The combination of Christmas and moving into a completely empty new flat makes for rather busy times. However, it also means you have a legitimate excuse to go to a lot of after Christmas sales!
Perhaps I best back up a little. So Mark and I got the keys to our new place on December 19th, which was a Friday. The next day we went and got some paint, and got cracking on what we viewed as the vital personalization process. We painted the living room a yellowy beige, and the bedroom is a greeny blue. Or a bluey green, depending on which way you look at it. After then taking a week off for Christmas, we hit the sales down in Southampton (of all places) the day after Boxing Day. Mark's brother tagged along to provide valuable assistance! We went to John Lewis, sort of accidentally ended up buying a couch (with sofabed), a bed, two accent pillows for the new couch, a cute door stop, a coat rack, some scented candles and some tights. Well, the tights have nothing to do with the house situation. On Sunday we went to Homebase and managed to procur a table and chairs and attempted to purchase a coffee table and tv stand but the deals were so good they had run out, but we have our fingers crossed that more will become available! Oh, and we also got some wall art.
Yesterday I braved Oxford Street at lunch time and picked up some curtains for the living room. We have thus far been able to find curtains we like for the bedroom! But we have some old ones that we can use until we find ones we like. After a stop at the new place to lay out the new curtains and do some more measuring, we then placed an order for a washing machine and a fridge/freezer. The main items we still need are a dresser and some pendent lights to cover up our dangling (energy efficient!) light bulbs, that require special lights because they are so big and energy efficient that normal lamp shades are incompatible. I'm making a jaunt to Habitat on High St Kensington at lunch in a few minutes to see what I can find.
We haven't really done any moving yet, but the bed and couch are being delivered to Mark's parent's house on Friday and we're going down with a van on Saturday to pick up those and a few other items. We have the van from Friday night so we might try and do a bit of moving then as well. Moving on a Friday night, I know, we're so cool.
Anyways, that's pretty much where we are in the moving process! We will probably move once the new fridge gets delivered, which will hopefully be a week from this Saturday!
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3 comments:
Wow. Sounds as if you've been busy! Perhaps the tights will do a good job of covering the dangly light bulbs?
I want to see the flat!
I fear the possibility that the blue/green/greeny/bluey/whatever colour may be questionable in a bedroom context... :-o
after some research the different click in energy saving bulbs are so that you cant revert back to the cheaper to buy standard bulbs with the normal connections....this has been a government regulation for a couple years but still we cant find any covers we a)like b) in our price range
on a plus point the flat was quite warm last night when we delivered supplies and doesnt require any gas - which must be a plus seeing as russia has just shut off one of europe's main supply routes!
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