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...and here are the flats!

stripedcat wrote 3 weeks ago: It took some time, to refurbish them, to stitch up proper mini-websites, but eventually here they ar … more →

Tags: Bayerisches Viertel, Berlin Life, Berlin property market, Berlin real estate, Fewo, grundriss, Kiez, recycling, Refurbishment

The palisander sideboard...

stripedcat wrote 3 months ago: The 60s flat is very small, yet it has a beautiful vista overlooking the park and the pond and a nic … more →

Tags: Basteln, DDR, DYI, recycling, Refurbishment, 60 vision, Green Wall, iconic German brands of the 60s, Musterring

The purple sofabed (or vintage IKEA)4 comments

stripedcat wrote 3 months ago: More recycling and more second-hand! Or vintage IKEA…if you like the idea! Our friends in Vikt … more →

Tags: Refurbishment, recycling, Basteln, the 60s flat, purple sofa IKEA, vintage IKEA

The green glass bookshelf

stripedcat wrote 3 months ago: Flashback. In May I visited a dusty second-hand shop in Nolle and I fell in love with a small green … more →

Tags: DDR, DYI, recycling, Basteln, Nollendorf Platz, Nolle, the 60s flat, green glass bookshelf, Green Glass

Recycling furniture and collecting ideas in Berlin

stripedcat wrote 3 months ago: Yesterday I looked at magazines to take with me on my easyjet flight on monday…and I was surpr … more →

Tags: Berlin real estate, Refurbishment, Berlin Life, DDR, Bayerisches Viertel, Berlin property market, Modernism, recycling, Basteln

One year later...1 candle on the cake!

stripedcat wrote 4 months ago: One year ago we started this blog. Two main reasons: to report about our “flat in Berlin … more →

Tags: Berlin real estate, Refurbishment, Berlin Life, Kiez, Bayerisches Viertel, Real Estate Bubbles, Berlin property market, Schoeneberg, Altbau

A little cub2 comments

stripedcat wrote 4 months ago: We warned you. There were early signs of a little crush for small rational flats of the 1950s-60s. S … more →

Tags: Berlin real estate, Expose, Bayerisches Viertel, Berlin property market, DYI, Basteln, Aufbau, 1950s flats, Marshall Plan

Berlin, the anxious punk...

stripedcat wrote 4 months ago: Now that’s what I call a well-documented analysis. The Irish Times reports on Berlin, the frac … more →

Tags: Berlin Life, Berlin property market, Berlin real estate, DDR, QualityofLife, Real Estate Bubbles, rents in Berlin, Ideal Neighbourhood, quality of life

gazing through green glass 1 comment

stripedcat wrote 5 months ago: For some reason I am attracted to green glass. Not broken Heineken bottles, which sometimes on frida … more →

Tags: Basteln, recycling, Bayerisches Viertel, Bookshelf, bookshelf in berlin, DDR design, Decoration, li edelkoort, MUSIC FOR THE MASSES

pink tea in Berlin

stripedcat wrote 5 months ago: June in Berlin and spring is in full bloom…orange blossoms, peonies, colors fill the streets, … more →

Tags: DDR, Bayerisches Viertel, Berlin property market, DYI, recycling, Basteln, Decoration, li edelkoort, DDR design

worm, chrysalis and butterfly...

stripedcat wrote 7 months ago: This is the butterfly…a bedroom full of light, the bed facing an enormous double window overlo … more →

Tags: Berlin real estate, grundriss, Bauhaus, Form Follows Function, rents in Berlin, Schoeneberg, Altbau, Refurbishment, Kiez

the haberdashery factor

stripedcat wrote 7 months ago: “The ideal neighborhood” is the most visited page of this blog, since ever. I guess this … more →

Tags: QualityofLife, Schoeneberg, urban village, Kiez, Prenzlauer Berg, Ideal Neighbourhood, Retail-free, sense of place, ghost town

Happy Easter!!

stripedcat wrote 7 months ago: Well in march during my latest Berlin weekend I did not resist to the temptation of acquiring anothe … more →

Tags: Berlin Life, Bayerisches Viertel, Samovar, Easter, bricolage

Urban farming: Li Edelkoort was late2 comments

stripedcat wrote 7 months ago: After Naomi Klein’s “No logo”, are we heading for a “No guru” era? Sin … more →

Tags: Berlin Life, QualityofLife, urban village, Kiez, tiergarten, li edelkoort, trend gurus, trend book, Cool Hunters


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