I bought a bungalow at 20 – it cost £215k and has three bedrooms… but needs a total refurb
A WOMAN has opened up about buying her first home aged 20 alongside her boyfriend.
Natalie Attridge and her partner Ryan, who is 22, are excited to be embarking on a new adventure together after taking the three-bedroom property off the market for £215k.
But Natalie said the pair are in for a tough job as they now need to renovate it after “falling in love with the potential”.
The excited buyer, who shared her first home story on her TikTok profile at @natalieattridge, explained she and Ryan loved the bungalow as soon as they viewed it.
Natalie, from Norfolk, then said she went on “constant walks” past the property to check it out and imagine her life there.
And, after they got their first mortgage offer, the couple went out to celebrate over a plush dinner and drinks, knowing that they could put in an offer on their now dream pad.
Natalie and Ryan then documented every step, including “seeing the sold sign for the first time”, explaining how it then “felt very real.”
Several shopping trips later to get some bits they needed, Natalie and Ryan completed in April of this year – but now the real fun begins.
Now that they’ve got the keys to the three-bed place, they’ve begun putting their own personal touches to it.
And that means beginning their “renovation journey”, as a video of Ryan chipping away at plaster in one of the rooms played in the background.
Other DIY jobs include changing the light fittings, choosing out the shade of paint that they want for each space, and putting in their own furniture.
But despite the big task ahead of them, Natalie says she’s on cloud nine after reaching the life milestone as she wrote: “[It] feels like I’m living a dream.”
In a further video, she showed the house two weeks later in what she described as “VERY much a work in progress.”
While the pair had made some progress, she admitted they still had a long way to go and hadn’t officially moved in yet.
She said: “Every day of the renovation is a step closer to the end.”
Two months on and they’ve since made significant progress, having painted the walls, made a start on the flooring.
But Natalie admitted that they didn’t know what they “were getting themselves in for.”
She added: “Renovating your first home is a full-time job, second to the full-time jobs we both already have.
“It is without doubt the hardest but most rewarding thing we have ever done and we are enjoying every moment of documenting the journey so we can look back on how far we’ve come in two months.”
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