So it begins, new chapter in our life!!!

Quite some time ago Marcus and I started thinking about buying a home. We wanted to have more space, a garden for Misia to run and maybe little veggy garden for us. We were getting sick of living in the city in the apartment. 
We started looking around to check out what areas of Melbourne we like. Where would we like to live and own a property. We were changing our mind's every weekend. We had mixed feeling, we were excited about the idea of having our own place  as well as being depressed about how expensive Melbourne is and how upsetting that we can not afford to live where we want. 
My dream of living next to the beach turned out to be unreachable and I had to accept it.  We were looking everywhere in Melbourne. We were considering all options from existing suborbs to newly establishing one. We were also thinking about buying a little terrace house as close to the city centre as possible. 
The more we were looking around the more we were convinced that none of these options are really what we want. 
We wanted a nice, modern, well built house in a nice area. We didn’t want to be surrounded by buildings anymore, we wanted to have a little bit of wildlife around us. Simply we wanted a pleasant place to come back to after a  busy day at work. 
My dream was always to have fireplace, garden and maybe a swimming pool. Having a swimming pool was always more a dream rather than anything else, I never thought that I would actually have a house with a swimming pool. 
But back to my story about the house … the more we were looking for a house in Melbourne and the surrounding suburbs the more we realised that all these places don't have what we are looking for. Eventually we started considering Sunbury. I have to admit the fact that we have Marcus’s family there was and always is big advantage, not to mention that we probably wouldn’t even know about Sunbury if not for them. Yes, it is far away but actually not as far as I thought at first. 
And so we started looking at houses in Sunbury. 
The first house which we saw in Sunbury was “the red house” as I keep calling it. The house has got red doors, so I called it "the red house". When we saw this house we both fall in love with it. It wasn’t perfect but pretty damn close to being perfect. However we weren’t ready to buy a house then, not to mention that it was the first house which we saw in Sunbury.  We thought to ourselves "Who is buying the first house which they have seen?" We kept looking at more and more houses and to our great disappointment we never saw anything even half as nice as "the red house".  In the mean time somebody put a offer in for “the red house”. No wonder it is a really nice place. We started considering building our own place. We even managed to find some land and we started contacting building companies just to find out that building a house is huge, expensive commitment, hassle and it will cost us much more that we could afford. One afternoon Marcus called me to say “you wont believe what happened, I will tell you everything at home, just wait”. He came home and said that people who put the offer in for “the red house” didn’t get it, their finance didn’t go though. I was so surprised but the same time I always had the feeling that “the red house” was not gone from us yet and here you go it was on the market again. We went to see the house again and after a few discussions with estate agent we decided to put in a offer. 
Everything happened so quick and we have so many different thoughts in our minds, from excitement to the fear. Buying a house and moving to the suburbs is a life changing decision, our life style will change dramatically, that is for sure however no matter how scary it is, it does feel right. 
We are still waiting to find out what our settlement date is. 
Everyday when I am coming back home from work I think to myself "I will deeply miss Docklands, our apartment and our life style".
I have these thoughts that maybe we rushed with the decision to buy a house, maybe we are not ready, maybe we should stay a few more years in Docklands. 
However on the other hand I think, stay longer in Docklands?! How much longer? And what for? We do miss having our own space, garden where we can sit in the nice warm weather. A place which we can do our in own way, if we want to paint a wall we don’t have to ask for permission. 
Changes are scary but good. 

This picture was taken in the winery in Sunbury. We went there for our Sunday explore to find out more about Sunbury by then we weren't convinced yet if we want to move to Sunbury. 

Picture of the brochure for our new home :) 

Random picture taken in Sunbury.

SOLD to us :) that's right TO US !!!