Before we left the UK, I did a video walk around of our house. Mark asked what the devil I was doing. I clearly remember saying ‘well, houses in New Zealand won’t look like this, will they?! No, they surely don’t!
I then planned to do another walk around video once we had bought a house, and put our furniture into it.
So, here they both are. What an amazing contrast, even if I do say so myself! Continue reading “House comparison: UK v NZ”
Here we are again. I feel like we have lived our lives out of boxes lately. In fact, we probably have. We didn’t bother unpacking everything that arrived out of our shipping container, there really was no point. We knew that we would not stay in a rental for ever, lining someone else’s pockets with silver isn’t really our thing, but it served a purpose at the time. Continue reading “The (final?) big move”
Yes, after a stressful few weeks, in many ways, I think we are not ALMOST the proud owners of a house, at last!
We decided to have a little look at what houses were about, and how the house buying thing works here in New Zealand. They seem to go for the open homes idea, where each house that is for sale is open for viewings for 30 minutes, usually on Saturday.
Continue reading “Open homes: the garage sales of house buying!”
This was the major event this weekend. I was originally going to rent a furnished house, which in fact are hard to come by and cost a lot of money. The staff at work insisted that I didn’t do that, and were confident that between them they could lend me enough furniture to furnish a house while I wait for my boat to sail round here! Continue reading “House move: my own four walls at last”
