How To Make Your New Build Home Feel Like Home

Moving into a new home is an experience like no other: equally exciting and unnerving, with a healthy dollop of irreplicable stress thrown in for good measure. From those early consultations with mortgage advice brokers to the last day before exchange, and with a lifetime to pack up into boxes in-between, there is no let-up in a process that many call the most stressful of their adult lives.

Even after all the anxiety of jumping through bureaucratic hoops and subjugating yourself to the third financial degree, with your new house keys in your hand and your whole life ahead of you, you still have a shedload of boxes to unfold, a life to rebuild, and no idea where to start. Safe to say this can all feel a little overwhelming – but to help put your mind at ease, let the following tips guide you on making your new home feel like it should: a home.

Unpack Essentials

This may come as no surprise to you, but your first priority when unpacking should be your essentials – crockery, cutlery, cooking implements, toiletries and any necessary personal effects (including chargers and identification). This is something you can pre-empt with your packing, by treating your move as if you are going on a camping holiday. 

In short, this means you should pack a sports bag with everything you would need at a festival, and use that as your basis for living while you sort out your personal effects. Not only does this make it easier to unpack the rest of your belongings without confusion, but it also gives you the opportunity to settle in before you’re settled in; after all, if you can’t make a cup of tea, are you even home?

Display Personal Items

Homes are defined by the personal elements that make them so. A home without personality is simply a house. This is to say that it’s your own personal effects that define your home, and this point is no better expressed than with new-build homes. These homes are designed with a purposeful benignity and are fully adaptable to the personal tastes of their new owner. So what’s your taste?

Start with your collectables and displayables, things that naturally reflect your personal tastes while holding irreplaceable sentimental value. Personal photos, holiday souvenirs and other such mementoes are a great initial way to add a personal touch to your home. Really, though, anything you choose is going to say something about your character, from furniture to wallpaper.

Invite Friends And Family Over

There are so many different ways to approach the personalisation of a home, from personal elements on the mantelpiece to a glut of waist-level ambient lighting solutions. Really, though, your home is a place you control and choose for. And if you choose for family to visit, to make themselves comfortable, to make one another laugh – well, you’ve chosen a home for them to do it in.