Our first blog post! Our family bought our very first home and on Christmas Eve 2014 we were handed the keys after what seemed like a really long few weeks of paper work, phone calls and a bit of anxiety thrown in while waiting to see if it was going to be ours. It's been such a big dream of ours for a long time so it still doesn't feel real to us and we kept waiting for something to go wrong, but nope, it's ours and the kids are so excited!
Our plan for buying a house has always been that we want to renovate, to make a house ours and how we like. We rent a brand new house at the moment which we really don't like but we have loved previous old houses we have lived in, the character of them, the bigger yards and just how much hardier they are with children! We have two very awesome kids who we knew would help out and not hinder our work while we are renovating so I think that will help a lot. We also wanted to move to the town 20 minutes from where we are, because that's where hubby works so we changed our sons school which he starts at in 2015 and our daughter is enrolled in kindy across the road from school. Oh, and the house is 400m or a 40 second drive from them so Jack is very happy to be able to ride to school finally! As well as a nice big backyard, just over 1000m2, it gives us plenty of space for more sheds, a big play fort and lots of room for our dog, Sarge.
We also wanted to make sure we bought a house cheap enough that we weren't scraping the bottom of the barrel every week just to live, to still have fun and enjoy ourselves-not move in and have no money to renovate, holiday and all that awesome stuff. So it turns out that with mortgage repayments, rates and water we will still be paying less then the house we are currently renting (for the next 5 weeks). That's a massive win for us and we are so glad to finally have done it!
We will be updating this blog often with all the fun and not so fun times we have renovating-we have never done this before, but are very lucky Scott is a trade qualified house painter so he will have a great time sanding and painting the 11 foot tongue and groove walls over the next few weeks while sleeping in his swag there to get it done to move in!
So welcome to our little families blog, we hope you enjoy reading it and staying up to date on this adventure of ours, it's sure to be a great time and any input or ideas would be greatly appreciated if you would like to comment on anything, this is all a big learning game for us and half the time we are just googling to find out how to do stuff! Merry Christmas!
Amanda x
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| Our huge backyard! |
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| The day we got our keys, I think Scott's been waiting a long time to do this :) |
The funny thing with becoming a homeowner is that you usually end up paying less and you end up with your own home down the road. The downside is that you're going to be responsible for all the repairs. But overall, still worth it. Owning a home always outweighs the costs of maintaining it. And no landlords to deal with!
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