New home at Stuyvesanthof
From 24th of June 2007 onwards
All the appartments on our side of the Bernhardstraat are intended to be demolished and we have been under some pressure to move for the past year or so. As a result of this, we are at the top of the list in terms of points. The more points, the higher in ranking you are for bidding for any place. Sen has been to about 20 places and I've looked at about 10.
We first saw this appartment on May 16th and as it happened Toroa and Tama came as well. We liked the feel of the place in the sense that everything was on one floor and the rent was only 17 Euros more (360 per month) than what we had been paying. Other places were much more expensive. So we agreed to move. We had to sign on May 24th and had one month. In one way it was hectic because then Sen was in Denmark for a conference and then I was in London for a new sculpture and the floors were concrete and the walls a salmon pink-orange, but on the other hand, this being only 3 streets away, it was easy to walk over, and having the van meant we could move stuff bit by bit.
16 May 2007
A first visit:
We had a limit of 7 days in order to say "yes". Toroa is in the red coat.
Our neighbourhood. 16 May 2007. Photograph by Sonja van Kerkhoff : copyright 2010.
View from the Living Room, which like all the other rooms in the house bore salmon pink walls.
Our first job was to paint all of these white.
16 May 2007. Photograph by Sonja van Kerkhoff : copyright 2010.
The cellar is about 2 by 3 metres (less than a quarter of the size of our old cellar)
11 June 2007. Photograph by Sonja van Kerkhoff : copyright 2010.
Sonja paints in her new studio + Toroa steams layers of paint and mould off in the bathroom
June 16th 2007. Photograph by Tama McGlinn: copyright 2008.
The Bathroom
18 June 2007. Photograph by Sonja van Kerkhoff : copyright 2010.
Toroa puts up a shelf in the shower
2 July 2007. Photograph by Sonja van Kerkhoff : copyright 2010.
Sen + Sonja's bedroom Sen has just finished putting the floor in + Tama hammers dowling into the kitset wardrobe.
16 June 2007. Photograph by Sonja van Kerkhoff : copyright 2010.
The Kitchen
18 June 2007. Photograph by Sonja van Kerkhoff : copyright 2010.
Sonja in the living room
30 June 2007. Photograph by Tama McGlinn: copyright 2008.
Toroa's Submarine in the livingroom.
Tama asked him what he was making and this is what he said. The submarine was used to support the piles of language dictionaries in Toroa and Tama's bedroom.
2 July 2007. Photograph by Sonja van Kerkhoff : copyright 2010.
Toroa reads the highschool mag for parents at the livingroom table
4 July 2007. Photograph by Sonja van Kerkhoff : copyright 2010.
Sen + Toroa work on shelves for the living room
2 July 2007. Photograph by Sonja van Kerkhoff : copyright 2010.
Details of a shelf in the hall
19 August 2007. Photograph by Sonja van Kerkhoff : copyright 2010.
View from the kitchen balcony. Pigeons are basking in the sun on the roof.
6 October 2007. Photograph by Sonja van Kerkhoff : copyright 2010.
29 November 2007
The back of Tama's banner in the livingroom
29 November 2007. Photograph by Sonja van Kerkhoff : copyright 2010.
21 December 2007
View from our front balcony
Our neighbourhood. 21 December 2007. Photograph by Sonja van Kerkhoff : copyright 2010.