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New house – new furniture? <\/strong><\/p>\n

My husband and I bought a little old Victorian house last year right after we moved to England. Super cute, but definitely in need of some renovation projects. But such a big job is well worth it. Home ownership is an investment and everything we put into it is ours to enjoy for a long time to come!<\/p>\n

At the same time, we’re trying to approach the whole thing as sustainably as possible. It’s our first renovation project and I already have to say: renovating is pretty unsustainable! We have to tear down a lot of things that were messed up before. We had to remove the wooden floor in the kitchen and bathroom completely, unfortunately, because it was simply not maintained well enough and rotten in a few spots. The bathroom was renovated quite strangely about 10 years ago and now we are putting in a new one that will hopefully last forever. All this creates quite a lot of waste and unfortunately, due to Corona, we couldn’t always be on site or sorting out or looking over the project regularly to maybe save some waste here and there and recycle more.<\/p>\n

But slowly we are learning more and more about sustainable renovation and decorating. For example, we bought sustainable wall paint, we were able to get hold of a second hand kitchen that we will install soon and when it comes to furniture and decoration we rely 90% on second hand.<\/p>\n

The downside of new furniture:<\/strong><\/p>\n