Moving Madness!

We seem to have found ourselves a new place to live, finally! We are supposed to pick up the keys tomorrow, and have paid the deposit of three months rent, fairly standard here in Switzerland. Now we have to pack up our belongings yet again and move them to the new place. I can't wait to be in a place that has more than one room, and actually has a functional kitchen instead of this closet! We will be moving from this one room studio to a 1 bedroom apartment, or in Swiss terms, a 2-Zimmer wohnung. The best part is, it has a built in wardrobe, so we won't have to buy one of those monstrosities!

The new place is a bit more than we wanted to be paying in rent, but as a trade-off, it is an older building, circa 1898, that was newly renovated and looks very nice inside, has all tile floors with a floor heating system, and is less than a 5 minute walk from where MrB works! It was very nicely renovated, and the building itself looks very well kept up, with what looks like the original woodwork for the stairways and the doors in our apartment. It also has a larger-than-college-dorm sized refrigerator, and a separate freezer which is not all that common here, and will be very useful. We have yet to see the waschküche (laundry room), kellerabteil (cellar storage area), or bike storage area, but will hopefully get to see all that tomorrow. We also have yet to learn about the laundry schedule, hopefully we'll get more than 1 day a week, or we'll have to buy more clothes!

After we pick up the keys, I've got to head over to the place and get it measured and mapped out, then Thursday we'll be making another evening trip to Ikea to make the final choices on our furniture and kitchenware and all that. Friday we go back to Ikea and pick up all the stuff, pile it in the rental van, drive to the current apartment, pile our belongings in and head over to the new one to unload it all. Luckily, a couple of MrB's coworkers have offered to help carry things up to the new place, though hopefully nothing will be too terribly heavy. We have two hours to do this and get the van back to Ikea. Then we get to spend the weekend putting all the furniture together, and Monday we turn in our keys to the studio.

Studio and closet kitchen

Living room with a door to the balcony, kitchen, and wardrobe in the new place.