INTERIOR
This bel étage is located on the 1st floor of a front building at Scharnhorststrasse 5 in Berlin-Mitte. The building dates from 1888 and is currently being extensively renovated. The kitchen / dining area with a double-leaf connecting door to the living room plus adjoining balcony (south-west orientation) is spread over 93 m². These areas are also accessed from the corridor with double-leaf doors. A walk-in closet is located in the hallway from which you can access the bedroom on the rear courtyard. Guest toilet, storage room and a large daylight bathroom with bathtub plus integrated rain shower and washer / dryer column can also be reached from the hallway or the extended hall area.
All the necessary functions are housed here in an extremely structured manner while maintaining the generosity of the living spaces. All of these rooms get that wow factor when you walk in because they are so beautiful.
The room heights of 3.20 m together with the large, high lattice windows, the bay window, the almost room-high, double-leaf doors with door walls including door frieze create this wow factor. The perfectly prepared plank floor, the smooth plastered walls in pale blue-gray and delicate pink by the English paint manufacturer Farrow & Ball, the white ceilings, some with stucco, and all wooden parts with the matching Bulthaup kitchen B1 go well with this. The matching tiles from the Berlin manufacturer Golem are also tasteful, restrained.
This elegant impression encompasses both the hall and the bedroom. In all rooms you experience this look paired with the charm that is so characteristic of old buildings from the turn of the century. Precisely fitting fixtures from the carpenter such as a cloakroom, walk-in closet, built-in mirror or room-high bookcase complete the apartment with reduced, functional elements. This mix makes the apartment something special.
Modern elements can also be found in the bathroom. Black and white tiles laid like a checkerboard, plus the anthracite blue wall color (Stiffkey Blue) combined with ceiling white and white tiles set surprising and striking accents here too.
Terms such as tasteful, a refined selection of colors and materials, a cozy ambience and a perfect symbiosis of old and new are a skilful description of this bel étage. It is representative and yet an oasis of well-being, in which everything comes across as subtle and beautiful with a certain understatement.
OTHER
Bulthaup kitchen B1 with Bora induction field with exhaust air, Miele oven and sink. Bathroom with fittings from hansgrohe. There is an elevator, additional storage space and a bicycle storage room. The building is not a listed building and the entrance and stairwell will be renovated from week 44 to January 2022 (including new sisal carpet, wall paints and mailboxes).
EXTERIOR
The building is located in an area steeped in history. Scharnhorststrasse formed part of the former East German and West German border. The border area began to the west and at the intersection Invalidenstrasse was the largest border crossing between the FRG and the GDR.
The building has the typical elements of historical buildings. Bay windows, balconies, high windows with lattice bars, all of this symmetrically arranged, paired with reduced building height, integrated into the row of buildings, plus the typical avenue trees achieve this neighborhood feeling, which is so valid for preserved old building quarters and which is simply associated with living in Berlin . This feeling can also be found inside the building, where the charm of the slightly morbid is still to be found. The original staircase with wooden steps and railings, paintings on the underside of the stairs and the step stringers have been preserved.
This existing old will be freshened up through renovation in the coming weeks, whereby the charm should be retained. The stairwell, the apartment entrance and your own four walls result in a single design. Well-groomed, cultivated, traditional, with contemporary modern elements, suitable for the urban environment. Living the way you want it in the capital.
LOCATION
One is close by the main train station but yet quietly on the edge of Mitte. Here, there is a slightly different picture that does not correspond at all to the common cliché of Mitte. Instead of snazzy boutiques, lined up coffee shops and chic office spaces, one can discover military installations, memorials, old cemeteries and long-established concert institutions.
Of course, this neighborhood is also changing and cranes, excavators and construction vehicles are a usual sight. Nevertheless, there are quiet corners such as the Nordhafen, where you completely forget the hustle and bustle of the city.
In the morning you grab your coffee at 19grams on Chausseestrasse, which is where you regularly should move your home office. When the weather is good, the Invalidenfriedhof is a real highlight. Here you can experience Prussian military history up close. With the little ones you should definitely go to the Museum für Naturkunde, where you can look into the teeth of the T-Rex Tristan. The evening can then end casually with a vino at Shed bar or a jazz concert at Schlot.
If one wants to get away, it is only a 12-minute walk to the tracks of the main train station and from there Berlin and the rest of Germany can easily be reached.
