Welcome

Welcome to our blog! We've just bought a house in the suburbs of Perth, West Australia. It was originally built in the early 1960s, and there have been lots of additions and renovations over the years, although not all of them were done well.
Over the next weeks, months, and years, we're planning to slowly but surely turn this old house into our dream home! We've started this blog as a place to document all of the changes as they happen...kind of like a scrap book! We hope you enjoy!

Sunday, 4 September 2011

3 weeks in...

Well, we've now been in the house for 3 full weeks...and we've just now got the internet connected! Amazingly, we had almost all of the boxes unpacked the first weekend! 
So, over the past 3 weeks, we've been mostly working on the garden, which I must say could be a full time job if we let it be! Yesterday, I spent 3 hours trimming the trees along the driveway, and I swear you can't even tell a difference! We've filled our trailer to the brim with green waste to take to the recycling centre, and we've bought and filled a compost bin so that we can make use of this green waste in the future. We cleaned out the veggie patch area in the back of the lot last weekend...see the before and after photos below...
The veggie patch before.
The veggie patch after clearing of weeds!

So, what we've got going on now includes working with Dale Alcock still to try and decide on what we want to do in the way of renovations. We're also getting quotes to get the asbestos garage removed and replaced. Since it's nearly summer, we're also just trying to get the pool area ready...we need pool furniture, and we want to get a pool blanket.
It's definitely a big change from Galwey Street, but we're enjoying it so far! Hopefully we'll have some exciting stuff going on over the next couple weeks to update everyone about. Until then...

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