This time next week...

by Roz

As you read this post we only have 7 sleeps before we get the keys to our new house!!  I may be slightly excited :)  At some point in the future I'll be hanging out under the stoop with a glass of wine and a good book watching the world go by...

I had hoped to share a bit more detail of our house move and design plans before now but this year has disappeared in spectacular fashion.  There have been a lot of low points for us in 2013, so I've been focusing a lot of time and effort into our forever home and I can't wait until we get the keys.  I'm holding off sharing too many pictures of the inside just yet, as the ones I have are full of the documents, photographs etc. that belong to the company that currently own the property.  There will be all the photos taken when the property is ours and empty though!!  I may go a little crazy on Instagram this time next week, you have all been warned.

I thought might be fun to share a few of the things I'm most excited about:

• Designing our walk in wardrobe - we are taking a whole room and turning it into a big ass closet of dreams!  It even has it's own window and there are grand plans for putting some of my designer bags on display.
• The library!!!  A whole room FULL of all the books*.  This is going to be up in one of the attic rooms and I can already picture the floor to ceiling shelves in my head.  The room even has a fireplace.  To quote one of my favourite people, Le Sigh! 
• The wine cellar.  B and I used to be quite into our posh wines but I can't remember the last time we spent more than £5 on a bottle, oh no wait I can.  We only have a few bottles to grace the shelves but I can't wait to design what will in effect be a posh cupboard just for the wine.
• The entrance hallway, it should really set the tone for the whole house.  No pressure then...One of the first things we are going to do when we get the keys is rip up the, many layers of, carpet in our hallway.  B thinks I'm crazy to hope that the original tiles will still be there, if they are I'm sure you will hear my woop of delight :)
• Designing our master bathroom & en suite - oh the tiles, the shower, the lights.  There are so many good bathroom ideas I'm lusting after on pinterest.
• Buying a super king bed and sleeping like a star fish (see what I've done there?!?) forever more!

However buying a grade A listed town house that's currently used as an office was never going to be the smoothest of purchases. Here are a few of the things that have raised our blood pressure:

• Trying to find someone that will remove our 5 storey fire escape. Seriously people that is a lot of metal to throw away.
• Complying with oodles of random building regulations!  
• Finding out that we have to fit a sprinkler system!  Now that's a lot of £££ that was not in our original budget (think of the price of a small car and then double it!!!)
• Having heated arguments discussions about what work we can do ourselves to save money and which jobs may actually kill us!
• Seeing our move in date move ever later as all these things mean less money to fit the necessary fixtures such as a kitchen and new boiler.  Never fear the glamorous moving in party will still happen at some point.

We will be enjoying a chilled bottle of this bad boy (sitting on cushions on the floor!) at about 6pm next Thursday, feel free to raise a glass and join us :)

Roz xxx

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