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11th December 2018 - The not so joyous part of painting your new house.

Let me tell you, it’s not all singing and dancing and flicking paint at one another as you giggle like the movies want you to believe. Instead, it’s me leaving Terry to paint the skirting in the bedroom and coming downstairs to sulk, sit on the plastic chair that’s currently residing in the hall and think “oh this will be a great post”! 

The Hunt For The Perfect Sideboard | Space Issues | Home Furnishing

One disadvantage about the house is lack of storage. We don’t have any cupboards apart from one that used to be the airing cupboard before we removed the tank. It'll eventually house towels in the top half since its next door to the bathroom, and cleaning appliances, such as the vacuum cleaner and mop etc at the bottom, purely because there is no where else to store them. Because of this, we’ve got to be smart about the pieces of furniture we chose and try to make the most of the space we do have.

House Survey Explained | Our Surveyor Missed A Problem With The House

Grab a cuppa, it’s going to be a long one… When you buy a property, one of the steps you have to go through before you can complete, is to get a survey done. For those of you who are completely new to the home-buying experience and are unaware of what this is, it’s when you hire a surveyor to go to the property and they check for things like; wall structure, damp, mould, uneven floors, poor windows, double glazing and so on.

Life Update | We're Buying A House

I’ve seen people do the ‘We Bought A House’ post and I thought I’d switch it up a bit a do a ‘We’re Buying A House’ instead! I had originally planned to do the first, but I feel like so much has happened during our process, it would just be a never-ending post. So with this one, I'll be summarising our experience as a whole and eventually, in time, I'll write separate post's relating to different stages in more detail.