My bargain of the week - DHE Woodcutters Cottage

Browsing Gumtree yesterday I spotted an add that simply said Dolls Emporium cottage and to be honest when I emailed the seller to ask did they knew which one it was I was fully expecting the reply to be that is was one of the younger range of houses so I was very surprised to get a reply saying it was a DHE Woodcutters Cottage they had bought about 19 years ago! As you know I was after a little house for my niece, whos coming on Sunday, to play with and after the disaster that was the last one one I thought it would be perfect. It also came with furniture although I had no idea what! There were no photos so there was an element of hoping for the best but expecting the worst lol and figured if it was a complete disaster at least it was a nice house and small enough I could renovate it.

Well I persuaded Bethany to take me to pick it up today which was a bid deal for her as it was a 3 hour round trip and would be the longest drive shes done since passing her test. We actually had a really lovely day just chatting as it was country roads all the way and the sun was shining. We stopped for some lunch as we were a bit early. Picked up the house no problem and wow what a bargain! I think as it was fairly old I was expecting the furniture to not really be any good and its all quite new and really good and the dolls are just lovely!! (OH has already named him Winston!)

 The house itself is in need of a little tlc some of the pretty gingerbread trim is broken and not sure how I will fix that and one window pane is broken. Other that that the outside maybe just needs a fresh coat of paint and some cleaning off of some old paint on the chimneys etc and the inside of the door needs painting and papering. I have some nice red roof tile paper that came with Fairbanks so might redo the roof with that. The inside itself is fine for now but will maybe have a bit of new carpet and some new wallpaper but will leave that til Lydies here so we can pick the stuff together.

I was also looking on Gumtree for a small kitchen table to keep my Fairbanks on as it was on an old gateleg one I found in the shed which wasn't very pretty lol! I got this last night for £10 including 4 chairs and it couldn't be a more perfect size! The chairs need recovered but will come in handy next week when all my family is here! I love Gumtree lol I find so many good bargains and great when they are all local!!