House building - an eternal construction site?

Move-in was at the beginning of 2019, a lot went wrong, unfortunately I couldn’t order all the furniture before moving in and the curtains like my friends did…

In between, I also had the mentioned house burnout and no one was really motivated anymore to handle the last little things.

So it happened that I only managed to clear out the last room this year. It still had a lot of construction stuff in it.

Only now am I slowly starting to feel at home, before it was a construction site. It didn’t look like a construction site but it felt like one because I always had in the back of my mind everything that still needed to be done.

I also greatly underestimated how much one feels committed to such a house. I can’t remember cleaning windows in the last rental apartment. The grout of the bathroom tiles didn’t matter to me at all.
I once heard from Sarah Lombardi that she was apparently desperate about her new house back then… I feel similar.

You want to have it finished, you want it clean, you want it perfect. Well, me (-:

I really have to come down from that and now first need a break from the house.

I once heard from Sarah Lombardi that she was apparently also desperate about her new house back then .. I feel the same way.

Who is Sarah Lombardi?

Congratulations on your now no longer new dwelling and I wish you many wonderful hours. We are waiting for the building permit (September) and then we hope it will start.

Good day,

we are moving in 3.5 years after purchase in November. So far, we have already bought everything for each room and are storing it in our garages or have ordered the goods with a scheduled delivery for the move-in. Definitely, some things will still be needed 2-3 months after moving in, but I am not a fan of putting things off for 2-3 years, although everyone should act according to their own financial possibilities. Because the waiting time for the demolition/building permit has been extended, more money could be saved, which now benefits us.

Small things will always come up for the builder, but one should at least no longer speak of a "construction site".

I would not be able to order whole pieces of furniture in advance at all. I want to first find out how everything looks, what the lighting conditions really are, and how a room feels. Apart from the washbasin in the bathroom, I haven’t bought any extra furniture in advance. Not even a kitchen. To my own surprise, it ended up being a black one instead of white. I still think it’s great that it turned out that way.

The apartment was newly occupied, so all the painting work and floors still had to be installed, kitchen etc. But since we hardly owned anything and brought everything newly purchased directly into the new apartment, we ended up moving into a furnished, fully renovated apartment. Unpack a few boxes and that was it.

In the house, it will probably be the exact opposite extreme. Of course, you want everything to be perfectly finished when you move in, but that's unrealistic.
And on the other hand, I would like to move in right now immediately (we are currently getting the screed, so it is still a shell!). But if you have been wanting and planning to build a house for years, then the impatience when it finally stands there is quite big :rolleyes:

I am curious in what condition we will really move in at the end. And it already feels like ours now. But for example, we also completely drew the floor plan ourselves, every corner of this house is "from us", we live nearby and just already spend a lot of time there.
I already expect the feeling of home when no one else has a key to the house except us (oh how I am waiting for that)!!

It is a matter of attitude. One wants to be finished. The other wants to continue working on the property. When I think of my garden, one is probably never finished.