Coltonhaus

Willkommen zu unserem Heim! Welcome to our Home!

We are so glad you could come. First things first, let us give you the grand tour. Come on in! We'll start on the first floor. Where you are standing now is our entry way. Our landlord lives downstairs, he has his own entrance around back, so we have this part of the house all to ourselves. On the main floor you will find the kitchen/dining room, living room, guest room and 1.5 bathrooms. Additionally, there are three bedrooms and 1.5 bathrooms upstairs, we'll show you those in a minute.

As you walk through the door and take an immediate right, you come to a half-bath.

If you next walk straight in from the door, you will enter our kitchen/dining room.

First is the kitchen looking from the dining room.

Next is the diningroom looking from the kitchen. This is much bigger than we need for a dining room so we are thinking that we will put the kitchen tabel on the right and our computer desk on the left. Now, you may be wondering what kind of view we will be enjoying as we sit at our table for dinner. Wonder no longer...
If you look at the picture of the dining room above, if you were to turn to the right you would have this balcony.
We are hoping to put a BBQ out here.

If you come back inside and turn walk through the dining room you will be able to turn left into the family room, right into a full bathroom, or continue straight into the your room (a.k.a. the guest room). Let's take a look at your room first.

Of course you'll have a bed. And from that bed you will have this view to enjoy when you wake up in the morning...

From your room and from the hallway there is access to the guest bathroom. You may have noticed that even the bathroom has a stunning vista out its window. This is definitely a loo with a view.

Walking out of your room and turning to your immediate right you enter the family room. This is where we plan on putting our couch and T.V.

Next we will go up stairs. This is a picture looking down the stairs from the second floor.

When you walk up the stairs and turn left you will see the two kids' rooms, the one to the left is the biggest (first picture) then one to the right (second picture). Josh will be in the room on the left and the room on the right will be used as a nursery for Maggie now and for any future kids (no, we're not announcing anything).


If you go straight from the top of the stairs you will run into two bathrooms next to each other, the master bath (first picture) and the kids bathroom, a half-bath (second picture).


And finally, we enter the master bedroom. It is much bigger than we expected. We heard from multiple sources that we would likely not be able to find a house that would fit our King mattress so we decided to bring a Queen instead. Moral of the story... could have brought the King. Oh well.

Since I've shown you the views from every other room, I can't pass up showing you the views from our room. Along with the same back views other rooms in the house enjoy, we have a french patio on the side of the house looking out on this...


Well, we hope you have enjoyed the tour of our home and we hope to be able to show it in person to as many of you as possible. If you've ever wanted to come to Germany, now's the time! We hope to see you again soon!

Homeless no longer

After nearly 9 months of moving around, living out of suitcases, and not having a place to settle down, we have finally found a home in Reichenbach-Steegen, Germany.
Here it is! A beautiful 4 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom house just 10 minutes from my office on the Base. We have been searching everywhere for something that size and close to the office and finally found one. It is two stories with the Kitchen, dinning room, living room, one bedroom, and 1.5 bathrooms on the main floor with the three remaining bedrooms and bathroom upstairs. We will post pictures of the inside once we move in (which we hope will be this weekend or early next week).

The house is situated between two small villages: Reichenbach-Steegen and Albersbach. Here is a satellite view of where we'll be living:


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As you can see, there is a wooded area just to the south of our house. Here is a view of what we will get to look at out of our back windows.
Our neighborhood seems very quiet and peaceful. There is also a great view looking over the neighboring village. Here is looking down our street toward Reichenbach-Steegen.
We will make sure to post more pictures once we start getting settled in and become familiar with the surrounding villages. Now that we've got a place to live, we look forward to having visitors. Let us know if you're ever in Germany and we would love to have you stay in our home!

While we're sharing pictures, here are a few from a trip Josh, Maggie and I took up to Burg Nanstein Castle, a short 15 minute drive from the base. Holly was not with us because she was studying for the very difficult United States Army in Europe (USAEUR) Drivers license test. As a side note, we both passed and are now in the market for a car.

Josh and Maggie at Burg Nanstein Castle

Josh standing in a doorway to one of the Castle's outer rooms.

The view looking down from the Castle towards the towns of Landstuhl and Ramstein.

Josh found a doorway just his size.

A medieval peephole to see what shady characters were outside the gate.

And just for kicks, here's a fun one of Josh and Maggie at one of the parks on base.