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{Guest Post} Your Bathroom Renovation Checklist

By ⋅ March 5, 2013 ⋅ One comment

Renovating a bathroom requires rigorous organisation and research. With literally thousands of products from which to choose, there can be so many variables to consider that it can seem like an enormous undertaking. However, with this handy checklist, you can tick off all the key areas as you go, and create your perfect bathroom without [...]

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Our DIY vegetable garden

By ⋅ January 29, 2013 ⋅ One comment

I guess most gardens are probably classified as DIY, aren’t they?! Well, I decided to build a small 1.2m sq in May of last year, to plant vegetables and fruits in time for the current summer. After a few false starts (buying treated wood at first, then correcting the choice with hard wood pails) I [...]

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{De-cluttering} Linen Cupboard

By ⋅ June 25, 2012 ⋅ 3 comments

Wow, 3 weeks until I go back to work. Um. Where did the last 9 months go?? I had a massive list of things I really wanted to do around the house and garden while I was off, and I’m sad to say I got hardly any of it done at all! Today though, was [...]

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My Vegetable Garden – Part 1

By ⋅ April 8, 2012 ⋅ 2 comments

Today I *finally* got the structure started for our Vege Garden! I feel a big sense of achievement here, because the area has been sitting there getting more jungley by the day, for about 2 years now… And today I managed to weed it, move a wood sleeper to create the fourth wall base, put [...]

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Open Garden & Inspiration

By ⋅ April 2, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Mum and I visited a lovely open garden inCanberra on the weekend. It was owned by an older retired couple, who have lived there for 43 years! So they have about 40 years on me and my garden, but I was still so envious. The style of their garden was not totally on par with [...]

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Living Room Design Reveal {before & after}

By ⋅ March 27, 2012 ⋅ 3 comments

My living room was finally tidy enough to take pictures of for the reveal! We got rid of our 4 seater chaise lounge and 2 seater blue couch, and replaced them with a beautiful chocolate brown leather 3 seater lounge. We painted the walls white (from cream) and got new white double roller blinds (from [...]

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Skinny Front Garden

By ⋅ January 5, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

In December it was quite cool and rainy here in Canberra, so I took the opportunity to be outside and work in the garden, tidying up the front yard and creating the Skinny Front Garden bed to “fence off” the front corner of our block. The area I wanted to use for the garden is [...]

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January To-Do List

By ⋅ January 3, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

I have 6 months before I go back to work. I want to get a LOT of stuff done around the house before that happens, so I need to get a wriggle on. Here’s my list that I want to get done this month! Paint Bathroom cornice and ceiling (and post final bathroom reveal) Buy [...]

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Our Christmas Tree! 2011

By ⋅ December 11, 2011 ⋅ One comment

This year I cut down my own tree! And it’s AMAZING, even if I say so myself =) I went to Christmas Tree Keng, a property out past the Tulip Farm on the Highway to Sydney that grow radiata pines specifically for Christmas! They hand prune their trees to be the perfect shape, and you [...]

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{BATHROOM RENOVATION} Update with progress photos!

By ⋅ October 7, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

So we have now been without a working shower for around 17 days (who’s counting?), and it will be another 7-10 days until the shower screen goes in. Luckily, with besties and in-laws and parentals living so close, we are not that stinky, and have been bathing regularly =P As of today though, the silicon [...]

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