Our New House!

Jay arrived to our new house in England on January 22nd. Finally, eight long weeks later, I have made it out here to visit him and check out our new home! I have to say, I was a bit nervous, but I shouldn't have been - our house and the local area are lovely!

We got right down to work these past couple days getting the house together - unpacking all of our boxes, shopping for furniture and odds-and-ends at IKEA and even the British equivalents of Home Depot (B&Q), Walmart (ASDA) and something similar to Target (Range). It's been exhausting and exhilarating all at the same time!

Here's a few pictures to give you a taste of our new home...

The front of our new house!

We're the left side of a duplex - the last one on a dead end street. (You can see Jay and our new car as well!)

Here's a view of our backyard (complete with the bird feeder Jay put together and the new fire pit we got today!)

We LOVE the fire pit!

Jay being super handy and putting together (with my help, promise!) my new dresser from IKEA (love that MALM!).

Our kitchen. Note the two separate faucets for hot and cold water. I was not a fan of the two taps. I found it incredibly difficult to wash dishes well using this system. I either froze my little fingers or nearly burned them off. But thankfully, Jamie is my hero and we found a "deck mixer tap" at the Brit Home Depot that did the trick and now we have one faucet - hooray! See...

YAY!

Our newly decorated living room - thanks for the bookshelves IKEA!

That's all the pics for now. I promise more once our couch and dresser come on Friday!

I'll also post some pictures of the local area tomorrow. We're heading into town to take care of a few errands - setting up my health insurance and opening a bank account for me, etc. and I'll be sure to take some good pictures!

Have a good night everyone!

Meg