I love living in my new house, it was my first major purchase with my boyfriend of two years. we had previously rented together because we needed to be sure that we could put up with each other when living together forever.

Anyway after moving in to my new house, we settled in well. The house was in desperate need of cleaning and doing up so that it was up to proper living standards, therefore we called my dad in because he is a builder and he knows what he is talking about.

However when my dad came round he jumped up and down in the hallway and said well the floor boards here need replacing because the whole floor was bouncing up and down. So we bought new floor joists and new floor boards but when my dad pulled the floor up he saw that there was a vast amount of water under the floorboards. If we would have had a more expensive survey carried out, we would have realised that the house was built on a pond – if we knew before i would have never bought the house.

I have lived in my current house for just over one year and I have loved it, however I didnt like it when my neighbour started to get rowdy and she used to have loud late night lovemaking sessions with many different men. She is what you would call a trollop.

Anyway, when I am due to buy my next house there are many things I am going to seriously consider before jumping in wiuth both feet first (like I did when I bought my first house). Here is a list of the factors I am going to contemplate:

• what are the neighbours like?
• How thick are the walls?
• Is it close to the local pub so we can go and have a drink in the evenings or on weekends?
• What is the heating bill like?
• How far away is it from the city centre?
• Has it got water under the floor boards – have a proper survey carried out.
• It must have three or more bedrooms
• It must have an en suite in my master bedroom

What will your next house have to have?

When you are buying a house there are many factors to consider before you take the plunge and make the biggest purchase of your life. When I bought my house I had specific criteria that the house had to meet before I was willing to hand over my money and take out a massive mortgage on it.

My criteria was;

• It had to be less than £100,000. That way we could easily afford the repayments and have enough cash to enjoy our lives and have fun rather than being tied down to a ball and chain mortgage which cripples us every month.
• It had to be within half an hours driving distance from my family (my sister has just had a baby so I want to stay close so that I can pop round on a regular basis to play with my nephew).
• It had to have a front and back garden
• It had to have at least two bedrooms
• It had to feel right!

I found my house and we are living here now in the process of doing it up and it wasn’t until a later date that my next door neighbour informed me that the previous owner died in the back bedroom 2 years ago – wooo spooky!

The best question to ask once you have bought your new house is; what are the best rooms to do up in your house in order to get the best return on investment from your house purchase?

In my humble opinion i believe the main rooms to decorate and carry out DIY in your house are the kitchen and the bathroom.

The kitchen is the main meeting point in any house. When ever we have a party the main room that people stand and gather in is the kitchen. As the song says “that’s why you’ll always find him in the kitchen at parties!”