Our new flat!

krooton

krooton

krooton

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After 3 months of trying to get a look inside our unfinished flat, just to do measurements for curtains and the like, we've finally been let in to have a nose. :D

Hope to be moving in at the end of the month, yay!

EDIT: Completed pics
 
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lol Kawolski....

Tip if the significant other says it's time to repaint the walls you should know it also means changing carpet, couch, curtains to match the new wall colour :D
 
The heater is there because they don't put them under windows any more, and anywhere else would get in the way of furniture placements.

It's in Morden, SW London.

£153k with a parking space.

Buzzing indeed!

Can't wait for the flooring to go in.

We've already got everything we need or on order apart from the bedroom furniture (we have a bed and mattress awaiting delivery).

Can't wait to get out of the hole that is renting, £34k I have spent on other people's mortgages over the past 8 years!!
 
Bedroom looks claustrophobically small, kitchen and living space looks nice, kitchen especially. Bathroom would drive me nuts.
 
Really nice - i like the size of the rooms and the layout. I've had an apartment but the rooms were small and there wasn't much natural light.
 
jas72 said:
lol Kawolski....

Tip if the significant other says it's time to repaint the walls you should know it also means changing carpet, couch, curtains to match the new wall colour :D
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We've already discussed colour co-ordination of the rooms, and have purchased stuff in line with that.

Lounge/kitchen area will be black and silver. Black glass and silver computer desk, tv stand and dining room table. All glass coffee table, mink (greyish) fabric sofa-bed, and silver blinds. Walnut flooring.

Bedroom will have cream carpets, walnut furniture, leather bedstead, dark wood blinds, and aubergine (purple) bedspread and curtains.

Bathroom will have lime green floor mat, bin and toilet brush holder, with his and hers (pink and blue) towels.

We aren't planning on painting any walls yet, as we have to wait 6 months before we can.
 
paradigm said:
Bedroom looks claustrophobically small, kitchen and living space looks nice, kitchen especially. Bathroom would drive me nuts.
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Bedroom is smaller than we would have hoped, but it's big enough for what we need, and we are going for big mirrored wardrobes to make it look bigger.

Bedroom size is so important when house-sharing, but less so when the whole living space is yours. The lounge area, excluding the kitchen, is 4m squared.

Yes it's pokey, but it's our first place, in London, and within our budget, so we aren't going to complain. :)
 
Grats on getting a new place but a couple of things would worry me, being next to the tunnel is asking for trouble as is being a ground floor flat, i don't know the area this is in but i hope all works out well.
 
Congrats on the place! Looks like it will be a nice flat!

:eek: at the price but that is what you get for London! I couldn't do it personally!

Don't forget to post pics when you're in and decorated!
 
Firestar_3x said:
Grats on getting a new place but a couple of things would worry me, being next to the tunnel is asking for trouble as is being a ground floor flat, i don't know the area this is in but i hope all works out well.
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Tunnel is for residents of the development only, and this is the first phase, so there won't be any through traffic for at least a year.

As for sound proofing, the only worry that might happen is the flat above us.

Area is a sleepy suburbia, the road is much quieter than most in London, the bus stops running at 8pm. The flat next to ours (other side of our bedroom wall) is the show-flat, and as such will be unoccupied until the entire development is finished (3 years), by when we will probably be looking to move to a bigger place.

I've vetted it as much as I can, and the positives far outweigh the minor negatives. Tunnel means that telly/computer noise aren't going to bother any neighbours, and show flat means our sleep wont be impacted either.

Go in a zone, and a similarly specced flat would be £50k more, back on to a large hospital (noisy!) and front a VERY busy main road.

A similar flat in Zone 2 from the same developer goes for £325k!!!

Much prefer to live in a sleepy suburb, and mission in to town if I want nightlife and stuff. Walk-able distance to a tube station too!
 
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