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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!

Monday, 24 September 2012

Demo #2 begins



Well, after a week of disappointment waiting for the builders to start the demolition of the upstairs, we finally came home to some destruction. Of course, it has to come on the day that I'm leaving to fly back to Houston. Electrical "cut & seal" always comes before the mass destruction, so I wasn't expecting too much to have happened, but oh was I wrong!
Our quirky living room ceiling was gone, and there were electrician guys running around everywhere chasing lines and checking outlets...it is kind of exciting!




They finished bricking up the entrance into the laundry room as well
So this is the resulting bedroom on the other side of the laundry entrance...the space for the closet being directly in the centre.
This is the copper tubing that was running in the roof cavity for our old air conditioning unit...the technician that removed the unit said we should try and salvage it because copper costs like $50 per linear meter...I would guess we might have saved $600 or more there! :)
So, with the electrical cut & seal complete, we are able to get some real work done...
Scaffolding up around the house in preparation for destruction!

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