Decorating

I spent yesterday at our 'new' house decorating and completely exhausted myself. It was good to be back in the office today. Updating website pages was a lot less tiring. Some time we'll have to tackle the garden which appears to have been neglected by the tenant we had over winter.

For a collection of links on Haus und Garten go to http://www.internetbibliothek.de/dib1/ There is a bit of a bias towards building but a reasonable amount of less demanding DIY and interior decorating. Following through a link for the magazine "House and More" - yes, the site is in German - led me to 25 Sparideen - interesting and also downloadable as a PDF file if you wish.

Hobbies, DIY, gardens and even jokes

Hobbies - always a favourite topic set for students learning German. Yesterday I wrote about Koch Atelier and that led me on to explore some of the other things available from the same source. So go to http://www.hobbyatelier.de/ if you want some tips on setting  up a workshop, doing some decorating and all manner of things. If you are looking for creative ideas for making decorative objects or working with textiles then perhaps you'll find something useful in http://www.dekoatelier.de/ For furniture and everything to do with interiors there's http://www.wohnatelier.de/ Gardens are dealt with in http://www.gartenatelier.de/ and you'll want to know all about cleaning so try http://www.putzatelier.de/ If you don't find that funny then go for http://www.witzatelier.de/

You might also try the online magazine series
http://www.hobbyedition.de/
http://www.wohnedition.de/
http://www.gartenedition.de/
http://www.kochedition.de/

Plenty of useful insights into German homes and gardens and hobbies. Wonderful sources for learning German words and phrases to describe everyday objects. Please share your views on this by leaving a comment.