We found a house. I honestly don’t remember who had found out about it first, it was either Ross or Klo, someone had given one of them a tip about it, but we have been talking about it since a while now, so I don’t know anymore. Tonight Ross and me went inside for the first time to check it out.

Since a couple of days it has gotten real cold outside, not just at night, but also during the day. It also has been pissing like crazy for a couple of days last week and Briggs has started a cough, so she is nagging me to go inside somewhere for the winter.

That is easier said than done, but this place seems to have potential. Apparently it has been empty since years and although there is to the main street a drywall that was put up by builders with plastic sheet flattering down from it, it seems that was ages ago, and whoever had plans with this place was satisfied hiding it like that from the street, which works well in our interest – as long as they don’t get the idea to suddenly come back and take it all down. But over winter, since they haven’t done so by now, it’s not likely, so maybe this will really be the new place. Briggs will be happy, and all of us anyways, let’s face it.

The street is quiet. If there are any people around they don’t seem the type to make a fuss. So far it looks more like all warehouses than flats. That is a point: who lives nearby?, because at the last place we had til August ours was the last squat on the street and the neighbours complained repeatedly they had to get out of bed early for work and we should quiet down when we had a party, which was at least once a week. At the last place we were 13 living there “long term”. At times as many as 25, who would stay a short time, or boyfriends, girlfriends or siblings visiting. After we got the notice we’d get kicked out, many people left and found other places, and we five stayed together.

I took some pictures for the others to see. There is a pretty large living room downstairs:

Josiane Keller “house – living room 1” (2018)

Josiane Keller “house – living room 2” (2018)

and a decent-sized kitchen:

Josiane Keller “house – kitchen 1” (2018)

Josiane Keller “house – kitchen 2” (2018)

Upstairs is a room that must have been a nursery will all sorts of kiddie decor on the walls:

Josiane Keller “house – nursery 1” (2018)

Josiane Keller “house – nursery 2” (2018)

and a bathroom, although there is no toilet and no tub inside, but we probably can come up with something:

Josiane Keller “house – bathroom 1” (2018)

Josiane Keller “house – bathroom 2” (2018)

And there is a bedroom with a ton of paintings still on the wall. Actually, the whole house has still a ton of stuff inside, but no furniture like a tables or chairs ad no toilet or bathtub. Instead we have paintings, books and mirrors and stuff like that, oh well.
Two of the windows go right towards a street lantern, so at night it’s a bit bright, but we’ll figure something out if it really bugs anyone:

Josiane Keller “house – bedroom 1” (2018)

Josiane Keller “house – bedroom 3” (2018)

Josiane Keller “house – bedroom 4” (2018)

And I have one more photo of the bathroom, the window goes to that drywall, although there is just the white plastic sheet over it it’s not as bright at night as the bedroom:

Josiane Keller “house – bathroom 3” (2018)

Five rooms for five people, not bad, not counting Mel, who doesn’t need her own space, during the day she’s out with us or can watch the new place and at night she anyways likes cuddling up with Briggs and me. Maybe the bathroom doesn’t count as its own room, but the living room is big enough for 2 spaces, so there.