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renovations

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{BATHROOM RENO} All systems are go!

By ⋅ September 21, 2011 ⋅ One comment

After a long long wait (almost 2 years since my last post about it!), buying all the parts, finding the right people and saving enough money, our bathroom renovation is finally under way! As I type this from my mum & dad’s place, my friend Rob is at our place de-tiling, patching and whatever else [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Monday projects [kind of] completed

By ⋅ January 4, 2010 ⋅ One comment

As I said yesterday, today’s jobs included painting the black bookshelf, painting the wooden bookshelf, and ripping up the hallway carpets and start counter-sinking nails. Well I’ve done 2 coats of the black bookshelf, I’ll do the last coat tomorrow morning. And I managed to rip up the hallway carpet and underlay and get half [...]

Plans for our small bathroom renovation

By ⋅ November 11, 2009 ⋅ 12 comments

Our house has only one bathroom (until we extend upwards and add a master bedroom with ensuite, in about 10 years), so it needs to work for us now as a couple, but also for us as a family in the future. The bathroom is small, 1.65 x 2.25m, and has a shower, vanity and [...]

DIY House – How to give your kitchen a facelift for under $300

By ⋅ August 2, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The very first thing I did when we moved in was to paint over the kitchen cupboard doors and change all the handles. The kitchen was a beautiful peachy pink and dusky blue colour scheme, with brown and gold marbled handles. Very chic. I used white knight laminate paint to change the colour of all [...]

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