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Living WITH Ovarian Cancer
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Recently it was the 3 year anniversary of my cancer diagnosis. I celebrated
with a beautiful dinner out with my husband Paul.
It was a moment of celeb...
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*Fast forward six years!*
I’ve left this blog behind, but occasionally I still get people contacting
me for information or advice.
After spending hundre...
Mapping your wifi network
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In my earlier blog post about powerline networks, I noted that our wifi
range extender didn't seem to work in our extension. I haven't been sure.
In theory...
SOLD! Settled. So long 3977.
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This build. This house. It was really something.
And now it's someone else's to love. They have the keys. We've moved.
Out, but not quite moved on.
T...
Round 2, Build!!
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Ding ding! We are off for Round two. This time around, its a much bigger
and more exciting block which allows us to step outside of the normal
project buil...
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Visiting Canberra
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We made a quick trip to Canberra, Australia's capital city, over the
Christmas and New Year period. If you like your fix of mid-century modern
then Canberr...
Flight of the Hummingbird
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I've been busy. I know, we've all been busy.
However, last August, after putting all fears and doubts aside, I finally
opened my own shop. It's called Humm...
DAY 134 - Insulation!
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Today is Insulation day! These guys are not wasting anytime... We have been
in touch with the builder and they are happy to fix our portico. Turns out
thro...
Planning a Renovation
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Before you even start a renovation there are a few things you really need
to consider, rules you need to put in place and discussions you really need
to ...
Green Thumb needed!!
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One thing I have inherited with the purchase of Beechgrove is this
incredibly whimsical garden.
There is a citrus grove, Custard apple trees, Bananas, Ma...
Kate Spade inspired party part 2
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This party was so much fun to plan. The cake was made by a friend and it
was the first time she had ever attempted something so special...it almost
kil...
January, 2014
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Happy New Year. 2014, How time flies.
Everything is bubbling along.
We still have a couple of rooms to paint. Perhaps these holidays.
Our office/junkroom...
Photos
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Ok so here is a few more photos I found on FB, got lazy and didn't want to
clean up for you Stormy!!! Went to the sales instead!! So here are a few so
you ...
Owl Cake.
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My Daughter had her 12th Birthday way back in August, and she wanted an owl
inspired cake, as owls seem to all the rage with her at the moment. I set
about...
Reloved furniture project: Vintage pot cupboard
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I wonder if anyone actually remembers this "little" project from a long,
long while back? It turned out to be a bit of a bugger of a job, and I lost
patien...
Front of house
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Our little (or not so little renovation as we have found) hit the five year
mark in April this year and alas we are still going - might need to rename
my b...
Life is Busy
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Looking after the lovely Isla (and at twenty months she is full of beans)
on Tuesday's until Cheryl and Gus (the other grandparents) get back from a
holida...
Life Lately
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Forgive this discombobulated post of random happenings around here lately.
And by lately I mean over a month and a half. I know, I know. It's been
awhi...
The First Birthday
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On January 18th 2013 our little, or not so little, guy turned one!
A big milestone for him but seemingly an even bigger one for us.
We made it. Done. Comple...
Northern Road Oval - Jordan Springs
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Looks like the plans for this were submitted and we should be getting
letters in the post soon about this one. The Jordan Springs sports oval. We
will have...
Building Our Home
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Wait, what happened to the Building Our Home website?
We are in the process of refreshing our site. In the coming weeks we’ll be
adding more of the informat...
Happy Anniversary
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*Cannot believe we have been in our new home for exactly one year, and what
a long way we have come!*
*This is the before:-*
*December 2011* * And this is ...
Colour Me Happy
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Each year at Christmas I tend to do a 'colour' theme. Last year was blues
and silver as seen in the pics below.
This year I'm heading down the 'red, white...
Kids Cubby Houses
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I'm doing some dream shopping/browsing and I thought I would share with you
what I would get our children for Christmas if my husband agreed with me.
For ...
2 Year Anniversary
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It has been a long time since I last posted and tomorrow 13.11.12 will be
two years since we moved into our house. We all love our new abode and have
no pl...
Bright LED Down lighting
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I have used some LED Down lights to replace the dull CFL GU10 globes that
we received when the build was complete and handed over by Wisdom ..
these lights...
I've Moved To Wordpress
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Ok, so I've moved to Wordpress and this is the last post you will ever see
on this dear old bloggy of mine. Blogger has been so good to me. I've been
her...
The End is Nigh....
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Well, after a tumultuous 18 months Tony and I are now going our seperate
ways...and one of the first casualty is the house. :(
I love my house dearly bu...
Handover tomorrow
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Tomorrow is the big day, we have handover booked in for 12:30 (assuing
everything has been fixed that we indentified at inspection).
We are really exci...
Flooring done
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Floorboards are finally laid and we are should now be ready to move in.
We went with bamboo flooring inspired by our neighbor, Thigee, who lives
only acros...
3 months in & would we do it again!
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Hello everyone,
Can't believe we have been in our new home for 3 months already.
It will be a year in 2 weeks from when our site began.
Would I do it...
Landscaping - Part Two. The backyard
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Here is a photo roundup of the rear yard landscaping.
Mop Top Robinia's
Deck not quite finished in these photos, more recent photos to be posted
s...
A new one that will begin
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*Thursday (almost Friday), 29 December 2011.* Cliche, brace for a cliche.
Yes, its hard to believe another year has flown past. Time seems to move
faster a...
Back up and in Business
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Lily G Homes is back.
We have been undergoing some small changes and are looking forward to 2012.
It is going to be a brilliant year with many renovation job...
Done and dusted
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The shed is now complete and we spent the weekend moving stuff in, our
ride-on mower with trailer proved very handy moving the heavy items like
left over t...
Garden Mojo
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As the title suggests, we got our gardening mojo on recently and were
*finally* able to put some plants in the backyard!!
Let me remind you of the blandnes...
Inverter
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[image: Inverter by sdabel]
Inverter, a photo by sdabel on Flickr.
Inverter was mounted inside the house with a draw cord for data cable-
later we might ad...
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I can't believe it's been a whole month since my last post! And less than 4
weeks till Christmas. We've had more than our fair share of rain just when
the ...
Anyone still awake?
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OK, so once you actually get into the house, updating the blog becomes a
lower priority, and actually getting stuff done seems to take over all of
your ti...
The morning after.....
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Well its been over a year since I started this blog. The house is now a
home and we have settled in. Still need to finish the fence down the side
of the h...
Day 20 - Concrete cut & Acid etch done....but!
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(Thu 17/11)
Concrete cuts done and acid etch but the concrete cutting guy managed to
scratch up the large double garage door! Not impressed and will be ask...
Terrible internet
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Hubby and I are soooo in love with our house!!! We wake up to wallabies
every morning eating grass, bandicoots, large lace monitor lizards (eating
our chic...
Our Waldorf in all it's Waldorfian Glory....
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Hi All,
So it's been a while since the last post, way too much was going on at the
one time between work and the house and there was no way I could sit for...
Connected again!!
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Hi Guys, we finally have our Internet up and running so I'm connected again
:)
Alot has been happening since we took possession on of the house on
14.10.1...
A Splash of Colour
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its funny how just a little bit of colour can make a big difference to the
feel of a room
we added a couple of these orange pillows to the back lounge ro...
Settlement and Moving Day!
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26th August 2011
Well as promised settlement day arrived and what a traumatic time. If ever
you are building this will be the worst week of the entire proc...
Slowly inching towards handover!
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The fence and the mess out the front has been cleaned up... we can finally
see our house! Looks pretty good!
The pool is nearly finished, just the cappi...
Hear Ye, Hear Ye!
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Melbourne was hit by wild storms on Wednesday! Took me three hours to get
home from work due to the Cranbourne train being cancelled. Frustrated and
w...
DYI Temporary Blinds
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We are moving in very soon. As for many many people building a house window
covering is one of these things left "for later". We need some privacy
though.
...
More Movement
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Well we still don't have a phone line, which still means no Internet. How
can our exchange be filled up while we had out number on hold :(
Anyway since we ...
Lawns and plants
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Backyard before. Levelled the upper backyard area a little, trench dug for
some decent soil along the fence line and added some edging
Front before
Edg...
And we have turf!
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Our new turf finally got laid yesterday, so excited not to have dust and
dirt everywhere now! We went with Palmetto Buffalo Grass:
http://www.palmetto.com...
Come visit!
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We have been in the hosue for nearly 9 months now-and are loving it!
I've started a new blog about our garden and aim to provide as much of our
food as is ...
PhD definition
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PhD - simultaneously feeling as dumb and as smart as you have ever been.
Highly dependent on day of the week and level of understanding of reading
material.
Cushions galore
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Friends as you may recall a couple of posts ago, I was in desperate need of
cushions to give my lounges some life. As luck would have it, a few of my
favou...
Tiling and painting finalised
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Hey all,
We now have complete kitchen, all robes fitted out, floors tiles, walls
painted and all we have left is electrical wrap up, bathroom and kitchen
...
A Long Awaited Update
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The painfully slow progress has continued with the builder causing major
delays during each stage of the build and in between. He tends to blame
everyone e...
13 Week Maintenance Inspection completed
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Wisdom has to get an A+++ for customer service. I had the 13 week after
handover maintenance inspection completed. So in 4 weeks time they will
come and fi...
It never ends...
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Well as you can see we are at it again...This is the retaining wall being
built with the blocks that we purchased one week before our handover for
the ...
One month since we moved in!!
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As the title indicates, we moved into our brand new home 4 weeks ago!! It
has all been quite a blur!! So many things going on...furniture deliveries,
nume...
the pool room floor...
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Our long awaited pool room flooring went in on Friday! It's unique, and has
turned out exactly the way we imagined it. Here's some progress pics... so
happ...
Turf Time
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The hardest and most time consuming task was moving all the soil and turf.
We only had weekends and an hour when we got home from work, but then once
it ...
HANDOVER...WHOO HOO!!!
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On Friday 1st July we received the keys to the house!!! We are extremely
excited and very happy to have access to the house whenever we like....to
own it!...
I have a new blog
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In order to try to get myself blogging again, I decided that I wanted to
create a blog for the things I am doing in my backyard -
http://mybackyardadventur...
Lights, Camera, Action!
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Finally we have splashblack! Frothing Mocha mmmmm!
Chandeliers are up and on! bags not cleaning them Michael!
Double-sided fire place - bags not lighting i...
Day 182: Half a Year
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It's been half a year since completion. How time flies. Nothing major is
happening with the house lately. I'm waiting for the weather to get better
to star...
Finally moved in
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It has been a long journey, we finally got our keys in the middle of March.
A few weeks of driveway concrete pouring, timber floor installation and
carpet ...
Update 21st May 2011
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Had a site inspection with Builder this morning and got to go inside the
house today to have a look. It's been a busy 2 weeks with heaps done in
that time....
Brrr - it's getting cold!
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We've had beautiful cold mornings recently - I took these today:
Our new puppy Ziva is loving the cold - her breed originates from snowy
Japan ...
Driveway great success!
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Our driveway has been completed now and we should be able to drive on it
tomorrow. I think it turned out quite well and the design is different from
what...
ALL MOVED IN - UPDATED PICS
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Finally we moved in on the 5 April 2011. Just loving it here, such a pretty
setting. Very happy with the house we built. Now we are focusing on the
rest of...
Ensuite Tiling
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Ensuite:
"Olive" porcelin tiles (which are grey!)
With a black, silver, and grey linea feature tile.
Vanity Cupboard is Formica White Silver with a Formica...
Some Good News...Mostly Bad
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When our SS got back from leave we called him on his very first morning
back of course. He was of course a bit busy at the stage and needed to
catch up wit...
The day we've been waiting for!
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After almost 8 months of waiting. 20 April 2011. We are the proud owners of
a new M. Home!
A lot of the things in my mind.. perhaps Bunnings Warehouse will...
Week 29 - Clean bricks and locked out
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Coming up to the 'home' stretch now :) Everything is all locked up and for
the first time ever we can't get in....Even though we couldn't get in, it
was g...
FINALLY, WE ARE IN!!
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Well, 7 months (and 5 days!) since our slab was poured we are finally in!
We picked up the keys last Thursday and officially moved in on Friday 11
March so...
Lazy boy
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Sorry all! I have been so busy that I have forgotten all about updating the
blog!!! Landscaping, pool & driveway are completed now. I will update with
pict...
Farewell Summer (An ode to ice-cream)
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Today, in our part of the world, we officially kiss summer goodbye. Today,
in our part of the world, it is still 35degrees celsius! Yes, it is quite
clear ...
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Finished the excavation, concrete peering :
internal drainage done:
preparing for the concrete house slab:
concrete house slab done !! They only spent...
Another Big Adventure
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I probably shouldn't have gone into town after work last night but there
were a few things I wanted to do. When I decided to leave to come home I
had a lit...
Tiles
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The tiling has started. The tiles got delivered on Thursday and the
screeting was completed on Friday. The tiles wil be done on Wednesday and
carpet w...
Yes, we are in!!
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Thanks for your comments and messages folks!! I can confirm that we
are...and have been in our new Metricon home since late November.
Unfortunately, its ...
Slab Poured
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Garage
Entrance
House
Alfresco
At last Slab Poured last week weather was kind enough for the builder to do
his excavation, piering and the concretor...
Pictures of our dream home.
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Hello my little friends I thought that I would show you a few pictures of
our home..............
This is our formal lounge room I totally love how it has...
We are all moved in....
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Hi everyone, well we are finally finished. There is still a lot to be
done... our back and side fences, which should be complete today or
tomorrow. I need ...
Hi - my new blog!
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Hi everyone
Im creating a blog in order to remember the heartache and sweat that is and
has gone into building our house. Particularly from my dad and brot...
PCI done
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We were hoping for a nice dry day for the pci today. Alas the dry weather
didn't hold, and we found ourselves wading through the mud as we did the
pci...
29. A lot happening
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This week we have had timber floor installation, painting, cabinetry
installation, tiling, painting, electrical fitoff and door installation all
happening....
We have a plan...
-
Our plans of a modified version of a Barbados design have finally been
drawn up and apart from a few minor changes, we're very happy with the
design.
Cheng...
Almost done!
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Hi All,
Had PCI a few weeks back. House is looking really good, so happy as larry.
Have handover on Monday so please enjoy these pictures.
Going to be a...
Tiling is almost complete....
-
Was at the house yesterday and the tiling is almost complete, just the
grouting to be done. In the past week or so they have also done the
electrical fit ...
THAT'S IT FROM US!!!
-
Here are our final photo's with a few of our things in here....still
waiting for delivery for some things and the lawn needs to be done....very
pleased wi...
Let the Bricking Begin!!!
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Well now the builders are going full steam ahead!! Our Bricking started on
the 14-10-10 and the pictures i have taken below where taken on the
15-10-10. We...
We gardened!
-
Here is the evidence of our first foray into the world of gardening :) (Im
pretty sure I already managed to poison some of these plants though!)
Update
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Hi All,
I've decided that I don't have time to update here, facebook and my homeone
thread.
I've moved all of my posts/updates and photos to my homeone th...
All moved in!
-
Here are our "current" pics - was going to call them the finished product
but we are by no means finished! (we're not even half started!)
Upstairs view fr...
Bye bye {for a little while}
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Hi everyone!
Julie-Ann and I have decided to take a holiday from this bloggy. I am so
busy here and here and Julie-Ann is flat out with the Decorating Foru...
Render and staining complete
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The render and wood staining are now complete! We're estimating handover in
about 4 to 6 weeks. The builder is completing the final touchups before
quality...
The Big Move
-
Sorry for the delay once again - things just keep getting busier. We have
our keys! Floorboard and carpet installation is organised for next Tues and
Wed 7...
Handover on TUESDAY!!!
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All going to plan with the Bank we are due to have handover on Tuesday!! :)
Woo hooo!!! It's so exciting! Tom got a call today from our site supervisor
who...
Who is excited for an update?!?!
-
Well this is going to be smidge longer than my last entry because we have
had some adventures since my first post! I hope you make it to the bottom
because...
Tiles, Basins and Benchtops :)
-
The Powder Room-I am planning to either paint or wall paper a feature wall
behind the pedestal sink
The laundry
The Bathroom
Feature Tile-Wall Candy Humbu...
Worst nightmare - House gets a "Defect" put on it
-
I almost don't want to write this blog. It's sickens me to have to put down
on paper what this week has brought.
But everyone who has written to me about...
Day 155: We Got The Keys!!!
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yehey.. we got the keys today for our house and Carlisle even gave us some
gifts -- kettle and toaster.
now to start the move.. we got 28 days before the l...
PCI NEXT WEEK!!!
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Render
Entrance
Carpet in Master Bedroom
Carpet in Second Bedroom
Marble Bench Top
Ensuite Toilet and Shower
Ensuite Taps
Bathroom Shower and Taps...
-
I'll post some inspiration pics, taken from displays that we just love.
We always come back to the same type of colours/themes.
One particular display that...
Final papers
-
Well I've faxed all the paperwork I need to fax to the bank and organised
some home & contents insurance so the bank will pay the final invoice...
The only...
The light at the end of the tunnel...
-
...and there it is, our hallway! Not such a fab photo but a lovely view to
the front is there somewhere (until the house smack bang in the middle of
sh...
Colour selections done!
-
Well it has been a while since I've blogged about our house. Until now,
nothing has happened since the soil test, and that happened at Easter. It
has taken...
1 step forward, 1 step back
-
We went down to see the house on the weekend.
Got a quote for concreting... Going to organise another one or two for
later this week.
Also went searching ...
WE GOT THE KEYS!!!!!!!!!!
-
PCI was 11am, everything good so we signed on the dotted line, picked up
the bank cheque at 2pm and drove over the SImonds HQ to pick up the keys!!!
Phil h...
PCI Completed - Inspection report response
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Hello Dear Readers,
First about the surprise which I talk about in last post. I became dad of a
health baby boy.
Now the house news...
Independent inspect...
What to do....
-
Today we both got an email from our real estate showing us that the reason
titles are taking so long, and the reason that they haven't released the
next st...
the Plan
-
the above is the elevation. it will have a brick band. the peaks are cedar
finish which will match in with my garage door and front door. also added
finn...
It's Sitting By The Overcoat, The 2nd Shelf...
-
As the name implies, it has been a Long Day today. We were all up at 0630
to move the beds and remaining bits of furniture into the kitchen for an
arrival ...
Here's something you don't see everyday.....
-
.....a house in it's lived-in, untidy, true state! lol I'm either
incredibly brave or incredibly stupid for posting pics like these, but we
live here, no u...
Day 159 - Settlement
-
THAT'S RIGHT!!!! Today we got the keys. Let's not get too excited though
because not everything is finished yet. Due to the wedding and also my site
superv...
-
Once again I have been slack.... We are now completed and have our
inspection on Tuesday morning and hopefully handover the week after! We
have our certifi...
Driveway
-
Here are the pics of the driveway being laid:
It was kind of still dark when the boys from Mark Wood Paving Showed up!
The concrete truck from Cranbour...
My Bunch of Florals
-
As per usual I can't stop at just one of something. My latest flame? I love
vintage framed pictures of roses and flowers. ( Don't forget about my
floral T...
Happy new year!!!! Bring on 2011!
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