Today marks a very major milestone for me: the Clever Boyfriend and I just bought our very first house!
Well, ‘house‘ is probably a polite exaggeration. Really, it is a teeny tiny apartment (which by Cambridge standards probably equates to a sprawling estate in other, less spatially-challenged cities), but it is right in the city, on the top floor, filled with light, minutes from the station (so I can be in central London within the hour), and even has a little balcony (roughly the size of a postage stamp) for planting herbs and having morning papers and brunch outside on weekends.
But, most importantly, it is all ours!
As a compulsive over-sharer, it has taken all my restraint to keep this quiet until now. But conscious of how drawn-out and boring these things can be, and for fear of things falling through at the last minute, I didn’t want to share the news until we’d signed that big stack of paperwork (so.much.paperwork).
We complete and collect the keys next week, and then have less than a week to move, set up, and gather an entire house worth of furniture, fittings and accessories before we leave our current place (all while holding down our day jobs). The timeline and ‘to do’ list gives a mild control freak like me palpitations (eg. I don’t even know where to start with setting up a wardrobe system to fit the space…), but I am so excited to get stuck in and to turn that blank, empty canvas into a cosy little space that feels like our very own home.
I hope you won’t all mind me adding a new interiors section to the blog (to share the stages as I go, as well as new treasures I discover and love), but please do let me know if you have any comments, questions, suggestions for wonderful places to buy treasures for the home, or first-house-buying wisdom of your own!
Love, Miss B xx
Congratulations!!! Please share pics with us if you can!!!
Thank you so much Emmy!
B xx
Congrats! Nothing beats the feeling of just having bought your first place together. Wishing you a wonderful time in your new home. Looking forward to some blog posts about it 🙂
Thank you Claudia! It is a pretty great feeling 🙂
B xx
awww, congratulations! your new home sounds so perfect and ideal. this is such a momentous occasion, of course you should post it for all of us to see!
love, arielle
a simple elegance
Thank you so much Arielle!
B xx
Congratulations, Briony! Thrilled for you and very excited about your new interiors feature. 🙂 Best of luck with the move, I just went through it in March- it’s an overwhelming and stressful process, but SO worth it once you’re settled in to your new, lovely home.
Thank you, Kathleen! Hope yours now feels like home!
B xx
Congratulations! Really looking forward to a new interiors section. Can’t wait to read more x
Thank you, Lauren! Stay stunned for my interiors posts in a few weeks/months.
B xx
Congratulations! There’s so many emotions involved when you buy your first home; excitement, nerves, feeling terrified of the commitment, yet utterly overjoyed, the list continues. It’s an indescribable feeling to have something that’s your own, that you can put your own little personal touches to. I can’t wait to see what you have up your sleeve & will be waiting eagerly on Instagram!
Thank you so much! And you have captured the process exactly!
B xx
Oh congratulations doll!! For fear of also cursing it before all of that paperwork is complete, I will not say but only hint at my fiance and I also having just [hopefully] purchased our first place as well… so I am so very excited to see what design tips you can offer on here! And your postage-stamp-sized balcony sounds just divine. Enjoy it!! xx
Thank you, Emily! And good luck with your own; I hope it is all going as planned!
B xx
Congrats on the new place girl! This is such an exciting time for you! Can’t wait to see pictures of the new place.
Lauren xo
Sophisticated In Style
Thank you so much, Lauren!
B xx
eek this is so exciting! massive congrats to you both 🙂
i for one can’t wait to see your interiors posts.
becky,
accooohtrements.wordpress.com
Thank you so much lovely Becky!
B xx
This is so exciting, congratulations B, I’m sure your place will look fabulous! Think of all the fun decorating! Can’t wait to see pics!
xx
B.
Thank you so much darling!
B xx
Congrats!
Currently looking myself – so I know the torture of trying to keep quiet! 🙂
Hmm maybe…
Thank you, Emma! And good luck with your own house-hunting!
B xx
Comgratulations. Please do create an interiors section!!! I’m so nosy, I love having a look at other peoples houses.
Love Alana xxx
http://www.alana-says.blogspot.co.uk
Haha, I’m the same (posts about other people’s homes are my favourites), so I’ll do my best to oblige here!
B xx
Congratulations, that’s so exciting! I hope the move goes smoothly for you & I look forward to seeing interior posts!
Thank you, Emily!
B xx
So happy for you, congrats! Can’t wait to read your home-related posts =)
Thank you so much!
B xx
How exciting! That blue door is so dreamy…can’t wait to see some more pics!
M x
Thank you!
B xx
I’m so incredibly excited for you both!!!! I can’t wait to see how you end up decorating your corner of the world 🙂 I know this has been such a long and drawn out process, but it’s going to feel so good when you crawl into your bed in your own house that first night!!! So happy for you!!! Xoxoxox
Thank you so much darling! We are so excited about it all (and will definitely be coming to you for tips!).
B xoxo
Congratulations! I cannot wait to see how you will decorate!
Thank you Michelle!
B xx
B! I’m so happy for you! I can’t wait to see photos of the place and I love seeing ALL THE DETAILS of the decorating process!
Thank you so much! I love the same kind of posts too, so I’ll try my best to post all my favourite bits.
B xx
Congratulations!
http://jeansandroses.blogspot.com/
Thanks!
B xx
I cannot wait to see photos of your new home! Congratulations! I have also gone through the home buying process it is stressful, exciting and exhausting but so worth it!
Thank you so much! And you are spot on; it is all of the above!
B xx
Massive congratulations lovely- this is so exciting! I feel a Cambridge picnic in order to celebrate! xxx
Thank you so much!!
B xx
Congrats B! So happy for you…decorating and making it your own is the best feeling! My advice would be don’t to buy everything at once….leave a few things like pictures etc to evolve with you – I found a few things I bought excited at the beginning are now so not me! I wish Id waited a little longer for my interiors taste to develop…x
Thank you so much Alex! And you’re absolutely right. I’m starting with only the big stuff, and working my way down from there (meaning it will take a few months to feel ‘done’, but hopefully it will be more cohesive and ‘us’ as a result).
B xx
Congrats! Can’t wait to see the pictures soon!
-Katherine
http://thegreenbows.blogspot.ca
Thank you Katherine!
B xx
This is amazing news, congratulations! I hope you can share some of your interior decor finds with us!
http://www.foodfashfit.com
Thank you! Stay tuned for some interior posts soon!
B xx
congraulations!
http://www.fashionforlunch.net
Thank you!
B xx
Lucky you!!Enjoy your new home 😉
xoxo
Comtesse Sofia
Thank you!
B xx
Congrats! That door is stunning!!
Thank you Tara!
B xx
congratulations! having your own place with your partner is so exciting – being able to decorate together and really call it your home.
http://heyprettything.com
Thank you; I am so excited!
B xx
Congrats!! Cannot wait to see more of it 🙂
XO,
Jackie
http://thejedition.blogspot.com/
Thank you so much Jackie!
B xx
Many, many congratulations to you both! Looking forward to seeing ‘through the keyhole’.. !
Thank you so much lovely!
B xx
Congratulations to you both! I love the door, it’s so you!
saw your bookcase on instagram and fell totally in love, it is the most beautiful presentation of books ever xxxx
Aww thank you so much! Hardly any of our furniture has arrived yet, but we do have bookshelves, so all is well. Priorities… 😉
B xx
oh my god..
am i obsessed with you blog!
I loveeee it!
You are so amazing and awesome!
<3 Congrats on your new "house" 🙂
Aww you are too kind, but thank you!
B xx
If that’s our front door, I cant wait to see the interiors, so no, I really don’t mind, and am looking forward to, an interiors section on your site 🙂
Aww, thank you so much!
B xx
There is nothing better than owing your own place. Make it the best place on the planet!!1 All the best!!
I will do my best!
B xx
Oooh congrats! I’ve moved into my own apartment with my boyfriend this spring and it’s been so fun renovating and decorating the place, there is no better feeling than realizing that it’s all ours!
I’ve always been interested in interior design but owning my own place really sparked the need to blog more about it as well! I’m so looking forward to seeing interior updates on your blog! xx