The address is Tuinstraat 4; the apartment is on the first floor (apartment B)

This page will help you to find your way around the apartment

• Please keep noise levels down with a view to the well-being of the neighbours, both in the apartment and on the terrace. Please don’t use washing machine/ dryer/ vacuum cleaner from 22-8 h
• The neighbours downstairs are sensitive to noise, particularly from banging front door building, on the stairway, and on the parquet floor. If they are at home (which is not often), please take care
  
• Please don’t smoke 🚭 in the apartment. If you smoke on the terrace, please throw cigarette butts in the general waste bin in the kitchen. In Autumn and Winter, please be careful, the terrace may be slippery 
• Please don’t sleep on the living room couch 🛋 without folding out the bed and making it with sheets
• Please do not water the plants 🪴  there are self-watering reservoirs in the pots
• In the Summer, before your departure, please close the rolling curtains in the living room to protect the plants from too much sunlight ☀️ 
• Please do not put wet towels and other wet items in the laundry baskets, leave them on the floor of the utilities room 
• Please do not start any washing cycles if they will not finish before your departure. Do not try to force the door of the washing machine open in the middle of a cycle, this will break the handle

There are three keys 🔑 The smallest key is for the front door of the building. The largest key is for the top and bottom locks of the apartment door; open these locks first. The middle key is for the middle lock

Every time you leave the apartment, please lock at least the middle lock. At your departure, please lock all three apartment door locks. When you exit the front door of the building, please make sure the door is shut behind you 

The key for the middle lock also opens the large windows in the kitchen and master bedroom

We have had a burglary and installed a camera aimed at the front door of the apartment that records who is entering or leaving every time the door is opened 

• Kitchen: switch for light above table is in an odd position on left side of window
• UItilities room behind kitchen: light switch is inside the cupboard on the left side
• Living room: the standing lamp with the large dome has a remote control with which you can change the colour of the light

THERMOSTAT: The thermostat is in the living room, right of the bookcase. The top figure (dark font) indicates the desired temperature in °Celsius. The bottom figure (open font) indicates the current temperature. To increase the desired temperature, press the top of the thermostat (where you see the + sign) repeatedly (increments of 0,5 °C per click). To decrease the temperature, press the bottom of the thermostat (where you see the - sign); a newly set temperature will remain valid for 2 hours. The radiators in the other rooms have individual thermostats. The actual temperature is displayed on the screen (dark font on light background). To change the desired temperature, click the knob clockwise. The display changes to light font on dark background and displays the desired temperature. For every click, the desired temperature increases 0,5 °C

TV: Use the metal remote to switch on the TV. We do not have any subscriptions to TV programmes. There are subscriptions to Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, and there is an Apple TV box and a home server with movies, documentaries and TV series. ACCESS NETFLIX: On the metal TV remote, press the Netflix button. ACCESS AMAZON PRIME VIDEO: On the metal TV remote, press the Prime Video button. ACCESS APPLE TV BOX: 1) On the small black Apple TV remote, press the menu button to switch on the Apple TV box; 2) on the metal TV remote, press the home button; 3) select the icon with the apple remote and box (not the black icon with the large apple logo, which is for the Apple TV+ service). ACCESS MOVIES ON SERVER/ ACCESS INFUSE: 1) Access Apple TV box (see above); 2) with the small black Apple TV remote, select the Infuse app (orange icon)

PLANTS: The pots of the plants 🪴 have water reservoirs built in, and water the plants from below. Normally, there should be no need to water the plants; please don’t water them, since this may result in over-watering

Double bed (200x160 cm) in the master bedroom

Couch in the living room can be converted to a double bed (200x160 cm) by removing the 6 cushions and pulling the metal bed frame up and towards yourself

Inflatable double bed (200x160 cm) in the cupboard in the small room next to the living room. Electric pump to inflate the mattress is built-in. To pump up the bed, open the small lid in the mattress and remove the power cord. Plug the power cord into the mattress and a power outlet. Push the triangle facing up. Don’t sit or lay on the mattress while the motor is running. If the motor starts making a rumbling noise, push the triangle facing up to stop the motor. If the mattress is too hard, push the triangle with the stripes to release a bit of air. After use, to pump the air out of the mattress, push the triangle facing down with the power cord plugged in; push the triangle again to stop the motor 

BEDDING: Sheets and mattress protectors (under-sheets) for 200x160 mattresses in the laundry room behind the kitchen, cupboard on the left. In this cupboard you will also find towels, pillow-cases and duvet covers for large (240x220) duvets

Single duvets and blankets In the cupboard in the small room next to the living room. Covers (220x140 cm) for these duvets are also in this room

Pillows in the cupboard in the small room next to the living room and in the cupboard in the master bedroom opposite the bathroom

The kitchen is fully equipped. Feel free to use food provisions

We use neither the dishwasher nor the microwave oven, but if you want to give them a try, please go ahead

User manuals are in one of the kitchen drawers: second row from left, top drawer

Waste is separated for recycling purposes into general waste, paper and glass. Plastic and metal are thrown out with the general waste, and picked out by robots 🤖 at waste sorting facilities (so they say)

Waste bin with 3 lids in the kitchen, for paper and cardboard (left), and general waste (right). The middle lid is broken. Glass goes in the bottom drawer next to the waste bin. Please put a plastic bag in the general waste bin (if there is not one already) before you throw in any waste. Plastic bags in the top kitchen drawer next to the waste bin

Amsterdam has removed general waste containers from the neigbourhood, and since then, disposal of general waste has become a major hassle. If we will be in Amsterdam shortly after your visit, you don’t have to bother with general waste disposal, leave it to us

In case you need to dispose of waste, locations of waste and recycling containers are provided in the Neighbourhood section of this site

You will find our robot Zyra in the storage room in front of the terrace. Her charging station is underneath the white cupboard on the right. Before asking her to clean the floors, gently pull her towards you, empty her dustbin by gently lifting the flap on top, removing the dustbin by pushing the white lever inwards and lifting the bin up, opening the lid by pushing the two triangles away from the dustbin, and emptying the dustbin in the general waste bin 

Push Zyra’s middle button (with the line) to start the cleaning, the button on the right (with the house) to interrupt the cleaning and return to the charging station, and the button on the left (with the rounded square) to spot clean when you have spilled something. Don’t use her on wet floors, she is allergic to water. Don’t leave any charging cables or other small items on the floor, she will eat them

There is also a regular vacuum cleaner in the cupboard to the right of the washing machine

When you leave, please put sheets and covers that you have used in the laundry baskets. No need to wash them, unless we have asked you to do so. The four rattan baskets in the utility room in the open cupboard opposite the washing machine serve as laundry baskets. The white baskets are for white, the brown for coloured laundry. One full basket will fill  the washing machine. Don’t put wet towels or other wet items in the baskets, please spread them on the floor of the utility room

WASHING MACHINE: Feel free to do your laundry. Please make sure you have enough time before your departure. A regular washing machine cycle lasts about two hours, a short cycle about 45 minutes. It is not possible to open the door of the washing machine in the middle of a cycle. If you have an emergency, stop the washing cycle and set the dial to “Afpompen” (Pumping). Do not try to force the door open before the light indicates “Klaar” (Finished), because you will break the handle

The two magnetic balls with holes reduce the hardness of the water. The spiky plastic balls separate the laundry items during the wash. The content of the large ball slowly gives off mineral salts that replaces the need for detergents. There is also a small cotton bag with peels of the fruit of the Himalayan Reetha (Soapberry) tree. Two peels are enough for three washing cycles (in combination with the large ball). If you don’t trust all this ancient modernity, there is probably some regular laundry detergent in the cupboard on the right of the dryer

Translations of switch and button options: “Kreukherstellend”: Non-iron; “Witte/bonte was”: White/coloured laundry; “Snel”: Fast (a short cycle of about an hour); “Klaar”: Washing is finished

DRYING: There is a drying rack in the utilities room. If you are in a hurry, feel free to use the drying machine. First empty the water reservoir (upper left drawer) and clean the lint filter (inside the door, pull up)

Translations of switch and button options: “Witte was, Bonte was”: White/coloured laundry; ”Kreukherstellend”: No-iron; ”Voorzichtig”: Carefull. There are 4 levels of dryness that can be set: “Strijkdroog”: for ironing, “Kastdroog”: for cupboard, very dry, extra dry. The wool balls help the drying process, best leave them in the dryer

At your departure, if you leave behind any laundry to dry, please arrange it either on the drying rack (preferred), or run it in the dryer with the cycle set to “Extra droog”

IRONING: You can find an iron and an ironing board in the wardrobe cupboard in the middle of the corridor