Yes, we´re crazy for junk.
Monday, January 16, 2012 at 12:02PM 
My mother has a former colleague who inherited a small old house in Munich some time ago. The house will be demolished soon and my mom asked her colleague whether we could take some plants from the lovely overgrown garden. We could, and while we did so back in autumn, we also took a peek into the large workshop at the back of the house.
Jackpot. Old, massive workbenches, wooden cupboards and dressers, tools, garden stuff, large ladders, shelves, lamps.... you name it. So last weekend, we flew to Munich, rented a huge van, filled it with all the goodies and hauled the stuff back to our house. It was quite an ordeal but definitely worth it. This will all go in our barn at the back of the house... the husband will have a very nice workshop indeed.
Fun story: We had a student helping us on Saturday who at one point sighed and asked: "But why in the world are you taking all that junk with you?". Hehe.
PS: The pictures show the "soon to be demolished" workshop in Munich AFTER we took the good stuff out! I´ll show you our loot in a separate post soon. And I wish this was our space... to be honest our barn is cute and spacious but needs a lot of work. I´ll show you that one too.
Reader Comments (5)
The workbenches look nice.....old stuff with history is always nice to have.
wow that's fabulous, looks like you'll have some real treasures in there....
I can totally understand it! We once went to Sweden because I'd bought a table somewhere in the South of the country (I hated the landscape and we never got to see that table but that counts anyway, doesn't it?) Getting a pile of delicious junk for free sounds like a perfectly good reason to fly to Munich!
From what can be identified on the pics, I especially like the sink and that little stool. Looking forward to the results!
How could aynone NOT take this "junk"??? I'm a junk lover, too, and soooo JEALOUS of all the space you have to store it!
What lovely photos you have here, Katrin! I love the one above with the jars on the window pane. Oh, why does this charming place have to be demolished?
-Sandra Ludwig