We’re moving
Its official we’re moving – this week contracts were exchanged on the sale of our current home Lancaster Towers and the purchase of … erm … what to call it … how about “Villa Lancaster”? It’s a mere 0.3 miles away from where we are now, so suffice to say not much changes in terms of friends, shops, schools etc. but its a new front door behind which is a whole heap of potential dressed up in 1980′s finest.
We’ve lived at Lancaster Towers for 9 years and we have re-done it from top to bottom, inside and out all ourselves. Lancaster Towers is a tall town house and Villa Lancaster is a wide house, it’s on a great south facing plot, a great garden for my smalls and with a garage for bikes, scooters and the like! I wish I had taken the time to at least photograph the before and after transformations, now I blog so I am going to blog our journey to our new house and its transformation into our home. It will be a journey, the house purchase blows all our savings, so we’ll be taking our time but the planning, considering, choosing is all so much fun – I see a lot of mood boards in my future!
We are leaving behind underfloor heating, stair lighting, a Quooker boiling water kettle tap, a Miele dishwasher *sobs*, a Whirlpool American Fridge Freezer, a Bosch washing machine and John Lewis tumble drier. I have all my laundry kit upstairs – carrying the washing downstairs is just ridiculous in my opinion – I will have to get used to that though but first I will need a washing machine to carry laundry to!
You see Villa Lancaster has got a lot of “spaces” and I don’t just mean the rooms, the garden or the garage which it does have – I mean literally “spaces” for a washing machine, tumble dryer, dishwasher, fridge, freezer, microwave – having sold all my appliances with Lancaster Towers are they were all built in my first challenge is to get me some white goods. I’m off to measure up (and take photo’s!) at the new place on Tuesday 19th July and we move on Monday 25th July so time is of the essence, just a tad!
I need to know what you are using, liking, disappointed by, lusting over when it comes to Fridges, Freezers, Washers, Dryers, Dishwashers and microwaves? Chest Freezers – yes or no? I’m watching some appliances on eBay – what do we think people, good or naff idea?
Category: Home Building | Tags: chest freezers, dishwasher, fridge freezer, Lancaster Towers, microwave, Moving House, tumble dryer, Villa Lancaster, washing machine, White goods 8 comments »
July 17th, 2011 at 9:36 pm
I have a fabulously gorgeous extra wide cooker by Lofra which we bought from ebay, and it is brill. I will only change it if I can have an Aga in the future.
I would love to have the big ol American sized washing machine & tumble dryer from Whirlpool which are extra large & have to be hard wired into the mains. (Had these in California when we lived there)
I would like an industrial type dishwasher which does the dishes in 3 minutes, but not sure which brand yet.
Have a wonderful adventure with your new home.
@DevonDeb
July 18th, 2011 at 6:54 am
I know what you mean about having a blog to document your journey, not sure what happened in my life BB (before blog) and certainly have little photographic eveidence of it!!
I too have a five ring Lofra, Italian beauty that she is although the compnay that used to import them to the Uk has gone bust (we discovered this when needing a new part for the door I broke) so not sure how easy they’d be to get hold of.
I have a Hotpoint ‘Ultima’ that we’ve had for five years now, it has a 7kg drum so great for big family loads, six is a big family
I don’t have a drier though through lack of space and green tendencies. I have a huge edwardian hanging wrack on the landing ceiling (that wew think is the only original thing left in the house), it dries for free and makes the stairs smell nice in winter. A bit like this repro; http://www.pulleymaid.com/edwardian_airer.htm
I don’t envy you the huge white goods/moving malarky, we haven’t moved since 1997 and it was hard enough with no small people and all the gubbins that comes with them!
Good luck, happy adventures xxx
July 18th, 2011 at 9:15 am
Miele, Miele, Miele, Miele! (and maybe Bosch too)
Have a look at this site – http://www.clearance-comet.co.uk/ ebay like bid concept for new, non-perfect goods, but there’s a full description of why they’re imperfect and more often than not, it’s a scratch on the body work that will be invisible once the item is inserted in to place. We got loads of proper bargains there when we last moved house.
July 18th, 2011 at 9:15 am
We have a small chest freezer in the garage and it’s a godsend. It means I can buy stuff on offer or at Costco and store it in there. It’s great at Christmas so that everything can get stored away and it means we nearly always have something if inspiration has deserted me. If you want to get organised, you can do batch cooking and freeze meals in advance. Bread and milk get put in there in the winter in case the weather gets the better of us too!
Definitely worth having one in my opinion. We bought ours second hand for £50 and it has definitely been worth the money.
July 18th, 2011 at 9:20 am
Wow Daisie, thanks so much for your input – I’ve actually got a pulley airer that I salvaged from an old house my Dad developed, it’s in the loft coming with us and at the new place I will have a utility room it can go in! A tumble drier may not be needed after all! Thanks again xx
July 18th, 2011 at 10:50 am
Chest freezers are great (ours is out in the garage) but do have the potential to be a dumping ground that you forget about
Am looking at appliances for a new kitchen Chez Muddling and have fallen in love with big fridge freezers with ice dispensers – I need one, right?
July 18th, 2011 at 11:18 am
Hey Hannah, I’ve loved my American Fridge Freezer with Ice dispenser for the last 9 years it’s kept me in perfect G&T’s! The ice maker does take up quite a lot of space in the freezer though but with a chest freezer in the garage nothing to worry about
. I’m liking this Hotpoint Quadrio http://www.appliancesonline.co.uk/product/FF4DX-Hotpoint-Quadrio-Fridge-Freezer-Stainless-Steel-15041.aspx?cm_mmc=Social-_-Facebook-_-_HotPointQuadrio sadly I don’t think I’ll have space for it in the short term anyway.
July 21st, 2011 at 9:48 am
I’m catching up with my blog reading and wishing you all the luck in the world with your move. I’m a Bosch girl, I think everything other than our oven which is John Lewis. I’m hoping we have space in our next house for a chest freezer, I have 2 drawers at the moment and I can’t get anything in them! Look forward to reading about your move xx