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09.10.2018

3 tips for moving in together

Moving into your first home with your beloved partner is one of the most beautiful and interesting moments in life. In contrast to a single apartment, however, all sorts of problems can also disturb the new community. Whether you really fit together is only shown by being together all the time. Relationships often have to go through several endurance tests within the first few months. Experience has shown that people often clash when looking for an apartment. In the following 3 tips, we will show you what options there are to cope with the start and life together in the new apartment without unnecessary stress.

Tip 1: find a suitable apartment

If you are sure about moving in together, you can start looking for an apartment together. Decisive criterion for finding the perfect apartment is that they can meet the most important requirements for a shared apartment for both of you, such as location, costs and the size of the apartment. When it comes to the costs, you should make sure that you do not add up the two previous rents and thus define your budget, but that you deduct at least 20% from the sum of the two previous rents. Because you also get less now – one apartment has in any case less “value” than 2 apartments.

Tip 2: Make compromises

Also, be prepared to make compromises sometimes, otherwise arguments could shake the relationship before the shared apartment is even furnished. For example, allow him to install his beloved game console in the living room if you can spread out your art supplies in the guest room. We all know that you have to make compromises in a relationship, but sometimes you realize it too late when it comes to the apartment – not lastly because you don’t think about the fact that the shared apartment is also “part of the relationship”.

Tip 3: Store duplicate furnishings and furniture

It is often the case that both already have a complete household item and want to bring it with them to the new shared apartment. This raises the question of what is needed by the respective institutions and what is superfluous.

There are practical reasons, which are valuable when setting up together, but are by no means everything. There is furniture and other furnishings that can have an emotional value for one or the other. Or there are different views on the usefulness of a particular piece of furniture. For example, the bookshelf will be an important, useful item for a book rat. However, anyone who read their last book 5 years ago will not appreciate the bookshelf much and will rather

Walk the path together

dismiss it as “wasted space”. In order to avoid differences, it is also important to show mutual tolerance and to make compromises.

If one or the other item does not find a place in the new apartment, this does not necessarily mean that you have to dispose of it. There may be pieces of furniture and other fixtures that you would like to keep for a variety of reasons. Whatever the reason you don’t want to dispose of your belongings, there are more ways than ever to store your belongings these days. Parents or friends and acquaintances are often asked for storage space. Or rent one nearby room, a barn or something similar.

So-called self-storage warehouses offer a modern alternative. These are temporary storage providers where you can keep your belongings neat and tidy. With these self-storage providers, you can rent a personal storage room with your own lock at very short notice, to which only you have access. The entire building in which the storage room is located is usually alarmed and video-monitored.

Store your belongings safely

Conclusion: the first shared apartment is an adventure and at the same time a test of endurance for the mostly young relationship. Make compromises when it comes to your own furniture. And take advantage of the modern possibilities offered by self-storage providers in Switzerland today.

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