The mess in the backyard...

This was our storm water pipe! It's been replaced now :)

View from the deck looking back to the street along the laundry side.

Paint.

It's getting a bit tedious and our arms are sore, but we're getting through it alright!


The colour we have chosen for the kitchen/family area is called banana custard.


Next job on the list is for the kitchen, pantry and laundry cabinets to be joined together and drawers assembled. I'm both excited and daunted at the thought :)

The floor is "finished"!

I say "finished" because it might get another light sand and another coat of sealer. We still have to put resin in some of the bigger knot holes too but that has been left until the painting and skirt and architraves are done just in case we damage it.


We are VERY happy with how it turned out. Yes it's a tad rough in places. The boards have machine marks and are uneven in places, but it is exactly what we wanted. The variation in the colour ranges from walnut to red so all we did was put a water based clear sealer over them and let the character of the timber speak for itself :)

In other news, we have ordered tiles and begun painting!

Assembling bonanza!

I got stuck into assembling our cabinets! We put the legs on one so we could see the heights on the wall (in the kitchen and the laundry) which makes it easier to get a feel for how it will look. I had already marked them on from the measurements but it didn't seem right...but it was :)
They are all stacked up in a bedroom for now until we seal the floor and get a bit of paint on the walls.

Verandah love!

And there it is with the iron on. I love it!
Now I just need to decide on what type of decoration on the corners of the posts :)

But why would you want to do that for?

He didn't want to because it was "a pain in the #%@*@#* arse having to cut all those boards" but I insisted and he did it for me :)

Can you guess what the horizontal board along the passage way is for?


By the way, Trev has now completed the passage and has started in the back living room area. It looks so good!

Got started on the laundry! Yay!

OK so I've only done 2 cabinets at this point, but I have to say it's not really that difficult putting them together :)
The high cabinet is MASSIVE and BLOODY HEAVY! I couldn't move it on my own at all. In the box I couldn't budge it, and assembled I could kinda shuffle it about on the floor but there was no way I could have stood it up on my own.

At this point the plan is to get the laundry put together and ready for tiling!