We have found a place to live! We will move in April 27th. It is a wonderful townhouse in a little village outside the heart of K-Town (Kaiserslautern). It is perfect for us. The window on the left is looking out from the kitchen. If you go to the back of the house (same level) there is a deck overhanging the walk-out basement porch. In most of the houses/places we looked at, there is a mudroom, or entrance room to each house. This is almost always closed off by a door before entering the actual living space.Every room in every German house has a door. These are not like doors one would find in the States. They seal closed. They don't close flush into the door jam like I am used to; they seal into them and have a lip about 1 inch wide that covers the wall (hence, it is not flush with the wall). It was odd at first, but didn't take long to get used to. ( I haven't seen the American style doors here at all--not even on base). The houses are made like this to be able to shut off every room in the house, thus saving on energy costs. (And these doors are solid wood--none of the hollow doors that I'm now ashamed to say Jer and I had in our house we sold...)
As you walk through the mudroom doorway, this is what you see:
To the left is the dining area (and to the extreme left--to the left of where I'm standing to take the picture--is the kitchen). There aren't sliding glass doors in Germany. They are glass doors that open like a normal door. Anyway, out the glass doors is our stone patio. Now panning to the right a bit, you can see out of the other glass doors that enter onto the small overhang deck The staircase to the right goes to the basement and up to the upper 2 floors (Note: the rugs, fan, etc are leftovers from the tenant still living there). 
We will use the basement as our entertainment area, the main floor as dining and formal sitting (this is where I will put my piano!), the 3rd floor is where our bedroom will be, and the uppermost story will be used for storage.
Here is a view taken from the doors looking back at the mudroom (kitchen door is just to the right of the mudroom door).
There are skylights in the bedrooms, making it easier to see the beautiful view!:
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What a charming home! This makes me SO excited for you. All the different levels -- how fun! Does it come with appliances and light fixtures, etc? I can't wait to come visit. Congratulations!
The military provides a normal-sized (well, American-sized) fridge/freezer, shrunks (wardrobes), and some power converters and transformers, and a washer & dryer. Because there is so much military presence in this area, most houses come with stove, lights, sink, etc. I hear from other Germans it is not that way elsewhere in Germany.
I am so excited for you! Take advantage of living on the economy and use your German and get to know your German neighbors. You can get nice area rugs at the BX and at shops out in the towns. We didn't have to have shranks because our apartment was one of the few that had built in closets. Can't wait to come and visit!
Seth says he can see a COOL car in that first picture. It looks AWESOME
Such a beautiful home! That is awesome!
The rugs in the pictures are nasty... they smell like dog. We put them outside to get rid of the smell in the house, but now we can't open the doors because it smells like dog outside. gross... :-) So hey, we get to go rug shopping for new ones! yay for that!
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