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Grüezi Mitenand!
My name's Rich, I'm 22 and I recently moved into a new flat in Basel, Switzerland,
where I work as a language assistant. Following a manic afternoon of building flat-pack furnature,
I thought I would share.
It's a bit sparse at the moment, but I hope to get some more stuff for the walls.
Any advice on cheap ways to fill white space would be appreciated!
Also, new friends are welcome!
This is the view you get from one corner of the room, and is basically the view from the door. Most of the things come from IKEA because it's close and cheap when you have to start from scratch again. The whole cost of the room came to a little under 500chf. I don't have curtains because the room has external shutters.
My wardrobe. I orginally wanted to get a clothes rail, but the ones in IKEA seemed really rickety, and this was only 20chf more. I've basically been living out of a suitcase for seven weeks, so it feels good to be unpacked! Some of my shoes- my everday trainers are outside of the flat, on the landing, for easy access.
My very own Expedit! I have wanted one of these for a long time, and even convinced my boyfriend to get a 2x2 one... but putting this together this afternoon has clipped my plans of eventually buying a full-size one! The top has various items, including a plant, photos from my graduation, keys, wallet, watches and one of those chinese waving cats. The green boxes contain underwear and socks (l) and toilettries (r). I hope to buy some vintage tourist poster prints from the design museum in Zürich at some point to fill the white above here.
The books. The top left has my own books in it- LOTR, some of the classics, and several cook books and my diary. Not very interesting but useful. Next to that is my "Helvetica" shelf, which is mainly guidebooks, walking guides and maps, and a jar of change. Bottom left is stuff I need for work- I'm a language assistant at a school here, so have some texbooks and several books we're studying. Next to that is my candles and bits I didn't know where else to put.
My "bed". It's just a double mattress on the floor, but I hope it'll serve it's purpose. Plus beds are bourgeois ;) The sheets I got from IKEA, too. Green is my favourite colour and these were on sale for 10chf, so I was happy!
The postcards I brought here with me. I hope to make them eventually go across the whole wall in a wave pattern. We shall see. The one that's obscured by the flash is a portrait of the Bronte sisters by their brother Branwell that I bought at Haworth in the summer. Others are just things people sent me or that I got at festivals or from home.
My current read and a copy of Attitude that I picked up when I was back in London last week.
My map of Schwiiz. The towns I've been to so far are highlighted (in pink). A friend of mine thinks that the country looks like an "angry fish", with Lake Geneva as the mouth, and then the lake above that is the eye, and out east is it's tail... I'm inclined to agree.
Behind my door 1. These are some of the vintage tourist posters reproduced on postcards that I want to buy full-scale versions of for my wall.
Behind my wall 2, taken awkwardly because I had to hold up the IKEA boxes that are still in my room. It's a map of Basel and then a walking map of the Baselbiet.
And finally my view of the Autobahn and the trainlines leading to the SBB. And the Coop tower. The windows are pretty insulated, though, so when they're shut and the shutters are down, you don't hear a thing. Besides, I'm hoping to move to London when I'm finished here, so preparing myself for the noise might be a good thing.
Uf Wiederluege!