Bella Vista - The House of Fun

So this is the new home (in a house called Bella Vista, even though there's not even a sea view! Why the name?!) ready and cleaned up after painting, wallpapering and decorating.

The exciting beginning

In new year's eve we got keys to the new apartment and we were of course full of excitement what the place looks like without furniture so we went there right away. To our new home :) Here are some pictures from the first days, when we are beginning the redecoration:

The previous owner left the pendant in the kitchen so that we'd see something there. This time a year the day is light about 6 hours, and all those hours are of course spent at the office... So basically we had only weekends to do the painting that requires daylight. And by the way, I'll always remember this winter as the warmest winter of my life. In January it's green outside and we keep the door open! And still hang around in shorts inside the house.

Here's the ugly red wall in the living room.

And ugly red wall in the bedroom.

View from the ugly red bedroom wall to the hall and kitchen.

A freshly blackboard painted wall. This lamp we just bought and installed ourselves with sweat and tears :)

Weird cream and grey coloured walls in the living room.

Bathroom pictures will be in some other blog post later when it gets ready. But otherwise, these pictures give a peak of the amount of work in front of us (luckilly already almost behind us)!

Our new home - Before...

These are the pictures in the sales ad of our new apartment in Herttoniemenranta, Helsinki. First I didn't want to go and see this place because there's no sauna there, but then on the other hand, the price was excellent and after seeing it, we fell in love and made an offer the next day. It was accepted 30 minutes later :)