Beautiful Authentic Dutch apartment in Amsterdam

Maybe a highly desirable location but the apartment looked very impractical and in need of a complete update. Bathroom looked third world, I didn't notice a tub or shower. I would expect some sort of elevator or chair lifts would be necessary. It is hard for me to understand why anyone would live in a place like that. Especially an old lady who can't get up above the first set of stairs. Where would she go for the necessaries?
 

Tom52 said:
Maybe a highly desirable location but the apartment looked very impractical and in need of a complete update. Bathroom looked third world, I didn't notice a tub or shower. I would expect some sort of elevator or chair lifts would be necessary. It is hard for me to understand why anyone would live in a place like that. Especially an old lady who can't get up above the first set of stairs. Where would she go for the necessaries?
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couldn't agree with you more.. but you're paying for the location... and the authenticity

The ''old lady'' has lived there for 64 years , she seems to be coping up until now...
 
It was common all over the world for awkward apartments to be built atop retail shops. They often catered to lower working class people, both singles and those starting families. Quite often these could end up being permanent housing for families with few other options, especially if hard economic times struck while a family was still in a fragile economic stage.

What's weirder to me is seeing such neighborhoods having been razed and replaced by either gentrified housing or new government subsidized housing for more recent groups of immigrants. The revisionism of the "lore" of such neighborhoods can be breathtaking in its assumption that earlier groups who built the area also received such generous welfare. They also skip over the high crime that drove the original residents out as the new groups shouldered their way in.
 
My son and his wife just spent ten days in the Netherlands including a stay in Amsterdam. He sent me plenty of pictures and I'm just amazed by the age and architecture of the buildings. My curiosity always goes to what those old buildings look like on the inside, thanks for posting that video Hollydolly, I loved seeing life from the inside.

And good gosh those are some step stairs!
 
C50 said:
My son and his wife just spent ten days in the Netherlands including a stay in Amsterdam. He sent me plenty of pictures and I'm just amazed by the age and architecture of the buildings. My curiosity always goes to what those old buildings look like on the inside, thanks for posting that video Hollydolly, I loved seeing life from the inside.

And good gosh those are some step stairs!
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I'm the same C50... I'm always curious when I see traditional buildings in other countries, what they look like on the inside...

I remember being astounded in Spain when I saw traditional housing which looks very small, poor and basic from the outisde but then a wonderland opens up behind a closed outside door.. which leads to inner /outer doors.. and then to a huge beautiful living space in many cases...
 
This apartment isn’t something that would be desirable where I live, but it would get rented. It’s not a place I would want to live in, but I think it would be fun to spend a week or so living in it as a vacation rental. The steps wouldn’t be a problem for either my wife or me, but I would hope there would be a bathroom on the first floor.

European housing has always interested me and the architecture has also grabbed my attention. Seeing that our town and the boroughs around it are shaped after European housing, it appears to remind me of home. Many of our towns are named after English towns.
 
Reminds me of what Anne Frank lived in for 3 years ? without ever leaving it ..... amazing. That old lady sure is a trusting soul, bless her heart.

I can't even imagine getting groceries up those stairs. And I really do hope there is a second bathroom, really doesn't look like that one is used much. She seems to keep the rest of it fairly nice, considering her age. Allot of clutter but it is her home.
 
Tom52 said:
Maybe a highly desirable location but the apartment looked very impractical and in need of a complete update. Bathroom looked third world, I didn't notice a tub or shower. I would expect some sort of elevator or chair lifts would be necessary. It is hard for me to understand why anyone would live in a place like that. Especially an old lady who can't get up above the first set of stairs. Where would she go for the necessaries?
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... and claustrophobic!
 
I haven't been there in many years but I found Amsterdam to be a beautiful city with amazing architecture. I hope it hasn't changed unless for the better.
 
Naturally said:
"It smells so historic" :ROFLMAO: ... as he walks through the bathroom

Lady sure is friendly and trusting of a guy on the street that wants to film her domicile

Interesting :cool:
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yes I was laughing when he said it 'smells so historic''..I'm sure he meant Musty ...:D

Often people seem to trust others if they're filming.. don't ask me why but they do... and we don't know what he told her beforehand
 
hollydolly said:
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A 4K walking tour...check out the heels on the woman on the right! Ouch.

The tour of the apartment was interesting for sure. I guess if the lady has lived there for 64 years, she's used to it, but she must be starting to feel uncomfortable with the stairs. Dang! I rarely go upstairs in DD's house because of the stairs. In comparison, they're nothing.
 

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