Discover More About Reducing The Headaches Of Fitting Out Your New Holiday Property
Getting away from the headaches of fitting out your new holiday villa
This article is one of series written following our own recent experiences when selecting a holiday villa in Casares Del Sol, in Spain’s Costa Del Sol. The path to holiday villa purchase abroad has many routes and along our path we have picked up some knowledge.
Congratulations if you are buying a holiday apartment abroad! One of the next large outgoings is the furnishing of the holiday apartment. Certainly when we bought our holiday apartment we were contacted by interior designers at least 12 months before the completion date. Such villa furnishings companies will supply anything from a knife and fork to a bed.
The first thing you need to do is agree what you are going to use the holiday apartment for? Is it purely for your own use? Will you allow family and friends to use it? Will you rent it out? How often will the apartment be occupied? When you have decided upon the answers you are ready to go on to the next questions. What money do you have available to kit out the property? Are you going to design the interior yourself or ask someone to do it for you?
An interior design company will offer to install all you need, via villa furniture packs. For a 2 bedroom apartment a pack will range from 6,000 Euros to whatever sum you want to spend. In our opinion keep away from the lower priced packages, the items are too cheap and will almost certainly not last long.
Whilst a company will take the pressure off you, are you happy for someone to design the interior on your behalf? From our perspective we were only too glad to agree to such an offer. The pack was put in in one day. However we found a few things which we were not anticipating:
1. The bedding was cheaper than we would have preferred, whilst it looks ideal it will not survive long.
2. We could have bought the kitchen items ourselves at the local large supermarket, they stock the same, and we in all likelihood paid 60% extra for them.
3. The TV bought was a normal style not a flat screen, you would have to pay more for one, but we did not ask!
However on the plus side buying via such a company we did not:
1. Have to visit shops,
2. Be there to accept deliveries
3. Install curtain poles and other such items up
Overall it was great just opening the front door after installation and seeing it all clean, new and perfectly laid out. The company even sent us pictures once the job was completed. Would we do the same again? With the experience gained now we would prefer to design our own interior and do the whole process ourselves. The million dollar question is do you have the time to do so? You can only answer that question yourself
Enjoy your property!
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