For missdimple

What you can see here is a row of what I think is best translated as townhouses in a small street in Amsterdam, where an interesting reconfiguration has taken place during a renovation about a decade and a half ago. The floors in each house are really too small to make an appartment to modern standards, usually people have a floor or two, with a shop on ground level, or even the whole three floors available in one narrow house. Most likely the house whose front is now all glass could not have the facade cost-effectively restored. The building corporation pulled it together with the house next to it, the one with the orange doors. I do not know how much work it was to make the floor in both parts of each appartment to equal, or if it by some coincidence already was.

The front door and mailboxes is the dark rectangle next to the sandblasted glass on the first floor. Directly behind the glass is a spiral staircase, you can see a part of it through clear glass on the first floor. There's a tiny landing on the first and second floor to enter the appartments, and on the ground floor there is space to put some bicycles. Each appartment consists of two main spaces, each in one of the old houses, connected by a door that was chopped in the wall that separated the houses. The space in the house behind the glass has on a hallway a bedroom, a large closet or tiny study, and the bathroom, the space inside the house with the old facade has been left wide open, and has a small kitchen.

These appartments aren't sold or for sale. They are rented out, one of them at least even as socially subsidized housing.