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Weekend Plans

By ⋅ May 21, 2010 ⋅ One comment

This weekend while JA is playing soccer I’ll be attending Heidi‘s 1st Birthday! She is such a little cutie, I can’t wait =) Sunday is going to be my “work” day. Apart from about a gazillion loads of washing that need doing, I’d really like to knock over a couple of the following: Do 2nd [...]

Front Garden Update

By ⋅ May 17, 2010 ⋅ One comment

It’s been a little while since I posted anything from the garden, because to be honest I haven’t been doing all that much! Only a little bit here and there…Which I guess add up to quite a bit of difference when it’s so long between updates! Here’s the front when we moved in: And after [...]

Spare room paint job

By ⋅ April 30, 2010 ⋅ 7 comments

Here are the before and after photos of the spare room, newly painted! The colour is Dulux “Plume”, which is a lovely deep turquoise. There is still lots to do in the room, including a second coat of white on the cupboard doors, so this is not a whole room reveal, just the wall colour [...]

Front Garden Landscaping

By ⋅ April 17, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The landscaping of my gardens are always a work in progress… We have such a large block, that there is just so much ground to take care of! I’ve broken it down into areas and am working on them one by one, but that means there are other areas that look horrible until I can [...]

DIY Chair Cover

By ⋅ April 6, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

I apologise in advance for these terrible photos of my latest pretty-much-but-not-quite completed project. We inherited double and single seater couches from JA’s parents when we first moved out of home. They were really good quality and super comfy, but I wanted to upgrade to a bigger couch, so we recently passed the double seater [...]

TADA moment for my DIY Timber Floorboards

By ⋅ January 20, 2010 ⋅ 5 comments

And here they are! Now, these photos are evidence that timber floors get really dusty. Really quickly. I’m talking a matter of hours, not even days. So of course I’ll need to sweep them probably every second day and mop twice a week… but you know what? I’d much rather do that than have the [...]

Another floors update!

By ⋅ January 16, 2010 ⋅ 4 comments

I promise I will post something more exciting tomorrow (think handmade goodies and other pretty things), but I just had to show another progress photo of my floors because oh. my. goodness. I am in love. With my dodgy DIY timber floors. They are GORGEOUS. This photo was taken yesterday, showing the first coat of [...]

I feel like baking, but…

By ⋅ January 14, 2010 ⋅ 3 comments

My husband is doing this: My living room still looks like this: My kitchen looks like this: And the whole house is covered in a layer of this: So maybe I’ll wait until next week to bake.

Floorboards update

By ⋅ January 13, 2010 ⋅ One comment

All the carpet is up, nails countersunk and staples removed! Our good friend Scott is bringing over is whizzbang sander today to show me how to use it, and I’ll give the floors a once over with that, then apply the stain. I’m hoping to be able to put one coat of estapol on today, [...]

Preparing to stain and polish our floorboards

By ⋅ January 10, 2010 ⋅ One comment

As I’ve posted a few times before, the carpet in our house is a yukky pink/peach colour. It’s in really good condition, as I think the previous owners laid it in the 90′s, but I can’t stand it. I hate the colour, but I also just don’t like carpet very much. It holds so much [...]

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