Buying Our First Home

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Within the next year or so, my fiancee and I will be looking to buy our first home. It’s a daunting prospect to be sure, but I know we’re at the point of moving out of an apartment and into a house. It’s a natural progression for any couple who’ve been together for over a long period of time and know what’s needed next, and we’re not any different.

I’m not certain what our exact budget is or even what style of house we’re set on getting, but I do know that a few amenities of the home are nonnegotiable: a big kitchen with good lighting and an okay-sized backyard for the dog.

The kitchen is the most important to us, though, simply because we cook all the time. We try to cook every single evening and even breakfast on weekends. So, a huge majority of our time is spent in the kitchen with one another, and we’re tired of cooking in our tiny apartment kitchen.

We even want a nice island to have more room to work in the kitchen in case the countertops aren’t enough. It’s no wonder that this is a nonnegotiable for us simply because we spend a lot of our time doing it.

As for the yard, we’d probably prefer one that was fenced in since our dog isn’t great about being off leash. And we’re not even looking for a huge plot of land. I think something that butts up against some trees would be perfect for our own privacy and the sort of home we’re looking for.

I know one thing is for certain, though. Once we do settle on a home and go through with the buying process, we’re absolutely set on packaging supplies and furniture thanks to her father’s furniture store. Pretty much anything we could want or need, he’ll provide for us, and for that I am extremely thankful. And all the packaging supplies? He’s got them. Moving straps. Furniture blankets. Cardboard boxes. Packing tape. It’s all there, and he’s got nice moving trailers for us to use whenever we need them.

I’m pretty dang lucky when it comes to all of that stuff because I have friends who struggle to populate their home with any furniture at all considering how expensive it can end up being. The fact that we have enough hands in her family to help us move, too, is a huge boon.

Love Your Work Environment

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My office is in desperate need of an overhaul when it comes to the decorations I have (or rather don’t have, I suppose) and the supplies I’m housing in my desk.

You see, I’ve run short on packaging supplies and other office supplies that I’d like to have such as packing tape, manilla envelopes, staples, cardboard boxes, and even sharpies. These are all invaluable items that most people don’t think of renewing their stock on simply because it’s supposed to last for a long time (and so far, it has!).

But like I said, it’s not just the office and packaging supplies I’m in need of in my office.

It’s the stuff that makes my office feel homier that I wish I had more of. You know, the live-in sort of feeling that you love to have in your own home? I could use a coffee table to put in front of my couch. I could definitely use picture frames to hang on my walls (or even tapestries, large maps, or something to fill the barren expanses of my 4 walls). Heck, I’d love to have a desk lamp to complement the standing lamp in the corner of my room.

It’s really not that I need these things in my office so much as it is wanting them to feel more at home and more peaceful within the space that I work.

Let’s take storage, for example. I’d like a bookshelf to house some of my work books and also leisure reading that is overflow from my home. There’s something nice and commonplace about having a bookshelf in whatever room you type in, so why wouldn’t I have some sort of shelf in here with me? I love looking at books even if I’m not reading them.

The bookshelf would also double as a place to put certain decorative things on top of it. Whether it’s seasonal decorations or figurines that I may have collected in the past, bookshelves are great for showing off certain things that make you feel at home.

Finally, I think the biggest thing I’m missing in my office is a better desk. Right now I just have a plastic looking desk that was given to me by the office. I’d rather have something bigger, wooden, and beautiful. If you love the desk at which you complete the bulk of your work, well, you should theoretically have an easier time completing that work.

This all boils down to the concept of being more productive and happier if you enjoy the atmosphere and environment in which you work.