My own student house
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Original Date posted: Sat, 09 October 2004 04:51:40
Post: I have a new house. I live in a student house with my six other student friends. The boy-girl ratio is 5:2 in their favour. We’re paying £220 a month for a large approximately 1850’s house. It has seven bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen a large bathroom, a separate shower and a separate toilet and high ceilings. There’s also a basement but it needs work done to it. My adorably beautiful and wonderful girlfriend, who will undoubtedly be reading this, has blessed me with the largest room in the house. A 14x15 ft ex-lounge, pictures doth follow.
We first looked at the house in January – it was the last of the houses we looked at and the day had been exhausting. We’d been to a run down old miner’s house in Coventry that half of our group wanted us to get, while being pressured by the landlord. We’d been to two flats on the parade in Leamington Spa, each above a pub or restaurant. The first was very nice despite its locale, yet it was expensive, split into three sections and lots of people were interested in it. The second was small, cramped, had a nice living room yet had NO CENTRAL HEATING. Seriously, wtf. So we passed on those two. On we went to the last house. To be frank, it was a dump – the people living there at the time were slobs, untidy. They’d been there for two years and the house was rotting. But underneath the mess there was actually a NICE house, it felt like a home, it looked like a home, it had room to breathe, it functioned and the rooms were of a decent size. The main problem was the lack of decent furnishing in the two backrooms, which were tiny – and one even had a double bed stuffed into it. We decided to take the house, much to the discomfort of one of my housemates. We picked rooms out of the hat.
Those mucky students have left now. In the contract we asked that we get a decent dining table, proper furnishings in the back rooms and a lot of cleaning. Over the summer the landlord repainted some rooms, re-carpeted the stairs and hallways and fitted rooms with tall wardrobes and nice desks. We also had our kitchen redone to provide us with a new gas oven, a new worktop, new cupboards and various other little perks. Now the house is near perfect (despite a weekend of cleaning in September). We got the gas sorted, the electricity sorted, the phone and internet sorted, the rent sorted, the TV license sorted and now we just have to pay bills. We have yet to get the Xbox Live sorted, but that story will be coming in an all new journal instalment.
I am now settled in but I still need things to fill up my room. It seems sparse. I have bought a 6ft indoor tree plant that I enjoyed carrying home on the bus, but it did cost only £20. I have also bought a lamp from ikea and some other small things. But it is still lacking, my primary hope is to get a pool table – a six foot one with 48mm balls. There’s one at argos for £200 but the problem that arises is, “How do I move it from A to B?”
Photos:
This is it unfurnished (no posters, few decorative features) and lacking pool table!!!. The room is 14x15ft. My tv is nicely linked to the PS2, VCR, Aerial + Booster and PC + soon to be Xbox Live. All antennas on top of the wardrobe, including wireless. Surround sound also installed.
Other Rooms in the house
Post: I have a new house. I live in a student house with my six other student friends. The boy-girl ratio is 5:2 in their favour. We’re paying £220 a month for a large approximately 1850’s house. It has seven bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen a large bathroom, a separate shower and a separate toilet and high ceilings. There’s also a basement but it needs work done to it. My adorably beautiful and wonderful girlfriend, who will undoubtedly be reading this, has blessed me with the largest room in the house. A 14x15 ft ex-lounge, pictures doth follow.
We first looked at the house in January – it was the last of the houses we looked at and the day had been exhausting. We’d been to a run down old miner’s house in Coventry that half of our group wanted us to get, while being pressured by the landlord. We’d been to two flats on the parade in Leamington Spa, each above a pub or restaurant. The first was very nice despite its locale, yet it was expensive, split into three sections and lots of people were interested in it. The second was small, cramped, had a nice living room yet had NO CENTRAL HEATING. Seriously, wtf. So we passed on those two. On we went to the last house. To be frank, it was a dump – the people living there at the time were slobs, untidy. They’d been there for two years and the house was rotting. But underneath the mess there was actually a NICE house, it felt like a home, it looked like a home, it had room to breathe, it functioned and the rooms were of a decent size. The main problem was the lack of decent furnishing in the two backrooms, which were tiny – and one even had a double bed stuffed into it. We decided to take the house, much to the discomfort of one of my housemates. We picked rooms out of the hat.
Those mucky students have left now. In the contract we asked that we get a decent dining table, proper furnishings in the back rooms and a lot of cleaning. Over the summer the landlord repainted some rooms, re-carpeted the stairs and hallways and fitted rooms with tall wardrobes and nice desks. We also had our kitchen redone to provide us with a new gas oven, a new worktop, new cupboards and various other little perks. Now the house is near perfect (despite a weekend of cleaning in September). We got the gas sorted, the electricity sorted, the phone and internet sorted, the rent sorted, the TV license sorted and now we just have to pay bills. We have yet to get the Xbox Live sorted, but that story will be coming in an all new journal instalment.
I am now settled in but I still need things to fill up my room. It seems sparse. I have bought a 6ft indoor tree plant that I enjoyed carrying home on the bus, but it did cost only £20. I have also bought a lamp from ikea and some other small things. But it is still lacking, my primary hope is to get a pool table – a six foot one with 48mm balls. There’s one at argos for £200 but the problem that arises is, “How do I move it from A to B?”
Photos:
This is it unfurnished (no posters, few decorative features) and lacking pool table!!!. The room is 14x15ft. My tv is nicely linked to the PS2, VCR, Aerial + Booster and PC + soon to be Xbox Live. All antennas on top of the wardrobe, including wireless. Surround sound also installed.
Other Rooms in the house
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