Our attic apartment renovation Part 1 - before...

Well, it's been a while since this all happened and we have since sold our lovely attic apartment with roof terrace in Amsterdam and moved to the 'burbs'...well, it's what I call the suburbs but most people would say a 15 minute walk from the city centre isn't really suburbia...but hey, there's only 300,000 people in this 'city'!!! ;-) More on the new place later + photos but now...here's what we did. Part one, the before photos:

At the top of the 69 steps to our apartment...were some scarier spiral stairs to the roof terrace.

Yep - very scary...even worse on the way down...especially after a few drinks with an alfresco dinner on the terrace on a summer's evening!
This is the old kitchen...the WHOLE kitchen...where's the fridge you ask?! Yes I wondered that myself until I opened the cupboard across the hall...needless to say, that is not where we put our fridge - clearly those folk did not entertain much.
A view across the kitchen to the dining space (the door in the kitchen leads to the bathroom).
More of the dining space.

The living room/study (with piles of things that had no home yet...).

Looking back the other way to the kitchen (um...please excuse the laundry!).

The bedroom.

The storage room ("walk in wardrobe"!).

Only 55sqm but it was ours and that was exciting after too many years of living in other peoples places. :-) We could do whatever we wanted to it - yay! Little did I know then how difficult renovations/builders can be and that, in fact, you can't do anything you want even if it was only the inside of your home...the council needed to know and approve everything...the beginning of our 2 year long nightmare...ahem, sorry, learning experience!