The chicken figuring in the kitchen photo in this series is still fresh on the cutting board – revealing the non-vegetarian habits of the people inhabiting the apartment; the aroma of the spice lingering deliciously in the air and the gas stove is grindig happily away at heating the butter on the pan (at least it isn’t complaining about anything, so I assume it’s happpy).
Here are, as promised a little while ago, photos of our home.
Also I will just take the time to here, bid Bjørn a good journey over the next few days, weeks and months as he settles into his new place of residence, working for Rare in the UK. Best of luck bro, our thoughts are with you.
Very nice place.
If you dont mind, how expensive is it in relation to flats in the UK? I am applying for jobs all over europe including Denmark as a web designer and I am hopign to get something in Copenhagen and was jsut curious how expensive places were over there.
Nice gaff Michael. Your apartment seems to get a lot of light which must be nice.
Fancy a lodger (baths regulary and doesn’t leave the toilet seat up too often)? :-)
Stew: Apartments in Copenhagen are hard to get and overall rather expensive… I think London beats Copenhagen, but that’s about it :)
DarkBlue: Yeah its really nice and bright, especially the living room. We’re blessed with not having a large building across the street, but rather a large empty abandoned bus-parking ground of some kind.
Reg. a lodger… I think I’ll have to decline :) — Why, you wanna go to Copenhagen?
Very cool-looking place, Mike. I’m not sure how much apartments cost in your part of the globe, but over here in California, they’re sky-high. A friend of mine just bought a 1,000-square foot condo for 389,000. Whew.
Tim
Michael – Ahw ell better find a decent paid job :)
Tim: I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s about the same price you’d have to pay here in Cph. It’s just insane.
“Why, you wanna go to Copenhagen?”
{irony}What and leave England, the centre of the known universe?{/irony}
Ouch. How bitingly spot-on :) — I lived in Scotland for 2 years. I feel with you.
You’ve got one nicely decorated flat, Micahel! Really! Wow! Wish we had a place like that, but you’ve got yourself one ugly kitchen when compared to the rest. ;)
Thank a lot Morten :) — Yeah, the kitchen is definitly a 70’s leftover :D
Daaamn, that’s a very nice crib. Me was thinking since you “just” moved to Copenhagen that you would live some what more crappy. But that place looks brand spanking new. Your kitchen beats the hell out of the crap I’ve got anyways.
How did you get hold of sunch a nice place, I lived in Stockholm for two years and couldn’t get anything better than a student “apartment” out in the suburbs. I guess you got some heavy connections, i.e. danish mafia? ;-)
May I ask if this a “first-hand” contract rental?
Anyways, very cool place! Wish I had something like that.
Yeah we were pretty lucky. Friend of Rikke’s mom, her daughter and her boyfriend had this place. And about an hour after they decided to move out we were on the phone :)
Yeah, it’s a ‘first-hand’ contract if I understand you correctly, in that the people we rent it off of own it.
Nice!
Ok, so it isn’t really a rental then is it? Since someone else own it (not a housing company).
They who own it would have first-hand contract and you would have the second hand contract, since you rent it from the other people… nevermind, I’m begining to confuse my self here :)
Anyways, what I wanted to say is that if you’re not as lucky as you an Rikke were you would have to get a place which is a second-hand rental and in some cases even third-hand. That was the case in Stockholm for many people when I lived there, and it sucked bigtime. You could basically need to move out next week and get a new place within days.
You have a lovely home.
I can attest first hand to the benefits of making a place your own via your own sense of style. We live in a rather nasty neighbourhood with rather nasty neighbours but bit by bit (Thank you IKEA!) we’re making it home and as a room comes together the weight on our shoulders starts to ease up.
We actually look forward to coming home and at times can forget about the neighbourhood we live in. It isn’t perfect but bit by bit it’s becoming home.
Congratulations on finding and making your own.
Thanks, Michael. I remember consoling you consoling me when we moved to Scotland 3 years ago… there’s nothing so depressing as an empty room when you know nobody.
Anyways, thanks for the word up … I’ll be seeing you when I get broadband up and running.
Good to hear that you’re alive and well Bjorn. Though I’m sad to think that you’re ‘back in that place’ we were when we first arrived in Scotland. But as you know, it’ll soon be replaced by interesting new people, (hopefullly) cool new assignments and the stress of shopping for groceries before they close :)
Good luck getting broadband :)
Chris: We have a 3 month lease-end-thing… But I hope we don’t have to use it :)
Immutably Me: Thank you. I feel you, it’s not that the neighborhood we live in is particularly nice, but it makes a hell of a difference to have a little patch of sanctity in the midst of it all.
Looks absolutely lovely, especially the 15in Powerbook. I always hone in on the goodies.