Life Abroad

A Tour of Our Amsterdam Apartment

I finally got around to taking a few photos of our apartment, in case you’d like to see how we’re living out here in Amsterdam!

We have a 3 bedroom flat that spans two floors above a woodworking shop. Not having residential downstairs neighbors is great — the shop is closed in the evenings and on weekends, and they aren’t bothered by the sounds of life with kids (aka Prim running laps around the apartment). We have a private entry from the street, which is awesome because we can store our stroller downstairs (lugging two kids up these Dutch stairs is quite enough).

Up the first flight of stairs is the living space, which includes a living room, dining room, kitchen and outdoor terrace. Upstairs we have 3 bedrooms, a small laundry room with washer and dryer, and a bathroom with separate toilet.

Our flat is located on a quiet street in the heart of de Pijp neighborhood — it’s super close to the city center and tons of great sites, stores and restaurants, but we’re lucky that we don’t live on a loud and crazy main road.Our street at sunset. Sometimes the light here in the evenings is just insane!This is a photo from last June of our front door. The plant out front was in full bloom and it looks like it’s going to be blooming again any day now.This is also an older photo, we’ve since picked up a couple of toddler chairs which we purchased secondhand for €10 — such a steal.Someday I will have a kitchen with more than a small slice of counter space. Not today though.Look at that tiny Prim! This big shelf in the living room helps store and corral all the toys.Our outdoor terrace is so nice on warm days — we felt so lucky to find an apartment with outdoor space.The view from the terrace feels pretty “Dutch.” I love it.Lark’s crib, which will eventually be moved into Prim’s room.Prim’s crib (which is usually full of books and many other stuffed animals. The girl loves her “stuff!”)Prim’s room and the guest room (below) both have these built-in desk things that we tried to get the landlord to remove before we moved in. He didn’t want to remove them which was kind of annoying (they take up so much space!) but the one in Prim’s room actually works well as a changing table at least.Our guest room (slash where we fold clean laundry — ha).Our room (which is so hard to photograph due to it’s A-frame construction).The outdoor terrace through the seasons.View from our front windows.View from our back windows (in winter, obviously).This is the Amstel River, which is just down the street from our apartment.And this is part of Sarphatipark, which is a 5 minute walk away.

We feel pretty lucky to have found such a great flat in such an awesome location. When the weather is nice, I feel like I could live here forever.

And seriously, we have a guest room — what are you waiting for??