Finally moving house!!!

[Demon Cleaner]

Nice man, although I wouldn't be the biggest fan of the garden, I absolutely hate gardening myself.

[Harrison]

It definitely takes motivation to work on a garden and keep it nice.

Our existing house, being a new build, has a fairly small garden and we have always hated how restrictive it is, especially for Tom to play in.

When looking to move one of our main aims was to find somewhere with a much bigger garden. We have lots of plans for it over time. One of the biggest is to build a cabin in the garden that can be used as an art studio (Annabel wants to get back into pottery so that would be great to house a potters wheel) and also for painting, screen printing etc.. I've always wanted a dedicated art studio space for this.

Also at the moment the previous owners had the bottom of the main garden as a vegetable garden. However I want to move that down into the larger woods area as there is a perfect section to the right which seems to get a lot of light. Then the main garden can be a nice long grass area for Tom to play in. And maybe some decking and a summer house at the end with a BBQ.

The woodland is also at the moment fairly wild with bluebells coming up (as seen in the photos), but we want to turn it into more of a formal garden with grass and paths. That will take some time but will be an enjoyable on going project.

My dad has also said he will build Tom a tree house as there is a perfect Oak tree for this. Although I think at the moment the plans the 2 of them have come up with might be a bit too ambitious.

It also had a lot of fruit trees and bushes. Plums, Pears, Apples, Currants, Blackberries, Gooseberry's etc.. which is great as we really enjoy growing fruit.

Anyway, loads of possibilities and plans. First though the actual house needs the work. I want to repaint the outside as it's a pink colour at the moment from a brick render they had applies some years ago. I'm going to repaint it a light cream or white. The fireplaces in both the lounge and dinning room are currently closed off and we want to restore those to working condition so will source some period fireplace surrounds from reclamation yards. We also want to take up all the old carpets downstairs and expose the floorboards. Possibly sand and stain them. And the Kitchen and Bathroom will be ripped out as soon as we move in and replaced. Plus the rest of the house needs redecorating as it hasn't been updated in a very long time. nearly every wall is papered so some might need to be replastered/skimmed. And finally the electrics will need some work as there are not many sockets in some rooms (especially my new games/study room).

[Tiago]

Man, that garden is bigger then my house and the street together.
Tom will have a lot of space to play. Birthday parties will be so cool with that space.
I went looking in google maps, and is it only like 10km from you previous home correct?
You should be quite near the sea.

[Harrison]

Yes that's right. About 5 miles, whatever that is in KM. And just over 1 mile 1.6KM from the sea. And they have lots of parks and playgrounds, plus a pier and small amusement arcade. Bognor Regis is a proper seaside holiday location. It also has Butlins there too. The house isn't quite in main Bognor, just north of it in North Berstead.

If you wanted to find the actual house on Googlemaps it is in Greencourt Drive. I will PM you an exact link.

[Tiago]

I love google Maps, i sent hours looking at places i never went, even places i would like to go.
I found the house, very easy as it is the only one with a red mail post in front of it... :-) a lot of houses are similar. without the post would be harder.
Funny, in maps, the gate more in the left side is different. It should be the gate that goes directly to back garden. They change it. witch on is the older version?

I guess your photos are recent, in google maps, you can see that stuff you put on walls for the plants to grown up. In you photos, plants are bigger and they are climbing the wals.

[Harrison]

I hadn't actually noticed the gate was different. We actually want to replace it with a solid one so people can't see down the sideway.

I think you are right that the Googlemaps images are quite old, as the tarmac on the drive looks quite new and as you see the plant trellis on the walls doesn't have plants on it.

The council also look like they are resurfacing the road this week too, so that will be good before we move in.

[DonAmiga]

House looks great would definitely like a big garden like that