Thursday, 30 July 2015

"Fill a house with love and it becomes a home."

This weekend is our big move! I cannot wait to be in anew place and finally get settled. It will be so nice to unpack everything, get organised, and start living life without boxes and suitcases all over the place! Once we get settled, I'll definitely make sure to share lots of pictures! I'm not even sure we have good pictures of our current flat but I'll work on that, too. Thankfully we are only moving about 10 minutes from here in the same town. The main reason for our move is that we simply need more space. The flat we are in now has been Haydn's "bachelor pad" for the last 3 years. It's worked well for us, however, the lounge (living room) is Haydn's office, if I stand with my arms out in the kitchen I can reach both walls (It's that narrow!), and the spare bedroom is full of tools, and other misc. things that belong in a shed meaning we have no room for guests. When we started looking for a place, we had a list of "must haves" and then a list of things that would be nice but not totally necessary.

Our "must haves:"

*3+ bedrooms (master, a guest room, and office)
*En-suite bathroom to master bedroom (not common in this country!!)
*Yard
*Off-street parking
*2+ bathrooms 
Would be nice but not totally necessary:

*Tumble dryer
*Conservatory (Kind of like a sun room but not!) See picture! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
*Dishwasher (again, not totally common in a lot of places!)
*Close to town (I love to be able to walk there.)
*Shed in the yard (for storage)
*Built-in wardrobes (Closets are unheard of! Wardrobes are huge clunky things that take up lots of space in the rooms that are already pretty small. Built in wardrobes help save space!)
*Detached property (Meaning we wouldn't have to share a wall with someone.)


We were lucky enough to find a house that has EVERYTHING on BOTH of our lists!! Here is a quick picture of the front and back of the house. I can't wait to show you the inside!! :)


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