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Home Office Makeover {before & after}

By ⋅ January 16, 2011 ⋅ 7 comments

My main aims for my Home Office were to reduce the clutter and update the early 90′s colour scheme (the pink carpet continues to hurt my brain). Here is my pretty Office, almost finished: Considering the “before”, I’m pretty happy! A little list of still-to-do’s: Second coat of enamel on trims Paint door glossy white [...]

Sneak Peek #2 {home office}

By ⋅ January 16, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve been a bit quiet here over the past couple of days, besides watching the news a lot and feeling anxious about the situation in Queensland (and now NSW and Victoria) I have been working hard on finishing my home office makeover (finally!), as well as working on some freelance design work for DanversCreative.com. Just [...]

The 2010/11 Summer projects have begun!

By ⋅ January 7, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

So, the neutral (cream) walls of our house, that were absolutely one of the things that sold the house to me 2 and half years ago (what can I say, I’m an aesthetics kind of girl, not very logical or sensible when buying a house but there you go), are now just yellow and they [...]

Flowers in my garden

By ⋅ December 30, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

After some very heavy rains in Canberra in November and December, my garden is doing pretty well =) I took some quick snaps on my new Canon Ixus the other day to share. The Agapanthas are not very amazing, as they are *everywhere* in Canberra, but I’m really happy they’re flowering because I replanted them [...]

Christmas Wrapping & Decorations 2010

By ⋅ December 24, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

It’s Christmas Eve! We’ve just finished up Christmas #1, which I’ll post about later, but for now I’d like to share a few of our Chrissy decorations and also how I’ve wrapped some of my presents. I wanted to be a little bit creative with wrapping this year (though, as with most things, I got [...]

House extension plans!

By ⋅ November 2, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Since going around to open houses last weekend with Chloé (as moral support) and getting some ideas, I’ve been getting a bit excited and playing in Google Sketchup with ideas for our extension/renovation plans. This won’t be happening for awhile yet (need to wait til there’s more equity in the house) but I like to [...]

Home office makeover – sneak peek

By ⋅ September 1, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The home office makeover is definitely underway… I was going to start this post with “The home office makeover is *almost* finished” but that would have been a big lie. It seems like it should be almost finished, but in reality there’s many things still to be done! I did put up the new panel [...]

Entry Interior Design – finished

By ⋅ July 19, 2010 ⋅ 5 comments

Well, almost finished… nothing is ever “done” around here! A few days ago I realised I hadn’t posted an update on our entry hall room thinger after I first posted about it and we did the floors. So here it is! Live Love Laugh wall hangings were a wedding present, they’re available from home wares [...]

Home Office Makeover – the “before”

By ⋅ July 5, 2010 ⋅ 7 comments

I am bad at maths. This is my disclaimer. For the past couple of weeks I’ve been getting a tad excited about planning our home extension, adding to our 2 bed, 1 study, 1 bathroom home: a new 2nd storey master bedroom with en suite + home office. I calculated that we would be able [...]

Laundry Update

By ⋅ June 20, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

I broke my promise. In my last post mentioning my laundry makeover, I promised I wouldn’t spend over $100. I blame Bunnings. Legitimately! I had everything in my shopping trolley, and it all added up to $85. That gave me $15 to purchase the mat for the floor, and it would be $100 even, and [...]

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