The new house
From floorplans to moving day montages, here's a near-complete 'before' picture of our first (owned) home
Can you believe we’ve lived in our Wiltshire house for nearly four months now? The time has flown and while it feels like not much has changed, writing this and looking through all the pictures of then vs now confirms it has! Mostly, the ‘change’ is just the chaos and mess of daily life taking over previously empty, tidy rooms, and also the repercussions of an unorganised, half-job approach to decorating. Half the rooms are currently half painted and the other half are housing all the tools and crap for the not-even-half-started DIY projects. Anyway! I thought it would be fun - mostly for me but also maybe for any other newbie renovators, interiors enthusiasts and nosey Nancys - to lay out all the ‘before’ stuff before we get too far along to remember what that looked like. Here goes…
A bit about our house in the Wiltshire countryside
Our new house is a 1930s semi with four bedrooms (one is a box, one is the loft conversion, and the other two are doubles), two bathrooms (including an en-suite), a living room, kitchen/diner and a conservatory. Outside, there’s a brick side building that was previously used as a workshop, and a long grass garden with a patio at one end and greenhouse and raised beds at the other. The house is totally liveable and well looked after, it’s just a bit tired and not our style, so every room is being ‘redone’. We’re not tearing down walls or anything (ever if Alex is reading this, yet if not) but we have got some less-far-down-the-line plans that require power tools. For now, though, it’s mostly about breathing new life into the otherwise lovely rooms with light repairs, paint, flooring and furniture (LOL, one day). This is of course all much easier to visualise with some visuals, so I’ll show you what I mean with a bunch of photos.
You are going to have to be a paid subscriber to see the rest of this post. Below the paywall, I’m sharing all the estate agent pics and floorplans, as well as some videos I filmed on moving day and snaps of what we’re working on at the moment, which feels like not the kind of thing you just publish on the internet for any Tom, Dick or Harry to peruse. Plus, this post took me a jeffing long time to create…