Cold feet / first time buyer wobbles.

[Sparkles13]

Hello,

My dh and I (and our 3 dc) are buying our first home. It's been a lengthy process but we should be completing soon.

Has anyone else had cold feet or huge anxiety wobble prior to moving in or during the process and did it work out okay in the end ?

We didn't buy the house for love on first sight - the area, location, schools, crime rate all ticked the boxes.

We don't have a large budget and the house is "the worst house in the best area." It needs ALOT doing to it - new electrics, bathroom Is in bits, kitchen needs redoing, new boiler, garden in a state, all the walls are in woodchip type of texture etc on first viewing I had rose tinted glasses, second still happy go lucky but third and final (for fittings/ measuring ) I've had a huge wobble. I'm just feeling really anxious about the work needing to be done and it won't be an overnight job more like 5 years + to get it pulled round. Most of our friendship circle have bought new builds as their first home and now I'm questioning myself whether we've made the right choice and the enormity of what we're taking on has really hit home. Has it worked out in the end for everyone else?

I moved into a house like this , woodchip and all. Cheap fix is to paint it and with furniture , etc . it won't look too bad. Paint is your friend here , buy some if it is on sale .
You sound like you have made a good decision and all the important things like location for schools are a huge plus.

A good garden clearcut can do wonders .And is only your labour.

Main thing is that this property is yours and no one can take away the peace of mind that that will bring you

On the whole I did my renovation on a budget side of things. But we also thought about getting one thing each in our new house that we really want/enjoy. It's been LED lights for my daughter, wall-mounted monitor for my son and a monkey lamp for me. All relatively cheap in the scheme of a renovation project but it's been something we were looking forward to! I also watched Sarah Beeny's series about renovation and got some awesome ideas like mural wallpaper from there.

@Sparkels The first proper house Dh & I bought was utterly rubbish - no proper kitchen a sink and a plug and a concrete floor , they had taken all the light bulbs , all walls painted a mustard colour , they had taken all the door knobs & given all their dogs a bath in the ( avacado ) bathroom. But after a wee while we were OK in that house & I loved it. Sometimes living in a rubbish house is good because once you have cleansed it and done the necessary job ( so eg electrics etc you can take time to know what you want. I am not sure my Ds knew what carpet was for a good 2 years. But we made it our own over time.

I wish you well Basilisk x

As a second time seller I would say all of those things are surmountable with time and money. If you worry a lot about having too little of either then yes it's worth reconsidering. That said (and currently living in a technically 100% finished house and hoping to move to a project house) I'm much less worried than I was as a first time buyer because I now know in any house you're never truly 'finished' e.g. DC's blind fell down out of the blue and needed redrilling. Sealant around sink needs redoing. There will always be something!