Our Little Sanctuary

Welcome and Come In!

 

Ever since we moved in to our new house I haven't really shared much about the house move and the house itself. So it's time for me to share about our little sanctuary!
Welcome to 8 Makenade Avenue,our little sanctuary, our humble home. It is a semi-detached house and was built in 1935. It is near the train station, town centre, library, post office, grocery store and above all it is just 10-15 minutes walk to where I work. Perfect location!
The previous owners of this house were an elderly couple and has lived here for 50 years. They both love gardening that's why we have this lovely front garden, two green houses (one was demolished), and plenty of plant pots (big and small). hehe
Now we have lived here for just almost 4 months yet it feels like I've lived here 4 years. I fell in love with this house the first time I saw it on our first viewing. And of all the houses we viewed this is just the only house I felt at home and instantly saw myself living in here.
And how we got the house? Quite a chased! I felt so sure of the house even though there were so much to do to update it in a 21st century standard. I told my husband to put an offer but he wasn't sure so we left it for a bit. But because I am dying to get the house, I had a look again through the Internet and it said it has been taken out of the market! Someone has fancied it and put an offer!
I was so furious and upset. I rang the estate agent and alas! he confirmed to me that someone had put and offer and the owner has accepted it! I hurriedly rang my husband, nagged him and just like a brat, I asked him to do something to get it because I wanted it so much!
I was so disappointed and I cried to my mother in-law. And as always she supported me that the house is the right one for us. Actually she liked the house as well, she was the one who saw it in the Internet and told us. Now as I felt hopeless, all I did was prayed and thought if it is for us by hook or by crook we will get it and I left it in the hands of my husband.
He rang the estate agent and put an offer to the house guessing it was bigger than what the first bidder offered. The waiting game was tedious but thanks GOD he planned this house for us, our second offer was accepted! Hooray! We got it!
And since then our bank account hasn't been recovered! haha..Updating it is expensive yet we know in the long run when we've finished renovating our little sanctuary, it's gonna be worth it! :)

Now we are enjoying and happily living in this place we call HOME!

We've Got the Date!

Finally after all the hard work, packing and sorting out necessary things to make our move in to reality, and postponing many times, at last we've got the date! 27th of April 2012..oh yes, the date is tomorrow! *wink*
Hunny booked a van to rent yesterday and we are going to have it tomorrow from 8am to 5pm. Yes indeed tomorrow is an early start for us. Good breakfast tomorrow is essential as we have a heavy day ahead. We have to have plenty of energy to sustain us from all the moving,carrying and lifting heavy furnitures.
After that unpacking and sorting out is the next thing, so our weekend will be fairly busy. After tonight we are officially at 8 Makenade Avenue and not 5 Well Close no more..it will be a bit strange at first but I hope we'll settle quickly.
I feel happy that finally we are moving to our own place but at the same time sad as I will miss my parents in-law. I know we are not gonna move that far and seeing them wont be a problem at all, but I mean the usual stuff we are doing together. Like playing card games at night, my MIL's cooking, the laughter, the good pudding, the luxury of having different flavour ice cream (lol), lots of things.
Anyway I/we will make sure we are going to visit them often, I'll be calling my MIL often as well for some food advice and of course we'll make sure we wont miss the Sunday roast that often.*wink*

How about you guys what are you up to this weekend? Whatever you do, enjoy and have a happy weekend!

Bedroom Furnitures

Three weeks ago my husband ordered 3 bedroom furniture from B&Q and was delivered last Monday. Delivery date was a good timing as it was my day off, hubby took a day off as well so we could assemble the furniture straight away. I was excited as moving soon looks rather more promising..*wink*

Here are some photos we took while assembling our free-standing wardrobe and 2 chest of drawers:

Here's the 3 long boxes of our wardrobe and 2 small boxes for the 2 chest of drawers to be assembled...

Here's the excited owner looking or rather holding the instructions manual..lol

We decided to assemble the chest of drawers first as they don't seem to be as heavy as the wardrobe. It was a good first experienced and warmed us up in assembling the wardrobe..

Here's my hunny so engrossed of his assembling job..hehe

Time for a pose hun! *wink*

And there you go..the finish piece! Hooray! 

Next Mission, assembling the wardrobe! All the pieces ready but the man who's going to assemble it looks rather bemused..Long screwing ei?! Not to worry we'll ask another help from mum..lol

The manual said it needs 2 persons to assemble it but we reckon 3 is more sensible. Here's the first bit..looks promising ei?

We managed to stand it between the 3 of us and that lamp up there was a nuisance!

We are getting there, hunny is assembling the mirror bit..

And here's the nearly finished wardrobe..just need to fit the door tomorrow. We ran out of time and energy..lol

It was a good fun though and I enjoyed it a lot. Any furniture to assemble out there?Nyahaha! xx

Packing

Packing...one of the things you need to do when you're moving out. Rather tedious than I expected let alone I have to do most of it myself. I have started packing last week some of my husband's old stuff, my bags and some books. We still have plenty of things to pack still like our clothes and some more heavy stuff like furniture but yeah we are getting there.

Mr. Google photo

Although I am not very good in packing things as my patience runs pretty quickly doing this. I hate "fitting all of the stuff in one box" part, that's why every time we travel or go somewhere my hunny does most of the packing himself  (lucky me). In fairness to him, it is one of the many things he's good at *wink*. He knows where to put stuff and he has loads of patience in finding spaces.hehe..Me, I am more interested in unpacking!harhar..
But this time I am determined to do most of the packing myself on my day off's. I don't enjoy it much in all honesty but seeing all our stuff packed soon means moving to our own house is fairly soonish.. *wink*

Happy Weekend!