House hunting blues

Last week the realities of life delivered another blow to our future family happiness. We'd found that rare thing, an almost perfect house and were due to move in at the end of the month. It was within budget and like a TARDIS inside, with a beautiful large living space, newly decorated rooms throughout and a garden. It was two mins from the station, five mins from our dream nursery and twenty mins from the in laws. We had paid the holding deposit and waited two weeks for our credit check to come through, I chased last week and the estate agent said yes we'd passed, so the house was ours. Except it wasn't. An hour later I had a message to call the agent back. My heart sank, I already knew something would be wrong, the wording he used wasn't "I've sorted out that second viewing you wanted so you can come and measure up", it was "call me". I was on a packed bus on my way back from a meeting at the British Museum with a colleague and wham, my heart was broken a little bit more. The landlord had rented our house to a family member who could move in immediately. Even though we'd paid the holding deposit and passed the credit check there was nothing we could do. Sometimes life really sucks.

So last weekend was a whirlwind of Internet searches and house viewings and (fingers crossed) we've found another. I'm not in love with it yet, my heart is still with the little red and white house that slipped away, but this new house has all the ingredients to make a lovely family home. I paid the deposit yesterday and we're waiting to hear back, so we'll see.

To keep me sane I've been creating a mass of Pinterest boards to find some inspiration.

Boards include:
New home (general bits and pieces we'll need once we move)
Rooms with red carpet (the house is all red red red carpet and cream walls)
Train themed bedroom ideas (for C's new big boy room)
Mint bathroom (the new place has a terrible retro mint bathroom suite)
Garden things (I can't wait to get some containers growing)
Toddler garden fun (we'll have space for the paddling pool this summer)