A Home

I think I've not posted about this before.

David and I bought our own place nearly a year after we got married in 2011. It's a double-storey link house. And it's 22 years old =.=!

Both of us took some time to search for a house that we can build a home. A place with enough rooms to accommodate our guests and children. Somewhere near my parents' and most importantly my in-law's place because we foresee my mom-in-law taking care of our children.

It took us about a few months viewing houses, bargaining prices with house owners and finally I made a call to a housing agent and viewed this current house that we finally bought. We had to fight for it against another couple who was viewing the place on the same day as well! But yah, it was so competitive that we had no choice but to pay the down payment there and then. What a business.

We were lucky to have my ex-tuition student's father, who is a property lawyer, helping us with all the paperwork. He gave us a special discount just because I taught his son :) So nice of him. We got everything settled in a swift with Mr Liu's lawyer firm. Thank God. I know nuts about all these papers. Only knew I had to sign about 30 pages worth of document that day.

After a few months, I got pregnant (heh!) so by Chinese tradition, no knocking and nailing and pregnant woman not allowed at construction site! So, we postponed renovation works. But as the days go by, we were determined to have our own place for our son as we do not have a room for him to sleep in if we were to still stay at my in-law's place. David contacted and dealt with the contractors everything on his own without my knowledge towards the third trimester of my pregnancy. Poor him ...

After months and many more months of wet work, design, furniture sourcing and some other stuff that I have no idea with (like wires and cables and stuff?), our house is finally in its final touches!

I'm meeting the painter to ask him to do some final touch here and there this weekend and then call the shops to get our furnitures in by our move-in date! Hope all is well and I'll be posting up pictures here soon! :)


XOXO,
theRascal