Let's start this post by introducing Number One's kitchen before we did anything to it. The photo's I am about to post are by no means fancy, but bear with me - hopefully I'll start taking some better ones with some experience! We have a reasonable sized kitchen that I originally thought was all decaying MDF and in need of ripping out. On...
When you complete on a house, it feels so surreal - at least it did for us. We weren’t able to collect the keys ourselves as we were both working, but I recommend you take completion day off as it’s too exciting. Go out buy some bubbles and invite your family over to celebrate and talk about what you can do with it...
Ten points if you already know exactly what happens when you have a Homebuyer’s survey! I definitely didn’t and it was honestly exciting and gut wrenching at the same time. Exciting, because we were lucky enough to go to the property at the same time as our surveyor and have him talk us through the findings. Gut wrenching because of all the work...
In this post I wanted to cover the actual process of buying your first home. After our initial offer was rejected I was heartbroken and panicked that we had blown our chance at buying Number 1. Secretly I’d already set my heart on it, even though I knew it was far, far too early to emotionally commit. To make a new offer, we...
Before buying Number 1, we had an offer accepted on a different property but it was never to be. No one really talks about this type of situation, especially on agent websites that offer advice for first time buyers, so I wanted to do a post on the one that got away as at the time it made me very anxious and uncertain....
