At last we have somewhere to live!! No more repetitive music at the hotel breakfast, no more extending our stay yet again and no more having to go out to find food every night. Yay!! The moving in process was quite painless - our real estate agent picked us up in a large vehicle, although I think even then they were as surprised as us to find out how much we have collected in our hotel room including not only what we arrived with but also what we have purchased on the way - prams for instance. After some discussions with the security we weer allowed to park in the underground car park and made good use of the pram to help transport the smaller bags up the lift.
I hadn't seen this flat and relied on Eleanor's advice that is was fine so I enjoyed looking around when we first turned up. It was mainly empty of furniture - not as easy as that sounds when renting here - and has plenty of space for our stuff. Job number one was to put together the bed that had been delivered from Ikea. Thankfully Curtis - a work mate from Canada - was around to help as this did not live up to Ikea's reputation of being simple and easy to put together and I was beginning to regret not paying the £10 extra for the delivery men to assemble it as well! Having worked for an effective £5 an hour we splashed out on some frozen pizza for tea while we waited for our curtains to arrive. In the meantime the landlord popped round to check out the list of items we had asked to be fixed and took away a few things we said we didn't. One such item was the only chair in the flat - a mistake which became apparent when the short man with the curtains turned up and looked forlornly up at the curtain rails way above his head. Cue some balancing on window sills and reaching up. One rail extended past the window ledge a couple of feet so I volunteered to lean precariously over to make the hook - only to find his hands firmly planted on my bottom to steady me - actually very helpful if a little forward. Curtains in place we happily headed to bed for our first night at home!
I hadn't seen this flat and relied on Eleanor's advice that is was fine so I enjoyed looking around when we first turned up. It was mainly empty of furniture - not as easy as that sounds when renting here - and has plenty of space for our stuff. Job number one was to put together the bed that had been delivered from Ikea. Thankfully Curtis - a work mate from Canada - was around to help as this did not live up to Ikea's reputation of being simple and easy to put together and I was beginning to regret not paying the £10 extra for the delivery men to assemble it as well! Having worked for an effective £5 an hour we splashed out on some frozen pizza for tea while we waited for our curtains to arrive. In the meantime the landlord popped round to check out the list of items we had asked to be fixed and took away a few things we said we didn't. One such item was the only chair in the flat - a mistake which became apparent when the short man with the curtains turned up and looked forlornly up at the curtain rails way above his head. Cue some balancing on window sills and reaching up. One rail extended past the window ledge a couple of feet so I volunteered to lean precariously over to make the hook - only to find his hands firmly planted on my bottom to steady me - actually very helpful if a little forward. Curtains in place we happily headed to bed for our first night at home!
So how many bathrooms did you end up with? Hope all is going well.
ReplyDeleteWe ended up with only two which is perfect as where the others were the landlord has fitted storage space and a small study - much more like what we need!
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