DH have recently bought our first home. It’s a newish build - we are the second owners - and there’s lots to love with the layout and location, but the first owners did a really rubbish job with diy and maintaining bits of it and they took with them many fixtures so there’s a lot that needs replacing.
I should be relishing making it my own but I’m really not. There are some very modern touches in the house that I don’t like but we need to start saving money again and can’t remodel extensively. There’s a lot of griege. We have two kids, one is a baby that hates cars, so DH is going out to B&Q, Dunelm, B&M on his own and looking and choosing stuff and sending photos back to me and I feel very uninspired. I don’t have a vision for what I want especially from photos on WhatsApp. I guess I like country home aesthetics but we don’t really have the budget for it, and it doesn’t fit with what is currently in place. So we’re defaulting to the plainest and cheapest options. DH just asked me which bathroom shelf to get and gave me the option of white wood cupboard country home type or mirror with glass shelf as the only two options. The bathroom is very modern looking so the latter would look better but I hate it.
I’m just feeling stressed about it all, on top of look after the kids. I’d rather wait and enjoy living in the space for a bit and I keep deferring making decisions and DH is a bit fed up and just wants a mirror in the bathroom. Whereas I tend to spend time weighing up options, but I’m feeling too overwhelmed with the number of things that needs doing so I’m not thinking about it it at all. Our family gave us a cash gift to help buy bits for the home so we should use it, but we’re so used to getting the cheapest options off Argos etc so I don’t know where to start with looking for slightly nicer things. I’d quite like to go to IKEA tbh but the baby can’t do the journey yet.
Any advice please? I do realise how fortunate we are.