First Home Essentials Checklist

Things to Buy for a New House

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What to Buy for a New House

Moving house for the first time is exciting and stressful in equal measure. As a first time buyer, ensuring you have all the new house essentials is an important part of helping the process run as smoothly as possible.

However, it can be extremely difficult to keep on top of all the things you need for a new house. In fact, the list of first home essentials is almost endless – you have to remember everything from kitchen utensils, bathroom supplies and furniture to electricals, cleaning products and soft furnishings. So, there is a lot of room for forgetting things.

That’s why it’s a good idea to create a new house shopping list, comprising all the new home must-haves. But, no need to worry, we have done all the hard work for you and put together a comprehensive first home essentials checklist. Go ahead and start ticking off all the things you need for a new house.

New Kitchen Essentials

We’re starting off our first home essentials checklist with all the things you will need for your new kitchen. The kitchen is likely to be the room that you will need the most things for in your new house so make sure you don’t forget anything important.

The following are what we would consider essential for your new kitchen:

Kitchen Appliances

Some of the obvious first home essentials include kitchen appliances. As soon as you move into your new home, you are likely to need these to both store and make your food.

Fridge/freezer
Microwave
Kettle
Toaster
Blender

Eating Essentials

Also on the long list of things to buy for a new house are a wide range of eating essentials. Moving into your new home will be hungry work, and there would be nothing worse than realising you’d forgotten to buy anything to eat with.

Cutlery
Crockery
Glasses
Mugs

Cooking Essentials

Before you start eating, however, you will need some things to cook your food with. Below are some of the new house essentials you will need to cook your first meals in your new home.

Knives set
Chopping board
Tin opener
Baking tray
Peeler
Pots and pans
Utensils
Salt and pepper pots
Weighing scales
Measuring jug
Mixing bowl
Oven gloves
Colander

Bathroom Essentials

Bathrooms tend to be already kitted out with some of the essentials, including a toilet, sink and a shower or bath. However, there are some other bathroom essentials that you will need to have on your new house shopping list.

Hand towel
Towel
Bath mat
Toilet roll
Toilet roll holder
Soap
Toilet brush
Toothpaste
Bin

Living Room Essentials

The number of things you will need to buy for your new living room will largely depend on how much time you plan on spending there. For those who love to relax in front of the TV on an evening, you may want to spend a little more to make this room super cosy and comfortable.

Nevertheless, we have just included the absolute essentials on this list of new home must haves:

Coffee table
Sofa
TV
TV stand
Wi-Fi
Lamp
Cushions
Rug
Throws or blankets

Bedroom Essentials

Now, onto the bedroom section of our first home essentials checklist. Apart from the obvious things, like your bed, there are a few other new house essentials that you will need for your bedroom. These include:

Bedding
Duvet
Pillows
Bedside table
Bedside lamp
Wardrobe
Clothes hangers
Chest of drawers
Mirror
Curtains/blinds

Home Office Essentials

If you’re lucky enough to have a home office in your first house, you will need to fill it with all the stationary needed for working. Office essentials are becoming increasingly important when it comes to things to buy for a new house given that more and more people are starting to work from home.

Desk
Computer
Office chair
Mouse
Paper organiser
Shredder
Pens
Pencils
Highlighters
Paperclips
Printer
Stapler
Scissors
Post-it notes
Telephone

Cleaning Products

Even if your first home is a new build, it is likely to be a bit dusty once all your boxes have been moved in. Therefore, I’m sure you will be desperate to give it a good clean when you’ve finished unpacking.

Here are all the essential cleaning products you will need for your new house:

Cloths, sponges and scrubbers
Feather duster
Bucket and mop
washing-up liquid
Dustpan and brush
Air spray
Surface cleaner
Disinfectant
Bleach
Vacuum cleaner
Washing powder

Other Things to Buy for a New House

In addition to all the room-specific first home essentials, there are some other random things you need for a new house.

Sellotape
Smoke alarm
Torch
Tool box
Ladder
Plug extension leads

And don’t forget to get all your utilities sorted before moving into your new home. Broadband, energy and water are all first home essentials.

There you have it! The complete first home essentials checklist, including all of the things you will need for your new house. We have covered every room to ensure you don’t forget any new home must haves.

Hopefully, this ‘things to buy for a new house checklist’ will help you stay organised and on-track for moving in day. Make sure you pack all your new house essentials into sturdy boxes with labels to make unpacking at the other end that bit easier.

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