Knuts about home

My partner and I have just moved into our new home and we love, love, love it.
We have moved to Knutsford in Cheshire and it is just so completely far removed from our old flat in Tooting.
We have swapped our 1 bedroom ground floor flat, for a 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom house in a lovely Close. We love love love it!

The town is beautiful and everyone so friendly that we are really feeling settled and homely already.
We have a pub round the corner, The Builders' Arms, where everyone says hello when you walk in. People take their dogs there and there is a garden in the back with a climbing frame.





Just across the road from us, you have a side entrance to Tatton Park, a beautiful park with deer, rabbits, free-roaming herds of sheep, all sorts.






We go for runs in the morning, covering a tiny portion of the park in proportion, but actually running 4 miles around the mere. With rabbits and squirrels and sheep dodging out of our way, and the silhouettes of antlers amongst the bracken, it is a far-cry from our morning jogs around the block and the local cemetry in Tooting.





Walking the other direction, within 5 minutes you are just walking through meadows of long long grass, with cows in fields and patches of woodland, and little brooks and lakes. It is just fantastic.



We love it more than we ever thought we would and so far we haven't missed London at all, despite secretly thinking that we would have a few withdrawal symptoms.

There are loads of lovely bars and restaurants about and quaint little boutiques.

We go to jive lessons on a Wednesday! Something we'd never have done in London!

The house is fatastic. It's a new-build about 5 years old. We ideally were looking for a Victorian / Georgian town house but that's til we actually visited Knutsford. The houses are either really really old or they are post-war boxes. The post-war boxes had no features and no character at all.
The old houses were full of character, but the ones that we could actually afford required way too much work and would end up costing way more money than we could ever afford. Also, they were tiny.

After viewing 50 houses (and that is no exaggeration) over 2 weekends of commuting from London, we finally saw this new-build, even after having specified to all of the estate agents 'No new-builds!'
But what the heck, we saw it anyway.

Anyway, I am sure it is the exception, but this new-build oozes charm and character and what's more, it is huge! It is by far, the biggest house we saw, has a lovely garden, and like I said before, has 3 bathrooms. And, it was cheaper than the flat we were selling!

Now that we have moved here, we still look at houses (especially the ones we viewed that are still on the market) and know we just made such a fantastic choice.

Our quality of life is so great and we have never been happier people. Every day is wonderful!

This used to be the kind of place we would visit to get out of London for a weekend, and we would browse the little shops and buy little home-made jars of chutney as a token of our break, and now we live here!!!