New home! New blog!

Hello,

This blog is about us (Me & my husband) & our new home & the journey to buy as little new stuff to furnish and decorate it as possible! Our budget has a lot to do with it we have been living in various furnished flats for the last 6 years and we have very little useful furniture. As we are moving into to our very own little house in about a week, we needed pretty much everything from beds and sofas to storage and pretty things to make it feel like a home.
So After many many hours spent on ebay, Gumtree, freecycle & preloved I cant believe that I ever consider going to Ikea and spending upwards & beyond of £2000 to furnish our little two bed house.
I will post a list of everything I was going to buy and then the things I have so far managed to find and how much i have paid for them and then over the next few weeks I will be renovating and tweaking them to our style(well mine really my husband is very much lacking his inner home & garden stylist). I will link my Pintrest so you can see what my inspiration is and the looks that I'm hoping to achieve.

This was my dream..........

So here it is the IKEA List...........

Product Description	Unit Price	Quantity	Price
EKTORP Three-seat sofa, Blekinge white Width: 218 cm Depth: 88 cm Height: 88 cm Article Number : 398.758.49	£295	update	£590	delete	Move to shopping list
LIATORP Coffee table, white, glass Length: 93 cm Width: 93 cm Height: 51 cm Article Number : 500.870.72	£180	update	£180	delete	Move to shopping list
ASPELUND Wardrobe with 3 doors, white Width: 131 cm Depth: 54 cm Height: 190 cm Article Number : 801.572.14	£140	update	£140	delete	Move to shopping list
ASPELUND Wardrobe with 2 doors, white Width: 91 cm Depth: 54 cm Height: 190 cm Article Number : 101.598.34	£100	update	£100	delete	Move to shopping list
HEMNES Chest of 3 drawers, white Width: 110 cm Depth: 51 cm Height: 97 cm Article Number : 200.678.29	£100	update	£300	delete	Move to shopping list
HEMNES Chest of 8 drawers, white Width: 162 cm Depth: 51 cm Height: 97 cm Article Number : 000.678.30	£200	update	£200	delete	Move to shopping list
HEMNES Dressing table with mirror, white Width: 100 cm Depth: 50 cm Height: 159 cm Article Number : 101.212.28	£190	update	£190	delete	Move to shopping list
HEMNES TV bench, white Width: 149 cm Depth: 47 cm Height: 57 cm Article Number : 601.762.99	£190	update	£190	delete	Move to shopping list
LINDVED Side table, white Diameter: 50 cm Height: 68 cm Article Number : 301.256.97	£15	update	£30	delete	Move to shopping list
LEIRVIK Bed frame with slatted bed base, white Length: 209 cm Width: 168 cm Footboard height: 98 cm Article Number : 598.876.29	£120	update	£120	delete	Move to shopping list
HEMNES Day-bed frame, white Length: 211 cm Width: 87 cm Height: 86 cm Article Number : 500.803.15	£260	update	£260	delete	Move to shopping list
HEMNES Console table, white Length: 159 cm Width: 40 cm Height: 74 cm Article Number : 001.762.78	£160	update	£160	delete	Move to shopping list
HEMNES Bench, white Length: 83 cm Width: 37 cm Height: 53 cm Article Number : 502.236.25	£50	update	£50	delete	Move to shopping list

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Total For This Order

£2,510

So After looking through how much we could afford the Ikea price tag was very much out of reach! 
I started looking on ebay and found lots of the things I wanted from my "List" within a 25 mile stretch and I started bidding, only to find that I wasn't to prepared to pay as much as some other people for old Ikea stuff! I was constantly being out bid and on a few occasions I was tempted to stretch my budget, but Christmas was coming and we really couldn't afford to so I stopped typing in Ikea and spent many many hours looking through listing and found that its the stuff thats been badly listed that I needed to look for and is how I have spent my January(not fun at all!) but over the last week or so all the things I have bought have been collected and its very exciting to see how much I have got for so little. 
The other things that have really inspired me are Pintrest & Ikea hackers I have found so many way to modify things we did have & some many great ideas for cheap pieces for furniture if we do have to buy them new which will still give me the look I wanted for a fraction of the cost.

I will post what I have Bought and my plans for it in Part 2................

See you soon Kx

P.S this is my Pintrest
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