Monday, January 31

Tada!

My dears,
I have to confess I've been sitting on some exciting news. It's been killing me keeping it in but we had to make certain before I blurted it out to the internet. This news does not involve vomiting, pooing, crying or anything else baby related. Though it is baby blue in colour... Blog  readers here's our first home, first home meet my blog, I think you two are going to hear a lot about each other in time to come:

It's cute huh?!!
Baby blue, weatherboard, 1920's, wooden floorboards, high ceilings, fireplaces, 1000m2 garden, rustic sheds and in the country. Le blissful blissful sigh.
It's been a rocky road getting it. It has the misfortune of being on a tiny bit of a flood plain. You may have noticed floods have had a bit of bad press right now... That and buying a house is a complicated business. Seriously, they need to teach you this stuff in high school. Or give you some papers on it or something. Yes, some clear, not in jargon papers handed over in high school with a "keep this somewhere safe until you want to buy a house then read this and it will explain what all the crazy things you have to do and what all the big words that people start saying mean."
Aye me! Right. That feels so much better to have gotten off my chest. How did you find house buying (If you have indeed ever bought a house)?
I should add that as stressful as the whole business has been - we've been helped by some amazing people along the way. I believe we have met the most decent real estate agent in the world and both are families have been wonderfully supportive.
Anyway, enough about getting the darn lovely thing, here, have some average real estate shots of the interior and garden and swoon with me! (Ignore the beige and the curtains, look at the floorboards and the coloured glass in the front door!)

ps. I should clarify that we are not moving to the country this instant, we will be renting it out for a little while first. But I'm already dreaming up names for a dog when we move there!

26 comments:

  1. Oh Congratulations, this is so very, very beautiful!

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  2. Congratulations!

    Yes, house buying is insanely stressful:

    The first place we fell in love with and were gearing up to buy, we were reliably informed by our structural engineer was slowly sinking into a sodden claypan several metres underground.*

    The next place, the one we ended up buying, the tennant decided he's not leaving without a fight... and then the real estate agent had to call the sheriff to evict him. Arrrgh!

    But I suspect we were just unlucky, and hopefully others have had better experiences!

    *We eventually went back to look at the first house, and the cracks in the walls are now wide enough to put your entire arm though. You can literally reach in through the wall from the garden into the lounge room. So, as much as we loved it, we are happy we didn't press ahead, against the advice of the engineers.

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  3. Congratulations! It's gorgeous! Looks like you will have lots of room for a veggie patch too. May I ask what country area it's in? xo

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  4. it is a DREAM! Love it! We can we visit?!

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  5. Huge congratulations, it's GORGEOUS!

    Can't wait to see what you do with it ♥

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  6. Worth buying for the sheds alone. Dubs

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  7. Angela! it's just down the road from me, in Wagga.....

    Soph, that is an absolutely GORGEOUS house! (beige beGONE! bring on the paintpots) Enormous congrats; that is so very exciting. yes, intending to catch up with your folks very soon, so no doubt I'll get the whole inside story xxx

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  8. fantastic - and totally agree with Dubs - wow, now I have a niece with her own sheds - well impressed! xxxx aunty Di

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  9. oh congratulations on the purchase of your first home, it looks amazing. Is it too far from here?

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  10. Congratulations, it looks like a really beautiful home! I'm sure there'll be hours of fun to be had filling it with wonderful things!

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  11. Oh my.......she's lovely!
    Congrats Sophie, I cant wait to see what you do with her. Good luck finding ace tennants.

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  12. ooh .......nice sheds indeed...keep lots of stuff in those.
    seriously well done on getting on the rickety property ladder ( i should emphasise that i mean the ladder is rickety not this property ,,,i hope!!)
    Can't wait for our next visit for a proper viewing.. Uncle R xxx

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  13. Wow Soph its beautiful, my parents once brought a house based largely on the wooden benchtops in the kitchen (that's how I remember it anyway) and I reckon floorboards like that would be enough for me! How log are you looking to ret it for before moving in?

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  14. Only found you today but am so thrilled for you. Gorgeous house, how proud you must be, enjoy ;)

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  15. oh its beautiful!!! the prefect country cottage! bet you cant wait to pack up and become real country folk :)

    kel x

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  16. Congratulations! It is gorgeous! Buying is stressful for me mostly due to arrogant real estate members, you gotta be tough with them ha ha. You'll be a pro next time round :)

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  17. oh wow, how exciting! it's just gorgeous!
    i'm a little bit jealous. i love living in the city but i think there comes a time when everyone wishes they had their very own patch of grass :)

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  18. Congratulations!! Your new home is absolutely beautiful!! :D

    *swoon*

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  19. huge congratulations!! how wonderful! & exciting! looks idyllic. x captn

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  20. Congratulations Soph! It looks really really lovely! Such a lovely garden, floorboards and I love the colour. Just gorgeous! I haven't attempting the house buying thing myself, far too scary, I reckon a school manual would be ace! Lots of love Lara xx

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  21. i am so behind the times - belated congrats! i have always dreamed of owning a house like this. I am going to live vicariously through you!

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  22. Congratulations, your little blue house is gorgeous. So unbelievably cute.
    Congratulations to you both, hope you are very happy there (with your future dog!) xx

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  23. Such a lovely little house, both inside and out!

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  24. How absolutely adorable! Those floors are amazing too. I hope to own a house such as this one day, as opposed to the boring cookie-cutter one we have now :)

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  25. Hello, would you mind sharing the color used on the outside of the home?

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