tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51553602454218294662024-03-14T17:53:03.072+10:00Sunshine and Paint PotsDocumenting our first time reno..and more!Kate and Colhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06030828314929884759noreply@blogger.comBlogger115125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155360245421829466.post-19167002694391402552018-04-25T20:05:00.001+10:002018-04-25T20:05:16.014+10:00Four Years On...<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>How time flies when you're having fun...</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's hard to believe it's been four years since we moved out to the Cape. I thought I'd mark this anniversary by posting a few progression snaps as to how things have changed exterior/landscaping wise here since we moved out to our little patch of paradise by the beach...</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2013 - The Agents original 'For Sale' picture - amazing we even made it out here to look!!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2016 - Garage built in, new carport, bamboo planted</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2017 - Bamboo growing, Frangipani planted, Grass dying (Water Restrictions Level 3)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2018 - Grass coming back !!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2018 - Poolside</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2013 - Side of House</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2018 - Side of House</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2014 - Entertaining Area to Yard</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2018 - Entertaining to Yard (still much to do here)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2017 - Back Yard</span></td></tr>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;">Still a few windows and doors to change out</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">A few remaining hallway walls to paint</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Renovate the entertaining area</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Renovate the front entry</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">External paint !!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;">Final landscaping...</span></li>
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<br />Kate and Colhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06030828314929884759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155360245421829466.post-44072416438263551532017-02-19T14:02:00.000+10:002017-02-19T14:02:51.002+10:00Reusing, Re-purposing, Recycling<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been doing a bit of a clean up and getting some long overdue jobs done, which involved taking to the dump some leftover building and construction items from when we built in the front garage, and re-purposing some items we had kept. While doing this I rediscovered (hiding behind the garden shed), two steel screens that were from either side of the garage (that had been put there by the previous owner), which I had salvaged at the time from the builders dumpster. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I knew I wanted to use these somehow in our landscaping, and it was only recently while sitting by the pool having a <i>'sundowner'</i>, that I knew exactly how these could be best re-purposed...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's been a while since doing a blog post so, I forgot to take photos of your's truly constructing the screen, which would re-purpose the old metal screens from the garage...</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The old white screens have been resprayed black, and old timber from the dump recycle shop has been added, to fill in some gaps and allow plants to climb up.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The top piece of recycled timber had an old metal bracket and bolts affixed, <br />which came in handy for hanging the garden bird feeder from.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's about it for now, another job ticked off the never ending to do list...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cheers, Col</span><br />
<br />Kate and Colhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06030828314929884759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155360245421829466.post-28846118303191158672016-11-20T14:10:00.000+10:002016-11-20T14:10:47.477+10:00A picture is worth a thousand words...<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We've made some progress in recent weeks, with Kate tackling the painting of the hallway wall which we had rendered...oh I don't know, maybe 12 - 18 months ago... but let's not rush these things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So long story short it means we can start getting some of our artwork hung that has been lazing around leaning against the wall. Given we've moved around quite a lot over the years before digging our heels in the sand in North Queensland, these items meant a lot to us as we moved from home to home, state to state, country to country. So it's been nice this weekend to finally get a few of them out on display again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After a little while she flew off up to a tree and that was that, our baby had gone...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our girls were so upset when they got home from school. But so thankful that she decided to fly the nest while I was here to see it and capture it on camera...what luck!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">PS. From Col - Since beginning this blog post, there have been more families through the nest (5 or 6 but we are losing count), plus some minor infrastructure works in and around the nest. Each bird adds to the nest, and sometimes depending on the time of the year, Kate has to put up some protection for the nest to shield it from the Western sun. Given we are back focusing on renos I'll leave you with some shots from recent residents of the "Nest 'neath the Bell"...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">which have been in pots for the last two years waiting...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and greenery outside our Master Bedroom window</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just the pergola to go up now and this side is done!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cheers, Col</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The path to minimal gardening I might add. This is the southern side of the house and as you would have seen in the previous post this was a weedy/grassy area with no path to the back of the house where the clothesline, shed, chook pen and veggie garden are. Keeping in mind we are in a low rainfall area for significant parts of the year, the aim was to keep this side of the house as low maintenance as possible, and we have used 25mm bluestone as a mulch and planted drought tolerant plants such as succulents where possible thus far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the last two weeks we have had the new concrete path laid and have continued on with the landscaping. I was amazed with the amount of soil that needed to be shifted from what seemed like not a big project, but looks can be deceiving. Two box trailers of mixed soil/concrete went off site, one box trailers worth of clean soil went to the neighbour next door for a new garden bed they are building, and the remaining soil went to a new garden bed out the front of our house. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Prepping the ground for paving where the new kitchen herb</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The new herb trolley (our old BBQ). All the BBQ plates etc</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">where the hotplates where, and make a stand to go on </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> The path comes out and meets up now with the carport slab</span></div>
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No not an English pub and no pun intended, this is literally my fence post, a post about our fence upgrade and the path we took to get there ;-)</div>
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This is how the Southern boundary of the property looked when we moved in...<br />
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No idea what that mark is on the photo above ?! Anyway, the existing fence consisted of galvanised posts, PVC coated chain wire, plus there was no path from the laundry door (halfway down house) to the washing line at the rear of the house - just grass/weeds.</div>
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At the rear of the property was the traditional Hills Hoist clothes line, which was removed to make way for the new shed and chicken pen.</div>
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Once the new shed was completed we had a new concrete path installed to go from the laundry down to the shed and new clothes line (now mounted on the back wall of the house).</div>
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Once the path was installed I set about making a chook pen at the back, with the eventual aim of making a bigger more permanent enclosure than the current coop, which we purchased when we first got the chickens.</div>
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This involved putting in a 1.8m high paling fence where the chook pen would go, which would then taper down to a 1.2m high paling boundary fence.</div>
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Once the 1.8m high section at the rear was complete, I started at the front of the fence and tackled it in sections, cutting off and pulling back the PVC coated chain wire, and then replacing with treated pine palings for a more modern look.</div>
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This process took longer than I thought as we chose to retain the existing galvanised steel pipes used as the posts and bearers for the fence. This meant pre-drilling each hole and then using a self tapping screw to secure the palings. Why pre-drill for self tapping screws I hear you ask? Well that galvanised steel is about 30 years old and tougher than concrete, so the pre-drilling sped up the process and reduced the amount of screws that failed to go all the way in on the first attempt!</div>
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This is the first section completed and we were happy with the result and how it looked compared to the original fence. This took the better part of a day...</div>
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And the remainder the better part of the following two weekends. But now that this was done, this meant that I could get started on the landscaping, putting in the plants that we had been temporarily been holding in pots (see the photos below) and putting down 25mm bluestone as mulch.<br />
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And the finished result with the plants in and the bluestone down.<br />
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And below you can see the chicken coop and pen which has been built, and the passion fruit vine I planted for the girls is doing well getting established. I also put up a bird feeder (which we brought home from America) to keep the native birds from trying to steal the chicken's feed.</div>
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So all in all a lot of hard work but really happy to see progress being made and our vision coming together. Next step on the Southern boundary is to install a new path from the laundry door to the carport slab out front, and erect a pergola over the kitchen and dining room window, so that we continue with the landscaping and complete this side of the house.</div>
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The list of things to do never ends!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes it's been six months since our last update, but we haven't been lazy, just crazy buzy. Start of another school year, both of us working, and me committing all available spare time to completing my post graduate finance studies. Reno works have been intermittent at best, but we have been plodding along and now are ready to tackle the remaining jobs on 'the list'. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But we do feel like we are finally putting our stamp on this place so thought it would be good to look back at how this house has evolved over time (there's going to be some obvious variation in photo quality due to changes in technology, but I'm sure you get the idea)...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First photo we ever saw of our Cabin by the Sea.</span></div>
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<i>(Glenn Blanco from Total Span completed the carport supply and construction for us - </i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you can see our house continues to evolve, and I'll try and be a little more frequent in updating its progress, now that I've got some more free time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cheers, Col</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">PS. No matter which way you look at it, life is better at the beach ! #cabinbythesea #lifeisbetteratthecape</span><br />
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<br />Kate and Colhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06030828314929884759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155360245421829466.post-56645666736729035672015-12-29T17:22:00.001+10:002015-12-29T17:22:02.894+10:00The Year That Disappeared...<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where on earth did this year go - well a lot of it was consumed by our renovation; and our blogging of said reno evaporated between work, family, study and school. I dip my hat to Caroline from West End Cottage because delivering weekly updates while in the process of project managing a reno and raising a family is an achievement in its own right. And while we have failed miserably in the blogging, I want to start loading some photos and writing brief blog posts where possible as I think it is important to finish documenting our (still a work in progress) renovation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our biggest achievement has been the extension - building in the two car garage to deliver a new Master Suite, complete with ensuite and walk in robe, as well as a separate storage area at the front of the house for the bikes and frequently accessed items. And when I say we, I mean Kate, as this build has been her responsibility and she has done a grand job in delivering our new 'digs'. So below is a photo journal taking us through from construction starting to fit out commencing...</span></div>
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Adult lego building blocks arrive</div>
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The blockies begin their magic</div>
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Initial block-work complete</div>
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New window ledge laid for Master Suite</div>
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New slab laid for Master Suite</div>
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New Walk-in Robe</div>
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The Boss oversees construction</div>
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Master bedroom back to door to house</div>
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Stud wall separates storeroom from bedroom</div>
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New wall cavity for Smart TV</div>
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Plasterboard rough fit out</div>
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Master Bedroom</div>
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Plaster and Insulation fit out (WIR)</div>
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Ensuite Window Cavity</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Omg. I haven't written anything on here for what seems like years, in fact it may very well be one whole year that I actually sat down and typed up a post. I really have no excuses apart from life getting in the way. (Oh and unexpectedly going back to work after 11 years of being a stay at home mum...whoa that was and still is a shock to the system) Thank goodness Col managed to find time to get a few posts out there to keep the momentum going a little! I absolutely take my hat off to those bloggers who manage to post things weekly, heck some of them do it daily, I have no idea how. Well done you! (I give you all virtual back pats)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyhow I digress, the reason I have had this urge to get something out there into the great wide world of webs is quite an exciting one. *Note - if you're not into nature and the environment around us please click that little 'x' now cos you won't find this fun at all. But for those like me, who love, love, love all creatures great and small, (apart from spiders, I don't love spiders...urghh, vomit... I hate spiders) please do read on cos this is soooo soooo special.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have to begin way back at the end of 2014 to start this gorgeous story......</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the end of Poppy's Prep year she made the most amazing hanging mobile out of driftwood. Lots of the other kids mobiles were a <strike>mess</strike> wonderful collection of whatever they could <strike>be bothered to</strike> lovingly thread together and were sparce and looked like... well they looked like a 5 yr olds work of art really. Of course I may be totally biased, BUT Poppy's was just beautiful, perfectly matched pieces of wood, different coloured beads in between each piece and the perfect length. Honestly I would have bought it in an en-trend interior store, no worries at all! As soon as term was over I said to her teacher if there is one thing I want to take home it's that mobile...I loved it and knew it would take pride of place hanging out the front of our house where we and all our guests could see it every day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One day just as we were leaving the house we were shocked to see a bird flit past us as though it had departed our house at the same time as us. The next day the same thing happened, so the following day we stood and watched through the screen door and saw this gorgeous little sun bird flying back and forth trying to build herself a brand new nest. Clearly she has great style and in her wisdom had decided Poppy's mobile was the prefect place to start. Unfortunately she had tried over and over to attach the first pieces to the top of the hanger piece which is a slippery piece of plastic thread. So the more she tried the more it kept falling off and littering our front porch. But still she came back day after day trying to get that first piece to stick. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Apparently they desert the nest for a week after full completion and then come back to lay eggs later on...so far the nest is still fully tenanted so who knows, but hopefully we will have an update with a few little extras in coming weeks.</span></div>
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Kate and Colhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06030828314929884759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155360245421829466.post-76341315139892615422015-07-26T16:10:00.000+10:002015-07-26T17:05:51.602+10:00And the Master Suite Build Begins...<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...that is to say, demolition has begun - it's going to look worse before it looks better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is what happens when you go away for a week long work conference and 5 minutes after you're gone your wife (#sitemanager) lets the builder loose with a concrete saw... #noturningbacknow</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cheers, Col</span>Kate and Colhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06030828314929884759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155360245421829466.post-21065236154680592532015-06-29T06:18:00.001+10:002015-06-29T14:39:32.550+10:00A long overdue update...<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes I know it's been two months since our last update, and we have been useless at blogging to keep friends and family up to date on our progress. But we have been making progress on a load of things to do with the house, in amongst all the daily activities involved with raising a young family, and then there has been my post-grad study taking up what's left of my free time. But here's what we've been up to:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The laundry ceiling was repaired and new cornices installed.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The kitchen has been gutted completely.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All the old hallway and kitchen lights and fans were removed, the ceiling fan relocated and new pendants (over the island) and LED down-lights installed.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The kitchen and hallway ceilings have been repaired and prepped for painting.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">New kitchen installed (post to follow in due course but 'before' and interim 'sneak peak' shots below).</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Installed a new double 'wall bed' in the guest room (doubles as a desk and a bed), the idea of which we got from <a href="http://www.finlayhomes.com.au/" target="_blank">Finlay Homes</a> 'Innovation House' (<a href="http://www.sunshineandpaintpots.com/2014/02/be-brave-take-risks.html" target="_blank">which we wrote about here</a>).</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kate has been coordinating everything above (<i>when I say everything, I mean EVERYTHING!!</i>), in addition to starting part-time work, and is hoping to have some free time in the not to distant future to do some 'crafty' things for her. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So while I apologise for the delayed update, you can see we haven't exactly been twiddling our thumbs !! I'm going to devote some time to putting together a couple of blog posts to show off the finished laundry (cum butlers pantry) as well as the new kitchen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Crack the bubbly - the wheels are finally in motion after receiving the following in relation to preliminary design plans...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So now that the above structure is approved we can finalise the working drawings for the builder and tradies, and then get our builder locked in and a 'development permit building works' application submitted for approval. In the interim Kate is arranging the works to change out the dining room window for a stacker door, so that the final measurements can be done for the new kitchen to be fitted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So we continue to grind slowly forward with the renovation. As you recall from our last post we had received the draft plans and were reviewing them to see if there were any changes to be made. We thought about some minor adjustments and got perspectives from other people then went back to the building designer to lock in the plans that would go to Council for approval, and then be approved for workings drawings to be drafted. The plans are too big to put up in detail on the blog, so below are 'snippets' of each section of the house moving from the rear to the front (which put together is the whole plan).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">PS. The sparse blogging is due to Kate project managing ongoing works we have been doing and herding cats (the girls school activities), and me trying to balance work with post-grad study with weekend 'small' projects. But we'll try and keep them coming :-)</span></div>
<br />Kate and Colhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06030828314929884759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155360245421829466.post-25218895486527638372015-03-26T06:57:00.001+10:002015-03-26T06:57:30.941+10:00Draft House Plan is In !<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes while I know we have been el-slacko on the blog-o it has certainly not been quiet, but the good news is the draft house plans for the renovation and extension are in ! Kate and I meet with the building designer next week to get some minor changes made, and then the working drawings can be produced. Kate also sees the cabinet maker next week to lock down the final design for the kitchen ans select fittings and finishes. Exciting times :-)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For those who are interested here are two sneak peeks of the draft plans, including the new Master Suite we will get by building in the double garage, and an exterior shot showing the new carport, pergola and timber decking to the entry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cheers, Col</span>Kate and Colhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06030828314929884759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155360245421829466.post-87210777668104601572015-02-20T06:57:00.000+10:002015-02-20T08:52:31.036+10:00Time to relax...<div style="text-align: justify;">
After a pretty solid six week block of renovating projects consuming all our free time we made a point of taking Scotty's instructions on The Block ("Tools down!") and having a min break at home. We were long overdue to take some time out to unwind and recharge the batteries.</div>
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It was great to have a break from the renovations, which is just as well as this week has been kitchen planning week for Kate, as well as some trim painting and getting some ceiling plastering repairs done in the laundry. Speaking of the latter, we shouldn't be too far off completing that and getting some 'after' pictures up to show you the end result.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week marks the start of the main phase of the renovation of our <a href="http://www.sunshineandpaintpots.com/2014/01/a-cabin-by-sea.html" target="_blank">'Cabin by the Sea'</a>. However with all the work we have done over the holidays, it feels like we need a break, but it's full steam ahead with design meetings booked and tradesmen coming to tackle other projects we have in motion already.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are meeting with two building designers this week which we have short listed, so that has meant making sure we know what the key ideas we want implemented are, and then getting them detailed in a master plan for council / building certification approvals. Then we can crack on and get moving on the physical construction. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have spent a little bit of time lately playing around with a rough outline of what we are hoping to get done...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the benefits of living in a property before renovating is you get the opportunity to see what works and what doesn't, and whether your original ideas survive both the changing seasons, as well as your ongoing scrutiny of your design brief. For example, when we first moved in we looked at ways to improve the outdoor entertaining area, I was leaning towards tiles, and Kate was leaning towards decking. But over time we've come back to decking as a preference because the house (being a masonry block home) lacks some timber tones. After seeing the <a href="http://www.houzz.com.au/photos/7205131/floreat-project-contemporary-deck-perth" target="_blank">following picture online</a>, this is certainly the type of look and feel that we are after and hope to achieve...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While the above two projects are not beyond our capability to design, quote, source materials and coordinate tradesmen during construction, the next project and the main part of the renovation will be breaking new ground for us; building in the double garage to convert this space into a Master Bedroom Suite complete with en-suite and walk in robe. I have been wanting to do this since seeing the <a href="http://www.jazzhomes.com.au/display-homes-townsville/" target="_blank">Jazz Homes <i>Machin</i> display home at North Shore</a> last year, and it's Master Bedroom (below) is a good hint at what we are hoping to achieve...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And last but not least we'll be aiming to build a double carport out front and improve the facade of the existing house, to give it a little bit of street appeal that it currently lacks. A couple of designs (without the carport) that provide inspiration include the <a href="http://www.jazzhomes.com.au/property/machan-247/" target="_blank">Machin 247 (by Jazz Homes)</a> and the <a href="http://mcdonaldjoneshomes.com.au/home-designs/new-south-wales-and-queensland/beach-house/facades" target="_blank">Beach House (by McDonald-Jones Homes)</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">P.S. It's back to school week for the girls as well. As if Kate needed anymore things to juggle this week ;-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For now let me bring you up to date with the laundry renovation as it seems some time ago that we <a href="http://www.sunshineandpaintpots.com/2014/11/gutting-laundry.html" target="_blank">started this project</a>. Our cabinet maker (who we used on the last house) delayed the job until just before Xmas, then said he needed to delay it until the first week of January. We hadn't heard from him at the end of the first week of January, so we contacted him and he said all my other jobs are taking longer than expected, and if you want to take the job elsewhere please feel free to do so! So we did - we gave the job to ourselves - a job which we had wanted to do from the start but time wise it was too hectic for us to tackle in the last two months of 2014. However the start of 2015 has given us the time, and our former Tradie has given us the motivation, to tackle this project ourselves. So read on to see how we are progressing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The above photo is the 'before' shot, although the brand new integrated Bosch washer dryer was due to the old top loader dying weeks premature before its original intended demise!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After much deliberation, we decided to go for the Flatpack laundry cabinets from Bunnings over the Kaboodle range. While the Kaboodle range offers wider options in terms of cabinets and colours, it is also more expensive. We thought the white would tie in well with the existing floor tiles (at the end of the day, it's just a laundry...) and we would look to the bench top and splash back tiles to jazz things up a bit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Almost finished part one of the fit out. Our plumber Ray returns this week to fit the sink and mixer, and then I can install the end panel between it and the Bosch front loader, followed by the wall cabinets and bench top, and then Kate and our tiler can crack on and install the splash back. There will also be a void ~900mm wide underneath which is where we plan to put a portable ironing trolley.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know we keep saying it's only a laundry, but while we were looking at the laundry in this new layout and the position of the void, it dawned on us that this large laundry room could potentially do double duty as Kate's sewing room. You get a nice breeze through the screen door and plenty of natural light during the day, plus the mobile ironing trolley can be set up against the back wall for easy use whenever Kate is making one of her dresses for the girls. Which is pretty cool, because while it's just a laundry, it makes sense to make it more functional than remaining just a laundry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have been a bit quiet on the blogging front, for a couple of reasons. First of all it has been the usual silly season approach in the lead up to Xmas, and rather than get tied down with social media over the holidays and blogging, we wanted to make the most of our first Xmas in the house. Secondly, we had some big jobs to get done in the short time that I had off over Xmas, so we made that a priority, and get done they did !! So read on and see what we got up to on our 'break' ;-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The happy snap of Sasha is a good indication that landscaping was one of those jobs on the to do list.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Which meant I got to crack on, go shopping at Bunnings, and start putting together the work bench and storage units :-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is just the start, as both walls have floor to ceiling storage which means we could free up space in the garage (and can now actually park the car in there!).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once that was done it was time for another quick trip to Bunnings on Xmas Eve to buy a chicken coop, then dash home to get it put together in time for the arrival of four new chickens for the girls, of which Kate can fill you in on the details later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It also meant getting rid of this old garden bed, as the Paw-Paw trees in the photo were blown over during the last cyclone (early 2014), and we found termite damage about four weeks before Xmas. This required us to have the garden bed sleepers treated, then wait a couple of weeks before getting rid of the affected timber.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Which was no small task I can assure you. Digging out the sleepers and getting rid of the top layer of accumulated weeds and clippings meant two trips to the dump, all done by shovel and barrow (by yours truly) in the heat of the day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To get some plants for the garden bed alongside the pool we took a drive out of town to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/WoodysTreeAndWormFarm" target="_blank">Woody's Tree and Worm Farm</a>. Woody's an ex-pat Pom with a great sense of humour, and has a wide range of stock that you can buy at half the price of major nursery's and hardware chains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Hope your break was as productive as ours, and here's to a good year ahead with some major renovations planned to take place. Wish us luck !!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cheers, Col</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">P.S. I didn't lie, here's a photo of the car actually <u>IN</u> the garage !!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At long last the shed is finally up, proving once and for all, all good things come to <strike>those who wait</strike>... actually, as my shirt says, to those who work their asses off and never give up! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes it's been a while, <a href="http://www.sunshineandpaintpots.com/2014/07/patience-planning.html" target="_blank">starting way back here</a> on 3 July 2014, dealing with <a href="http://www.sunshineandpaintpots.com/2014/07/renovating-never-dull-moment_27.html" target="_blank">unexpected set backs</a> due to sewer pipes and council building regulations, subsequently learning about the history of the property through the <a href="http://www.sunshineandpaintpots.com/2014/09/searching-council-building-records.html" target="_blank">council building searches</a>, choosing a builder and <a href="http://www.sunshineandpaintpots.com/2014/11/building-shed-update-1.html" target="_blank">signing contracts</a>, before finally seeing some progress with the <a href="http://www.sunshineandpaintpots.com/2014/12/building-shed-update-2.html" target="_blank">form-work</a> done for the slab to be laid. So without further ado, see the shed evolve through the photo essay below...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A big thanks to Trevor from <a href="http://www.mcsheds.com.au/" target="_blank">McSheds</a> and Cameron from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Gunconstructionsausptyltd" target="_blank">Gun Constructions</a> for getting the shed delivered and constructed by Xmas. I can honestly say that while we were limited to a 3m x 4m shed due to the council building regulations Trevor and Cameron ensured we got value for money. Best of all they took care of all the non-construction related aspects for us as well from design, to council approval, to final building certification. Last but not least, a big thanks to Kate for coordinating everything as resident on-site construction manager, so that the only thing I needed to do was pick out shed colours one lunchtime (thanks babe x).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">PS. In lieu of a topping out ceremony yours truly celebrated this building completion with one of James Boag's finest :-)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes it feels like you're getting nowhere fast when renovating... and then it all starts to come together at the same time. This week we've had a new pool pump installed, new LED lights installed in three of the four bedrooms, two new Solarstar roof vents have been installed, the new hot water system has been installed, and we even managed to find some replacement floor tiles for the laundry (now that is a story that deserves its own blog post in due course as we progress through the laundry renovation). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even better, I managed to score two slabs this week, both of which managed to put a smile on my dial :-) The first slab was a reward for taking the old hot water system and copper piping to the metal merchant, who gave me enough gold coins to stop in at the Bottle'O on the way home and grab a slab of XXXX Summer Lager - who says renovating is not without its rewards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But even better than that, was finding out on Friday arvo that a second slab was only a few days away, with the form work for the shed's slab to go down on Monday, with the concrete to be laid Tuesday. How very cool to come home today and see the slab for the shed ready for a pour tomorrow... sweeeeet!!</span></div>
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Kate and Colhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06030828314929884759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155360245421829466.post-40286694584333010712014-11-19T06:41:00.000+10:002014-11-19T06:41:10.588+10:00Gutting The Laundry...<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This post could also be titled 'Why you don't have chipboard cupboards in a wet area' for reasons obvious to most but oblivious to some.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For those who read the blog regularly, you would know that recently we commenced gutting the laundry in preparation for a new fit-out, as the location of the laundry wasn't going to change regardless of any master plan for the renovation. We also knew it would come with some unique challenges, as the tiles around the hot water system cabinet were laid after the hot water system was installed, and with no spare tiles located anywhere in the house disguising this oversight would prove difficult. The chipboard cupboards are an blatant no-no in a wet area, and these had swelled and expanded over time due to a leak from the bathroom (which was an immediate fix required before moving in). And the final challenge we face is that the laundry door to outside is off centre (a gap of 500mm from door to wall), meaning that any cupboard and bench fit out would need to be custom made rather than the DIY flat-pack route we planned to take ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Note the protective duvet cover over the new Bosch washer-dryer, which was meant to be installed after the renovation, however our old top-loader didn't get the memo and gave up the ghost about three months too early - doh!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So there you go, demo 98% complete. This week our Plumber Ray is installing the new energy efficient hot water system (it's new, holds twice as much water, and being modern it is more efficient than the ol' gurgler you see here), relocating it outside, while Kate has the cabinet maker down to do the final measure up for the new fit-out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">PS. As an update on the shed, we received a copy of our builders insurance cover for the project in the mail last week, and we are hoping to hear on the building approval from council this week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This post is a quick down and dirty on where we are at with getting a shed built in time for Xmas. After shopping around to find a shed that meets code for building over or adjacent to sewer lines (<a href="http://www.sunshineandpaintpots.com/2014/09/searching-council-building-records.html" target="_blank">which we wrote about here</a>), we finally settled on a shed using local company <a href="http://www.mcsheds.com.au/" target="_blank">McSheds</a>, who quoted on the following design:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And there you have it - so much work done and we are on track with this and so many other projects, all thanks to Kate and her diligence and persistence in arranging quotes and following up on Tradies. I'll keep you updated on the progress of the shed as it evolves, and Kate will do a post soon on the start of the Laundry renovation, and another on just how complicated arranging window refits can be.</span></div>
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<br />Kate and Colhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06030828314929884759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155360245421829466.post-16397480850967606702014-11-03T21:23:00.001+10:002014-11-03T21:23:16.775+10:00Developing the Renovation Master Plan...<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll be upfront and state openly "I can't believe where the time has gone"! It seems like only yesterday that I wrote a post titled <i><a href="http://www.sunshineandpaintpots.com/2014/07/patience-planning.html" target="_blank">Patience and Planning</a></i>, but in actual fact it was in early July. In that post I wrote about things we were hoping to incorporate into our plan, and how a master plan would allow us to sequence the implementation of them, as we commence the renovation proper. I also wrote two weeks ago about <i><a href="http://www.sunshineandpaintpots.com/2014/10/10-renovation-tasks-to-do.html" target="_blank">10 Renovation Tasks to do Before Xmas</a></i>, in the hope that this would get us back on track.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Translated - What are one's feelings towards my '<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">shaded or graduated in tone' walls, dude</span>?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yeahhhh well, it worked in my head, maybe not on paper. Confused? Read on...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before we moved back to Australia, we had told the girls that this will be our last move (liar liar pants on fire) and they could have their forever bedrooms and a special feature wall colour all of their own choosing. As we all know, that didn't happen in the last house as we kept it all neutral knowing we were going to move '<strong>one</strong> last time'. Fast forward to this house. We stood by our promises and allowed the girls to chose a special colour for their new, REAL, forever bedroom walls. The only rule was that out of the 4 walls, 3 would be white and they could pick the fourth wall colour, as long as it was a nice lively colour - not black or brown. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now I have to digress a little here to explain myself....you may be thinking to yourselves, <em>'surely they didn't need to be told that, as if two little girls would pick brown walls'</em>. And mostly you'd be right but just to show how much we, as parents, influence our youngest here's an entry into Poppy's Yearly Question Book<span style="font-size: xx-small;">**(see ps.)</span> from 2013...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So her favourite colour had evolved from just 'purple' last year to <strong>'purple and brown'</strong> and her career of choice was now <strong>'a wall painter'</strong>. We left the answer as that in her book, but she wasn't done. She went on to say, "...but I wont be painting my peoples houses all this boring white. No, nope, no, I will paint everything brown". Then she started gesturing at walls, "this one BROWN,....that one BROWN". And so on, so do you see now why the caveat was put in place? Ok, goodie...lets continue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So during the start of the bathroom demo (i.e before we lost the toilet), I was spending all week painting the lounge and kitchen walls and at weekends we would occasionally camp out at the house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On one of these camp outs Sasha said to me, 'I've chosen my wall colour'. Yayyy! I was so excited to be able to nip to the paint store and buy some bright pink or lilac or......ombré aqua! Whaaatt??! I assume you will all know what I am talking about as this ombré phase is very popular at the moment, from graduated hair colours to nail varnish and fabrics to cakes, like this one from Sasha's </span><a href="http://www.sunshineandpaintpots.com/2014/09/do-you-wanna-build-snowman.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Frozen party</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So yes, you're hearing this correctly... my 10 year old was asking for an aqua wall going from light aqua at the top all the way through to dark vivid aqua at the bottom. Ha!! I laughed out loud at her suggestion and said 'Honey, there is no way that is happening'. Not because I didn't like the idea, it sounded awesome but I knew there was no way I could achieve it. The blending would need to be seamless to pull it off otherwise it could end up being a 1st class entry to the pinterest fail site, you know, like this sort of thing...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She looked so disappointed when I said no but in true Sasha fashion she tried to hide it and said 'I bet you could do it Mum, but it's fine - just do aqua'. I thought about it some more and decided maybe she was right, maybe I could do it? I could at least try, if I didnt tell the kids and it all went wrong I could just paint over it and be done with it. That week I had bought a different white paint to our usual colour and hated the result. So I had a whole tin of this stuff that we would only ever use as an undercoat, so I went to my paint guys and asked if acrylic paints are the same as the stuff they tint the paint with in store. (Thinking that I could use up my 'mucky' white by mixing it with acrylics and making my own tints of the aqua). It was only a small wall and to buy 3 or 4 shades of each colour just for a tiny wall would end up costing a lot of money and producing a whole heap of wasted paint. The paint specialist said it was basically the exact same stuff as their tints only their stuff was highly concentrated, so essentially a drop to them would be much stronger than a whole spoonful of plain acrylic. I was happy with that, so bought a tube of teal acrylic paint, 3 disposable paint pots and off I went.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unfortunately I don't have any shots of while I was doing this apart from mixing the paints above. Mixing the paints was tricky as you are never quite sure how they will dry and how different they will look on a wall with different and changing lights. But really you just have to go for it, you can always add in some tint as you go if needed. It is a very finicky process, especially up here in the Ville, it is a task that has to be completed in a major hurry as the blending process is key to the whole thing working and you can only blend it well while the paint is wet and it dries pretty darn quick here in the tropical north. I was on my own here the day I did it so I had to work like crazy to get it all on and blended. So the only picture I managed to take was when I had marked up the wall...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I basically started with white at the very top and then gradually added the lightest aqua in the first section, continued on into the middle then added the mid range colour. At that point you blend it together...then you blend again and again and again....over.and.over.and.over!! Until you think you can't blend them anymore...but you do it all again just to be sure. I was working with about 6 paintbrushes throughout the whole job. Then the same goes for the next section. The process is actually super, <strong>SUPER</strong> easy it just takes a bit of patience and a whole lot of elbow grease. It was really hard to get a decent photo of the wall, (you were probably expecting a super cool Canon shot - sorry) all I have is this camera phone picture but it shows the graduation without any furniture in the frame so I hope it gives you a good idea. The carpet guys were coming a few days after completing this, hence why in this picture you can see our lovely new mink carpets, not those smelly old yellow ones anymore hoorar! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Poppy's didn't turn out as well as Sasha's because I started it a bit too light at the very top. It still looks great and I loved it even more when the carpets were installed, but it is definitely too light. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But this no longer really matters because...here comes the obligatory Kate face palm....I am doing it all over again....wait, what!??? Yup. Once we were all moved in we realised that no matter how much I wanted the bedrooms set out in the way I had done it, i.e - the bed going along the back wall rather than going along the 'feature' window wall, it just doesn't work. These rooms are very narrow as we have previously mentioned and no matter how we set the rooms out, the only way they really work, in terms of allowing enough space and not looking over cluttered, is to have the bed running along these walls... covering the lower part of all my lovely hard work. It is such a shame, but it is easily fixed. When I have time I shall repaint these walls white and re-produce the same effect on the back wall. Or I may even go across ways instead of top to bottom to counter any furniture covering it up, that way you will always see the graduation. Anyway until that happens the rooms still look fab either way and it was great fun to do, it looks awesome and the girls, especially Sasha, love it. When I mentioned it to Maddi (House Rules) way back when we interviewed her for the blog she said, 'Damn I wish I had known that before I went on House Rules I so would have used it' </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Darn it I could have sat there at my telly shouting...'Yayyyy Go Maddi - that's our Sasha's idea!' </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">As always, thanks for reading!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;">K</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Ps - Col asked me to include a few lines on Poppy's Yearly Question Book as he said no one will have a clue what I am talking about. We have a special book that we write in every year. We start with a photo of her and her age, then ask her the same series of 6 questions; where do you live, favourite colour, favourite food, favourite TV show, her best friend's name and what she wants to be when she is older. Then there is a page for a drawing, a page for some writing, and a page for us to jot down her favourite activities. It's a lovely way to keep track of changing ideas and dreams but also a great keepsake for her to have when she is older. The front of the book is just the most perfect quote too...</span></div>
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