It Is Almost A Real House Now

The house is coming together nicely! I have been very busy decorating, painting and assembling furniture, there is still loads more to do but I am enjoying it :) I still haven't got round to taking actual good quality pictures of the house, but I made a collage of some of the ones I took on my phone.

 Left to right: 

1. Wrapping paper from Paperchase I used to line the inside of my kitchen cupboards

2. Kitchen window with flowers my mum got me (from their garden!)

3. Sofa cover, I went for off-white instead of pink in the end

4. Curtain between the living room and bedroom, you can't see the leaf print very well but it looks amazing!

5. The table! I love it so much. It folds out twice as big as this. The little stool is also new, the colour fits perfectly with the rest

6. Wardrobe. I bought it from a charity shop, it was dark brown wood which was super depressing so I painted it mint with coral details :)

7. Book case and birdie chair. This isn't new stuff, I've had these things in my old flat for ages but they look so much nicer now that they have more space

8. Owl-shaped drawer knobs I found in Paperchase. I love them so much.

9. Teapot that I bought today at the Emaillekeizer on the Albert Cuyp market :)

10. Lamp in the corridor

11. Fabric for the living room/kitchen curtains :D I had been struggling to decide on a fabric for a few weeks, I thought a plain colour would make the house too serious but at the same time I didn't want to a print I might get tired of. These retro trees have a bit of a Scandinavian design feel about them which is exactly what the house needs

12. And what will truly make my house a home, my girlfriend who I have known for exactly a year and two days today :)

What Will Go Inside My Dream House

Luckily I already own quite a lot of furniture even though I've lived in tiny flats up until now, I have a beautiful double bed, an enormous bookcase, a sofa, several chairs and tiny tables and cabinets etc, but the new house still demands a few new things.

First of all I needed to pick out a floor. I decided to go for lino as it'll be easy to keep clean and it comes in pretty prints. For the livingroom/bedroom I picked this wood print. I really like the different colours of wood, I want to avoid having the house look too neat and polished.

 

I've always wanted a kitchen with a checkerboard floor! This one is so perfect. I'm also going to put this in the corridor.  

 Obviously a new house also asks for a trip to Ikea. I have an Klippan sofa that my parents gave to me when they bought a new one, it currently has a black cover which I do not hate but think is a little bit too dark for what I want to do with the house, so I'm considering this pink cover. I am still not sure though, I have to see it in real life. Would it be completely ridiculous?

One thing I really need to buy is a proper table. Because the house is quite small I'm going to go for this adorable fold out Ingatorp.

There is no wall between the livingroom and bedroom, so I've decided to divide them with a curtain in this pretty leaf design. Cat had the amazing idea to dip-dye it. I'm not sure which colour I'll use for that, I'll have to wait until I've moved in to see what will fit.

Moving Into My Dream House

A bit over a month ago I logged in on Woningnet, just to see which houses were on this week. I've done that loads of times before, never with the intention to actually apply for them. This time though, there was a little ground floor house with a garden in the city centre. It was hard to tell from the pictures what it actually looked like, and the description only focussed on the negative things like the lack of sun, but I immediately knew this was my house. I applied and ended up in the first position, meaning that if I wanted the house I could have it. But then I got an email saying there had been a mistake, and the house wouldn't be available. I struggled to understand this as surely it was my house?
The next week the house was listed again, and I applied. I ended up in the number 2 position. When me and Cat went to view the house, there was no doubt left for me, this was my house, our house, the house we were going to live in together. Fate seemed to agree with me, and the lady who was number 1 chose another flat in the same street on the 3rd floor. Cat pointed out that I basically described this exact house in a blog post I wrote last year.
I got the keys last Thursday, and have started painting immediately. I will blog about the progress, so expect me to turn into an insufferable interior blogger for the next few months.

I only have semi-shit phone pictures to show now, but I'll take some better pictures when I've put the floor in on Saturday.

 Living room. I am not sure yet which colour to paint the windowsill and the door.

My bookcase will fit right in that little corner :)

I have a slidey door! It looks like this now:

A brand new kitchen had just been put in, and it really didn't look bad at all but I am a huge perfectionist when it comes to my house so I painted everything and turned it into this:

 

Turquoise and tangerine with light blue walls! (The tangerine was Cécile's idea, doesn't it look amazing?)

 

It will look beyond amazing once I've put all my stuff in there and add the black and white checkerboard floor ♥

 
And finally my beautiful garden. It needs some tender loving care, but I have a TREE. And actual piece of nature, all to myself! I'm planning on putting in loads of succulents, and to grow some of my own vegetables and spices. Eventually I will put up a shed/garden house in the little corner but that is a plan for the future.