{Interior décor on a budget} Ever since we made a decision to pay off our mort…

{Interior décor on a budget} Ever since we made a decision to pay off our mortgage off quicker than normal we have had a moratorium on buying anything for our home. The only thing we purchased was a pair of sofas about six years ago because our elderly lounge suite was literally falling apart. We saved and bought the best we could afford and they still look as good today despite being used every day by the four of us (two people and two cats). Then when we decided to move from the city to the provincial area where I grew up some five or six hours drive away we again decided to buy nothing for the house until after we moved. That was an easy decision because its silly to buy furniture when you dont know what your new house will be like. Now that we are here in our forever home it is exciting to start putting together a plan of what we want and how we are going to decorate. We are very lucky in that our new house has been immaculately maintained and is painted beautifully in simple creamy-white shade throughout so its a great blank canvas. Because our new home has two living areas one main living/dining room and a smaller sitting room off the kitchen we didnt have enough furniture to fill both rooms. Our current sofas look fantastic in the large living room but we need sofas for the sitting room too. We've had a good look at most of the furniture stores in the area where we now live plus we checked out our Auckland options when we were back in the city earlier this month. We got an idea of what constitutes a reasonable price these days and also looked at what style and fabric we wanted. We want to buy quality but not pay through the nose. We definitely do not want cheap. One sofa I sat on that looked very nice (but had a suspiciously low price) felt so lightweight and junky. CONTINUED IN COMMENTS BELOW: Jessica modelling