Our New Home!

This is what our new home looks like! Yes, it is very bright blue! I am glad it is not bright orange or yellow like our neighbors! We live in a small neighborhood out on the economy, although it is military housing, so right down the street we have German neighbors!

This is a three story (although it is considered 2 stories with a basement, go figure). It is a duplex style home with one attached neighbor to our left. Our whole yard is fenced, with a gate that locks and has an intercom that rings into the house! There are stairs on the right that brings you to the front door, on the 2nd floor. It has 4 bedrooms and 2 & a half bathrooms, three rooms on the top floor, and the Master room and bath on the bottom floor, along with a huge laundry room and a really big utility room. The balcony is off of our living room, and the sliding door is off of the master room. There is also a single car garage with a large storage room that is on top with an entrance right out side our front door. Eric plans on making that his "shop", we'll see!Hahaha! Yes, that is also left over snow from before we got here! Eric had shoveled the driveway!

~German windows and doors!~

If you noticed in the first picture that the door and windows on the top and bottom floor look completely white, while the middle floor you actually see windows, that is because the blinds are on the outside, even on the sliding glass doors!

Now I will show you how these things work!

Normal door, closed.........Now opened (Hi Snickers)!....Door now tilted open!

If you look closely at the handle, you'll see that when the door is closed it is down, opened it is to the side, when the door is tilted it is up! When it is like this, it will not open like a door! All the windows in the house are the same way!

~German Blinds!~

Like I mentioned above, the blinds are on the outside! All the doors and windows still have regular screens on them. There are three steps to the blinds, complete "white" out, what I call "polka dots", and open. One the side of each window and door is a pulley system that allows all of these functions! Here is what they look like!

The down side is, if they are completely closed you can't tell if it is day or night!!

Just wait! The next set of pictures.....how the German toilet works!! Hahaha!

Later all!!!