Where to Start....

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So moving swiftly on to this blog post.

So Where to Start........

This applies both to us and the house renovation, living room, bedroom, music room, windows, extension, etc,etc... and to starting this blog.  Neither of these being helped by the fact that I work away and Mr A plays in a Heavy Rock Band (Hybrid 9), in fact they were playing last night in Northwich.  All of which takes up time, as I said last time.....we need a plan!!

I'm thinking it's best to start at the beginning, we decided to sell our old house around October 2012 as we had seen a lovely building that had the potential to be converted into a awesome home.  Long story short, it was a commercial property (this became a bit of a theme in our house search!) and it wasn't possible for us to buy it :(

After this disappointment we thought we would take advantage of the lower purchase prices for houses and would see if we could sell ours to enable us to move on.  Anyway cutting a long story short (again!) and skirting over a number of heartbreaks, let downs and saying nothing of the 'interesting' selection of houses that we viewed, we found Our Forever Home :)  We moved in at the start of August and now we are settled in and 'sort of' unpacked!

So I thought I would do a quick round up of the house layout and save individual room tours and our plans for them for a later date.

This is the ground floor layout and was perfect for us as we had decided that we needed a pyramid (not an easy task unless you live in Egypt!!).  The previous owners had their business operating from the house, hence all the office space.

.......and this is the first floor, this shows the area of the original 1902 (we think) house and the 1970s extension that wraps around it can be seen on the ground floor layout.

These are the original layouts from the Estate Agent details, we have changes planned (in our heads only, nothing paper wise yet) but haven't updated the layouts.

The house is tucked away in half an acre in-between streets and the brook, it's a lovely peaceful setting.

So I going to sign off now with one final photo, I realised two weekends ago that we had been living in the house for a month now.  I have decided to chart the progress (or lack of) and the seasons with a monthly photo taken from a similar position as the first one.  So this is photo 1 - 09/2014.

If there's anybody out there, bye for now!

Netty :)

The Forever Home

So I've followed the example of my little sister by deciding to write a blog and going for it!! She writes an awesome blog about crafts, knitting and art. It can be found at knitwitsowls, if you are interested pop on over and have a read :)

I gathered my courage, have been brave, bitten the bullet and set up a blog to follow the renovation of our new Forever Home. I'm not sure if anyone will read this, but at least at the end of everything we will be able to see the progress we made and where we started.

This is a photo of Mr A and I in front of our Forever Home, it was taken on the day we got the keys.

The idea behind me doing this blog is to give me the inspiration to get going on the renovation and the motivation to keep going should I need it. So first to plan.....

I think that's it for now, I haven't decided how often I'm going to blog, whether it will be once a week or month, or just as and when we are doing things on the house. Any feedback or comments will be gratefully received, I'm making things up and guessing a bit at the moment!

If there's anybody out there, thank you for reading.

In the words of Arnold Schwarzenegger "I'll be back"!

Netty :)

P.S. I have finally managed to load my photo yay!! Its taken a week and trying on three different machines and 'old faithful' my ancient laptop has manged it.  It doesn't mean much to the rest of the world, but its been driving me mad since last Monday :)