The result is a stylish place to lay your head in one of the best locations in Brussels.
Sometimes it's not cutting-edge interior design you want when you lay your head down for the night.
However, the six new rooms, constructed from local stone and flanked by pergola-covered walkways, are still more than just a place to lay your head.
It's a glorious place to lay your head, unless you find its own nightclub still in full swing and feel tempted to join in.
Without a home you have no place to lay your head and no place in the world to call your own.
For an affordable stay in the city center, the 48-room Alexander Inn (301 South 12th Street; 215-923-3535; alexanderinn.com) is a homey, unpretentious place to lay your head.
Best to think of your accommodation as somewhere to lay your head rather than a Vegas-style resort destination, then use it as a base to go and explore.
That was in "Lay Your Head Down," the strongest track on "Keren Ann" and the clearest indication yet of the singer's attraction to the terse and self-conscious style of the Velvet Underground.
At the end you find a handsome old building, with the smell of wood smoke as you push through the door, and the promise of somewhere soft to lay your head.
Some now offer health treatments, and there is even an "ear cleaning cafe", where you lay your head in the lap of a pretty lady while she extracts wax from your lugholes.
It's easy to define a house as a family home, student digs or somewhere to lay your head; but a home is also a potent tool of social renewal and social justice.
