New year new home - and back to school!

Today I started the Great Grammar Trip.
As of this morning, for three and a half hour four times a week, I'll be back to student mode and go to school - of Dutch, of course. In a class of nine people, four of which moved here for Dutch husbands/wives/partners; there must be a hiden message there, but I'm not at all sure I want to know it... ;)
In any case, the course is very nice (and very intensive!), although as usual the first lesson was a triumph of "my name is..." and "I come from..." and "I live in..."
I am also trying to convince my beloved to bear with my linguistic experiments, without (understandably) bursting out laughing every time...

On different happy subjects, we spent the last ten days housing - as in rearranging the house, and like the good chronicler of this weird trans-European story, I am happy to introduce a classic of reportage, so good it would make Robert Capa proud: before and after pics!

To start, we live in the pictoresque street shown in my previous post, and specifically in this house:
The house starts left of the door, and ends just right of the window. Talk about optimizing space...

The first time I travelled to NL to visit my beloved, this was the living room:

After the intervention of the infamous G&C Internal Renovations company, the same corner now looks like this:

We are still trying to figure out where to put the last books, and more importantly all the books we will be buying from now on, but for the moment we decided to pretend not to know and live happily in blissful ignorance.

Upstairs we have two rooms: a bedroom (which is not finished, so be good and wait patiently) and an office, which went from an unpictureable storage room to this:

Democratically, half a room each - how equalitarian, huh?

More pictures coming when the rest of the house will resurface to a new and shared life! Now it's time for homework, though...
Tot ziens*!

*see you soon