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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!

Saturday, 23 March 2013

23 March Update

Less than 1 week until Easter holidays and to our agreed deadline with Summit...and we're still not quite there yet...to say there's a little stress is an understatement! I am sick and tired of living in a dust pit of a work zone! I think I need a vacation from my life! :)
I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, though...at least for the Summit scope...until the house is completely finished...now that's another story!
In the past week, the only progress they've made on the hole in our wall is to make a bigger mess to cut it even higher and put in a lintel...to say I was a bit disappointed is an understatement!
The lintel I've waited a week for...and the vacuum cleaner that crapped out and overheated because of all the dust it had to vacuum up!
Can you see the progress here? Notice that the shelves are empty because I've actually started moving into the kitchen...almost 4 months after it was installed!
The pile of boxes is the wrapping for my new cookware...it was like Christmas today!
Bedroom furniture for one set of parents...check!
The bathroom doors have moved from nasty scraped paint to 2 coats of gloss...not a good paint job, but good enough!
The gyprockers have finished around the staircase...I'm quite happy with that.
Downstairs bathroom complete & cleaned (by the Summit cleaners anyways), but still has to be painted.
Toilet complete and cleaned...just needs some major paint work!
And my kitchen with drawers and pantry filled...what a wonderful feeling!

1 comment:

  1. I'm guessing that you're absolutely busy right now, but I do hope you keep us posted. I'm so excited on how your house looks right now. Reading your story really amuses me!
    - Kayce Church

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