Moving into a new property is one of life’s great exciting shifts, bringing with you the treasures you’ve accumulated over the years to a place where you’ll create new happy memories. It’s also a stressful process: you’ll have a lot to organize and plenty of work to do in order to get your new home looking as you want to to look. This guide aims to ease all those stresses by laying out in plain terms all of the variables you’ll have to take care of when moving to a new abode.
Transport
You’re moving, which naturally means you’ll be taking all your belongings from one location to another. This moving process is long and arduous and enlisting the help of friends, family and delivery personnel will help cut down all the heavy lifting you’d otherwise encounter. Not only do you need to get everything packed and transported.
Removal services usually operate all in one day, which means you’ll have to be incredibly organized to save them waiting around burning a hole in your wallet. You should have everything labeled and ready to take its place in your home, and at this point you’ll become a flurry of pointing arms as you direct removal men, friends or family into different rooms with boxes and pieces of furniture. It’s a difficult part of the move, but strict organization helps it go off without a hitch.
Renovate
The above tip ends with you directing your belongings into all the rooms in your new home. But, if you expect to be doing some renovating once you’ve had your things moved in, then you’ll want to select a sizable room that you’ll not be touching so that you can store all your belongings into that. This will save you time and may well save you agonizing breakages of your most precious belongings.
Home renovation takes many forms, but even in minor plans there is some disruption. It’s not the way in which many people enjoy moving into a new home—feeling like they’re living on a building site—so be aware of the disruption that renovation causes before you move. On the other hand, you’ll not have a bare, new home to tinker with like this again, so why not seize your opportunity and go wild with planning ideas, adding lots more of your personality and character to the interior of your home.
Decorating
Whether you renovate or not, there’s still the pleasant and exciting stage of decorating your home to pass through before you feel truly comfortable in your new property. You’ll unpack all your boxes and set up all your furniture and still you’ll be looking to add touches of individuality to the layout, color palette, lighting and materials that comprise your home. You’ll be searching for decorating ideas and deciding on new styles you’d like to try out. In short, you’ll be putting together a mental picture of how you’d like your home to look.
To make this vision a reality, you’ll need plenty of organization. You’ll need to get tradesmen in to do the more skilled work, and you’ll need the right materials—in the correct amount—in order to move fluidly through your plans. You’ll require patience to wait for their jobs to finish or coincide, and you’ll need to be stern in your direction of hired help: they don’t have your vision, so you’ll need to prod them in the right direction. Overall, you should have fun with your interior decorating phase, taking advantage of the new-house possibilities to really stamp your unique personality on your home.
Technological Additions
A modern home isn’t super-modern without some smart tech. It’s the big thing in the housing market at the moment, accounting for some serious breakthroughs in how we conduct our lifestyles when relaxing at home. Perhaps the epitome of this is the home assistant – Amazon’s Alexa and the Google Home device, both of which are voice activated and can perform a wide array of functions to help you in your day to day life.
But, the innovation doesn’t stop there. You can install remote-controlled curtains and blinds, and self-frosting glass windows. You might consider installing an ultra-modern, slick and safe alarm system throughout your home, including small security cameras and contact links to your local police force. From high-quality, tablet-controlled audio installations to smartphone-enabled utility control, the technology that you can install in your home will make your life a good deal easier while gloriously modernizing the way you live.
Settling
That’s a lot of advice on various stage of upheaval, but at some stage you’ll have earned your time to relax, unwind and settle into your new home. Settling in, of course, doesn’t just mean feeling comfortable in your home’s interior: you should also make an effort to get to know your new neighborhood and, of course, the neighbors who live in it. Some will likely come round to your home to introduce themselves, but by being a presence int he neighborhood, you’ll quickly get to know the people on your street.
In order to ingratiate yourself quickly, consider joining the local clubs that operate with most of your street involved. There may be a neighborhood watch to join, or a local school transport scheme to enroll in for your children. Always present an open, engaging and friendly side of yourself when meeting neighbors, and you’ll feel wonderfully at home not just within the confines of your four walls, but out and about in your locality too. Be respectful, especially in your first few weeks in your new home, just to prevent anyone getting the wrong idea of your character, getting off on the wrong foot with you and your family.
Moving into a new home brings its own unique stresses and its own exciting possibilities. This guide should help anyone who feels they need a helping hand understanding the practicalities of moving home, showing you what you’ll want to get organized within the first week or two of your move.
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