In one month's time, I will be sitting in my new house.
It really hit home for me today. You can tell by my sporadic posting here that, while I know I'm buying a house, and it's super exciting and all, it's not quite real.
Today I woke up and thought- this time next month, I'll be a home owner.
I looked around the house we're renting, and thought about all the things I'd change if it were mine (well, to be honest, I'd knock it down and start again, it's been so neglected in the years before we got here, that there was nothing we could do to rescue it even if we'd wanted or been allowed to!). And I realised that in a month, if I walked down the hallway and thought the skirting boards needed a paint, well, I could do it!
My list of things I need to do to the house, or get for the house, is growing ever longer, but in a good way. The living area and office are beginning to take shape in my mind, and I've started to think what furniture I want in there, what colour schemes.
In one month, expect posting to go from once a month, to several times a week. I've had a long and frank conversation with myself about how my days of lazing on the sofa in front of the TV are over- at the very least, each week I'll be tackling something new at the house- whether it's painting fences or recovering furniture or hanging pictures, I'm going to be busy. And I plan to blog about it every step of the way.
Right now I'm in the glorious position of having to keep in mind things like whiteware. Who would have thought I'd get excited about buying a fridge and a washing machine and dryer? And who would have thought there'd be so many options!
Soon I will have to get my head out of my daydreams and my nose out of the home and garden magazines that are forming in stacks around my bedroom, and into the reality of it all. And I can't wait! I know I'm talking into a void right now, but hopefully along the way, some of you will become readers who follow through my progress with me, and help keep me on track when I complain that I'd rather spend the weekend watching trashy TV than sanding table legs!
Here's to the future!
It really hit home for me today. You can tell by my sporadic posting here that, while I know I'm buying a house, and it's super exciting and all, it's not quite real.
Today I woke up and thought- this time next month, I'll be a home owner.
I looked around the house we're renting, and thought about all the things I'd change if it were mine (well, to be honest, I'd knock it down and start again, it's been so neglected in the years before we got here, that there was nothing we could do to rescue it even if we'd wanted or been allowed to!). And I realised that in a month, if I walked down the hallway and thought the skirting boards needed a paint, well, I could do it!
My list of things I need to do to the house, or get for the house, is growing ever longer, but in a good way. The living area and office are beginning to take shape in my mind, and I've started to think what furniture I want in there, what colour schemes.
In one month, expect posting to go from once a month, to several times a week. I've had a long and frank conversation with myself about how my days of lazing on the sofa in front of the TV are over- at the very least, each week I'll be tackling something new at the house- whether it's painting fences or recovering furniture or hanging pictures, I'm going to be busy. And I plan to blog about it every step of the way.
Right now I'm in the glorious position of having to keep in mind things like whiteware. Who would have thought I'd get excited about buying a fridge and a washing machine and dryer? And who would have thought there'd be so many options!
Soon I will have to get my head out of my daydreams and my nose out of the home and garden magazines that are forming in stacks around my bedroom, and into the reality of it all. And I can't wait! I know I'm talking into a void right now, but hopefully along the way, some of you will become readers who follow through my progress with me, and help keep me on track when I complain that I'd rather spend the weekend watching trashy TV than sanding table legs!
Here's to the future!
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