For many people the idea of buying a house, then spending over a year renovating it is a huge ‘NO GO’ area. The idea of both your evenings and weekends being taken over by stripping wallpaper, knocking down walls and ripping up carpets can be a burden on both your personal time and bank balance!! However for the rare few this idea can be one of the most adventurous and rewarding experiences to ever partake in.
For myself and my partner, buying our first home together was a huge step for us. We were fortunate enough to have already renovated a house previous to our own and learnt a lot of do’s and don’ts along the way. We were both brought up in ‘new build’ houses, small rooms and magnolia walls, so knew we wanted the complete opposite. On the same wave length, we started to search the market with our long list of what we wanted from our home and most importantly what we could afford.
This blog is for the rare few: I always get asked from friends for advice on how we did certain things in our home and often get told how beautiful it looks inside, therefore I have decided to create this blog as an aid for people in the same situation that we were in when we bought our first house, I will hopefully give you some useful tips, not only on how to renovate your house but also after all the dust settles, how to make your house into a beautiful home.
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