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So here it is, pictures of every room in the house. I’m specifically calling it a house tour, not a home tour because when these pics were taken it wasn’t a home, just a house.

But now it is a home and we’ve made a good start on the bathroom already! More pics of that to come.

Swoon at the black tiles in the kitchen! Such large spacious rooms (especially for our money)! Nice sized garden; perfect for vegetable growing, barbeques, chickens? But that wallpaper in the bathroom?? YUCK! Great to sell the house, but not to live with, and that’s why we started there first.

The day that I received the email from our solicitor to say they had received the keys to our new house I also received the ideal present through my letter box.

Nothing could be better suited to my mindset at the time.

I’ve been planning things in my head ever since we saw the house but now that we were days away from getting the keys I started to put some of those thoughts down.

And now, I have several rooms to do this for. Planning and browsing and researching and buying. I’m in interior design heaven right now. I think I just did a little wee from the excitment. Over share?

I’ve been renting now for 8 years, before that I lived with my parents. Not once have I been able to paint, decorate or even afford to buy what I wanted for a room. We now have a blank canvas and HELL, I’M GONNA GO CRAZY!

Here are all the rooms we have to play with. So. Many. Rooms.

The plan is to start with the bathroom, then I think the kitchen, hallway, stairs and landing, convert the store room to a proper utility room, lounge/diner and the bedrooms last.

I am so eager. I just need to take my time and get it right. I certainly won’t be getting into debt, as much as that dining table and chairs tempts me.

You’ve just bought a house. You go to pick up the keys. The house is officially yours. What else is there to be done?!

Earlier this year my boyfriend, Andy and I decided to start considering buying a house. We wanted to get advice on how much we could get from a mortgage company and then consider our options sensibly, but as soon as I mentioned the words “mortgage broker” to my mum she got extremely excited and started emailing links to rightmove, a hole which we fell right into! The house we’ve settled on was actually only the second house we saw. We were conscious of that fact though and made sure that we visited plenty more, but none of which could compare.

The process has been somewhat lengthy in my opinion, especially considering we are first time buyers with nothing to sell and the house was empty. But really it has come at the right time; we wouldn’t have been ready a month ago and we needed to give a whole paying months notice on our rental flat.

So finally this week came the end of the process, the light at the end of the tunnel! Firstly I got an email from the letting agent…

Of course I dumbed down my excitement and replied with professionalism, something to the tune of YAY!!!1! WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!111!!!!1!!!!

Then yesterday I got the email we’ve been waiting for from the solicitor to confirm completion of the house sale.

Again, more WOOOOHOOOOOOOOOing, and a bit of *does a little dance*.

So off I popped, on my lunch break, down to the estate agent’s to pick up the keys. Our keys. The keys to our own bricks and mortor. A place to call our own. Home sweet home.

Apparently, we have bought a prison…

How many keys can one house need?! So now I am Jailer Fowler, tasked with finding out what each of these keys is for and where the hell you get one of those huge prison guard key rings from! Perhaps most of them are for our secret dungeon where we can keep prisoners? Or for the turret where we keep a princess trapped forever until her prince comes to rescue her? And the dragon we use to keep the princess quiet.

But it’s true, we now own a house and damn, I am excited! Moving, decorating, fixing, BUYING STUFF, that’s all to come and I can’t wait.