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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!

Sunday, 5 January 2014

New Year Update - 5th Jan

It's hard to believe we're already in 2014! Looking back at old photos the other day, it's even harder to believe that we've already lived in this house for 2-1/2 years!
Enough on the reminiscing, though. Andy has been super busy lately working on the back garden. Unfortunately, I've been quite bad about taken progress photos over the past month, but there's been quite a change!
Andy and Rob, our gardening expert, laid new turf just before Christmas, which is still looking green and lush! They also built the curved wall at the back of the grass lawn, to separate our nice garden area from the driveway.

Andy and Rob finished the paving around the pool where they had been working on the deck. Andy then cleaned and sealed all of the pavers, which then resulted in a week of cleaning the pool to get it back to the nice blue colour you see here...so inviting now!

Just a ground level view of the garden...


And looking back towards the house...it's really coming together now!

The next jobs on the list are to get the pool fence installed and to get our friend back in to render the new part of the wall. Meanwhile, we'll start shopping for plants to fill the garden beds!

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