The courtyard entrance to our building.
When I dreamed of one day moving to Europe, I often thought about living in a charming old building like the one we are in now. Our building dates from 1880 and is painted a very typical golden ocher color. To get to our apartment, you enter a door directly on the street, then cross a cobblestone courtyard to get to the door to enter into our part of the building. I think it’s a lovely way to come home.
Another one of the planters. I like the red!
On Wednesday, it was an impossibly gray, rainy and chilly day, but when I looked out into the courtyard from our kitchen, I saw two women planting flowers. My mood changed. Spring has come to my courtyard. Isn’t it lovely?
Another part of the courtyard.
Yellow pansies.
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I love those courtyard buildings too! When I stayed in Berlin for a couple of months at the end of last year I was lucky enough to live in one, but I have to admit it wasn’t as picturesque as yours seems to be from these few photos. I also love the sixteenth-/seventeenth-century timber framed houses. Enormous beams of black timber, with uneven, at times almost haphazard white walls filling the gaps – beautiful! And even the big ones look so cozy 🙂
There are a few great examples in Lund, and I’m sure in Stockholm too…
Christian, There are some great buildings in Lund like that, I agree. Not so many of that style in Stockholm though. The Old Town here is not as old as a lot of Lund!
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