people’s televisions and kids. I’m over having to sign up a few days in advance for a laundry time. I’m sick of having to schedule appointments and errands around the probability of finding a parking… Continue Reading
Process hazy, try again…
(alternately titled, we don’t know our asses from our elbows) I cannot go through another bike to bus, walk, bike to office, repeat in reverse winter. I live in Scandinavia. The winters are frigid. It’s windy. It snows. It rains. I have asthma. The buses to and from work run once an hour and I… Continue Reading
The One-Year Mark
Last Friday, it was one year ago that Opie and I boarded a plane out of Boston on a one-way ticket to Denmark. Living and working in Europe is the experience of a lifetime. This past year has been exciting, amazing, scary, fun, overwhelming, frustrating, and so many other things. On the subject of work…… Continue Reading
Homeowner
My offer on the dream apartment was accepted!!! A mason confirmed that the cracks in the foundation were normal for a 1907 building and of not any structural concern, and the seller has agreed to fix all of the other issues in the inspection report, leave some of the fixtures and furnishings I liked, tile… Continue Reading