Top Essentials for Your New Home

Moving home can be stressful time, especially if you’re already snowed under with work and family commitments. It can be an awesome excuse to be out with the old and in with the new though, using the opportunity to get rid of any furniture that has seen better days and investing in new, high quality pieces that will help to make your new house a home.

Whether you’re making a new home for yourselves following your wedding day, or you’re upgrading your home because your family is expanding, packing up your life and heading for pastures new is something that we all do at some point or another. It’s an expensive business too, with much of your cash whittled away on fees and solicitors. With what you have left following the contract exchange, consider some new essentials for your new home, to make it feel truly special.

Lounge
While a living room will inevitably look ‘lived in’ in no time, there aren’t that many absolute essentials that you need to consider straight away. Somewhere for your other half to put their plasma TV and somewhere you can both sit to admire it are what many people think of as important. You can buy quality sofas online nowadays too, meaning you can choose what style you would like to see in your home, at the click of a button. Sofas and Stuff has a plethora of sofa options available that are bound to suit your personal taste.

Kitchen
If you’re lucky, this will already be set out for you. Sometimes, you may find white goods included (or integrated, even) or you may have your own to take with you. If it’s a kitchen/diner in your new pad, a dining table and chairs would be a nice touch – somewhere to sit as a family to enjoy an evening meal (or somewhere to bung the laundry after you’ve dried it!).

Bedrooms
This all depends on how much, and what kind of, stuff you have, but a comfortable, sturdy bed, wardrobe and bedside cabinet are a good start. Depending on your budget, a dressing table or chest of drawers would also come in handy, particularly if you have lots of things to stow away.


Weigh up your options and see what existing furniture could do with replacing, and make the most of your move by breathing new life into your belongings.