The search for a house
My girlfriend and myself have been looking for a house for about 1,5 year at the moment when we bought our first house. It has been a real struggle to buy a house in 2024, but we finally got our first house which makes ourselves really happy homeowners! Before this house we looked at about 20 other houses which we didn’t get to buy. This house fits our needs as it is still close to the fruit farm, and the garden and space besides the house allows for outdoor activities for ourselves.
The house we bought
The house we bougth is located in Limburg Netherlands near the city Venlo. build year is 1951, and it’s basically in the heart of the village as it is right besides the church. This house has been a rental house for the past 74 years and was originally designed to have the angled walls because besides the house there was another street. Luckily for us this street has been added to the garden a long long time ago which gives us a gigantic garden for dutch standards in the center of the village.
Move in or renovate
When we got the keys and looked arround, The house didn’t seem to bad for us. We discussed a while about what to do as we could just move in as it was. after some analyzing with some related experts we came to the conclusion that the moment right now is the moment to renovate the whole house. That is because once we live in the house we can’t do any decent renovations anymore, and only patch up room by room.
Since i like to do things well i said, we either do everything and make it our dreamhome, or we do nothing at all. So together with my girlfriend we decided to renovate the house completely as well as possible.
The big plan
Since a renovation is the way forward, and basically everything needs replacement as the whole utilities are 75 years at this moment it made sense to also make some more extreme designs and just don’t think about what you got, but think about what you want. We did that, and after alot of sketching the conclusion was made. We need to connect the living room to the garden to have a nice feeling in the living room. Also the kitchen needed some more space, and a connection to the garden. While doing so, it means sacrificing the storage area. Because a storage area for washing and so on is required a home extension was required so we decided to add an extension the the right side of the house where we can make the washing room, and expand the kitchen.
The front door would be moved as it’s in the wrong spot, and this would create a complete new entrance hall for the house. we can also make a toiletroom in here now, and a new connection for all the utilities.
Upstairs a new bathroom and toiletroom have to be realised as we are removing the old bathroom and toilet from the ground floor.