Although most people move to another country to live and experience the local way of life, this does not mean to say that they will not want the property they eventually purchase to take on some semblance of their home back in good old Blighty. All of those white washed walls can work very well when you eventually settle in Italy Villas but after a long enough period of time, this can make a Brit feel a wee bit homesick. So, what can you do to make the property seem a little more reminiscent of the UK and have the best of both worlds?
Well now, for a start, you can concentrate on the external areas of the property. You can easily have this area looking like the perfect home back in the UK: by using plants and flowers that are equally indigenous to more northern climes and landscaping the garden into what you would expect to see back home.
There is nothing to say that you have to keep the internal walls as white washed as they are on the outside. I think that this is all very well for a holiday property, but I can see how the clinical lack of colour can drive us Brits mad after a while. Use other shades of paint in your decoration scheme and perhaps place plenty of pictures along the walls too.
Upstairs, you can really concentrate on the bedrooms: this will be an especially good idea for your kids, who may be feeling even more uprooted than you. Get rid of the white wash at the earliest opportunity and transform each room into something that would look very cosy back in the UK.
