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First Time Buyers
This Should Be Your First Purchase for your New Home
*Blog updated 04/01/2024 to reflect changes to product range*
A new home is perhaps one of the most exciting and simultaneously daunting events to occur in your life, especially if it’s your first.
You’ll be racked with questions weeks before you get the keys, and I’m afraid to say you’ll probably have more when you finally move in.
However, there is something you can figure out quickly and easily, and you can begin preparing for it on the first viewing if you’re particularly prepared.
One of the first, and easiest, priorities to tackle should be window blinds. Now, I’m not just saying that because we sell blinds, although you should feel welcome by now to peruse our huge choice at your leisure, but because they provide privacy, comfort and the beginnings of a colour scheme.
When you next visit the property you’re moving into, take a tape measure along, a pencil and some paper. Measure the width and drop of each window, noting its location in the house as you go.
Once you’re back home you can start to plan your window blinds before you even begin to pack, helping to remove that sense of pensive waiting and turning it into genuine progress. Small steps and preperation ahead of the moving-in date allow you to at least have one task ticked off before you even move!
Having a blind in your window, even just for your bedroom, on the first night helps to provide a little reassurance and relaxation. You’ll be shattered, stressed and perhaps a little homesick, and having a blind allows you to shut out the world and catch up on some sleep.
We’ve all been there on the first night in a strange place, you wake at every sound, lights outside catch your eye – things that will eventually help to send you to sleep in the future will for now keep you awake.
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Sure, you can always throw a bedsheet up to cover the window, but combined with sleeping on a mattress on the floor, you’ll soon grow tired of that ‘squatter-chic’ look. A window blind signals to you and anyone visiting that you’ve got it all figured out. Relax and enjoy the process!
Blinds also provide privacy and security, which is particularly useful for any street-level windows in rooms where your worldly possessions are on display (until you find a home for them of course!). Blinds also come in handy at providing a bit of dignity if you can’t remember which box you packed your pants in!
For new homeowners, it can be a little difficult deciding on a colour scheme, but blinds are a useful way of approaching this. By installing a blind first, you are able to see the room for what it is without trying to pair it with a rug or the cushions on your sofa, which can back you into a bit of a colour-scheme corner.
What's more, our blinds are packed with great features that make them specifically suited to the various rooms and environments around your home, from bathroom blinds, kitchen blinds, blinds and even conservatory blinds!
For example if you have a dark wood floor, take a look at our wooden venetian blinds. Putting up a blind gets the ball rolling and begins to make your home look coordinated, ready for the style you’ll eventually be able to decorate towards – even if you are living out of boxes still!
You may have got lucky and the previous owners left their existing window coverings behind when they moved because what on Earth is the point of taking a made-to-measure blind with you to a new home?! However, that doesn’t mean you have to follow their style and décor. Be free, make your own tracks.
Installing blinds before anything else goes into a room has two distinct benefits: firstly, you have plenty of access to the window (which you may not have if you fill the room with furniture), and if you get a bit over-zealous with the drill and create a bit of masonry dust, nothing is ruined and no hard work is required to tidy it up.
Taking this idea further, consider getting as much DIY done as possible before your furniture arrives – it’s a lot easier to work in an empty space. Focus on those key maintenance jobs before personalising the place; don’t literally wallpaper over the cracks.
My final piece of advice for new homeowners is this – take your time. Don’t do too much all at once or you’ll deplete your budget and spend all your time working and not enjoying your home. Plan ahead, prioritise and listen to advice; you can begin by browsing our huge collection of window blinds here.