This post is long over due (as internet unfortunately doesn't just appear in your new house when you move - boooo) as we've now been moved in for roughly two weeks but, ME AND MY BOYFRIEND HAVE MOVED INTO OUR FIRST HOUSE TOGETHER EEEEEEK.
HOW EXCITING.
It feels like a life time that I've been waiting for this day to come, to have our own house, and our own space to put furniture anywhere we like, and have things how ever we like them to be - I've never felt freedom like it!
We've been together for almost five years and have been looking at houses to rent for just over a year, it seemed after viewing the fourth house and it still not being right that we would never find the perfect one for us, but along came house number five which I booked a viewing for without much hope or expectations, and now here we are moved in, and completely happy and content with everything about it.
I have ever only lived in two houses with my parents, but the second one is the only one I can ever remember living in as we moved in when I was just two years old.
It was in a small cute village which was completely out the way of town and surrounded by fields and farms, whereas my boyfriend on the other hand lived in the main town five miles away. We viewed houses in both villages and town to see which we preferred, and although a village like the one I lived in was top of our list, the house we fell in love with and suited our lifestyle the best happened to be in the town, just a two minute walk from my boyfriends old house.
Not living in a village is weird for me, and even after just two weeks I'm kind of already missing the quiet evenings, windy country lanes and the smell of the farms (yes even that believe it or not). I think at the moment my mind thinks I'm on an extended holiday and I'll soon be going back 'home' but reality does hit me quite a bit when I take the ten minute drive back to my parents house for a visit and find my old bedroom completely empty.
But that doesn't mean I'm also absolutely loving living in our own place, and enjoying being a proper adult - woohoo!!
Decorating and furnishing a house has been one of the things I've been most excited for during the whole moving process. As we are renting we are pretty limited on what we can do regarding painting, and hanging pictures on the walls etc but the luckily our landlords have already decorated the house perfectly, with everything light and airy so theres not much we would change even if we had bought the place!
As it's quite small we wanted a minimalistic clean feel to the whole place with a few plants dotted around.
Pinterest has been my main inspiration and help - I swear there not one thing in the world it doesn't have on it! - so after creating a board containing all the living room and kitchen goals we got to work on Ebay and home are shops ordering lots of bits and pieces. (my advice to you if you're planning on moving for the first time or even a complete change of decor is not to be afraid of second hand objects - within reason. We found that being on a budget second hand is amazing and furniture can easily be cleaned and up-cycled to make it the style you want).
Heres a little sneak peak of our living room
The sofa was purchased in a charity shop, in which I just simply removed all the cushion covers and washed them, and then scrubbed the rest of the sofa down with washing powder, warm water and a sponge and then added my own grey throw (to match the rug - which was originally bought from Aldi for my old bedroom) and cushions to add a pop of colour.
The canvas on the wall above was from the same charity shop and was £5! We bought it at first just as a wall filler to make the place feel a bit more homely, but ended up loving it plus, it matches out theme so well! So for the moment its staying put.
One of my favourite pieces in the whole house is the house plant. I knew I would want one eventually for the lounge and came across it by accident whilst shopping in Lidl (if you're not from the UK, Aldi & Lidl are basically food super markets which are ran by siblings who used to own one shop and then fell out and now own two separate shops both identical to the other...the small town we live in has one of each next to one another, its hilarious really...but also great as they sell great homeware and odd bits and pieces!) they were outside the shop for a bargain of £10.99! I bought the pot separately from Homebase for £9.99, but I'm obsessed with it. I even bought leaf wet wipes to keep them clean and shiny haha, (now let's just hope I don't kill it).
I am soooo happy with life at the moment and how the rest of the house is looking and and I'm even more excited to be able to dec my own house out for Christmas, eeek!!!
Whats been happening in your life recently?
Molly
xox
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