I believe this has been two years in the making and I knew I’d buckle down sooner or later and get this online portfolio sorted et voilà, here it is! But I’m not complaining – the reasons for the delay have been plenty; from freelance…
WE decided it was high time we put some plants into the backyard in time for spring so that the roots could take and the plants wouldn’t struggle as much come summer. Also, we needed to mark out the garden beds before the lawn was…
THANKS to good ol’ Gumtree, Brendan scored big time. I’ve been promising him a shed for a while now, but I didn’t fancy spending $800 when I can’t even afford to buy a new bed for the bedroom (the one we’re on has been repaired…
THE day after Brendan finished paving the outside of the laundry area, we were eager to get the planter box in the garden going. Our garden has gone through various plans, all not necessarily to scale but with some idea of what and where we…
IT’S been a week since I last sat down to try and put pen to paper about the house — but my reluctance stems not only from my lack of consistent photographic documentation of our progress, but laziness in general. I keep forgetting to pick…
IT’S always nice when friends come to visit, but it’s quite silly of me not to take photos of them! Mark comes by almost every week, and last week we welcomed Collette over for a couple of hours so she could see the house. She…
LIKE any good girlfriend, I made sure Brendan had something to come home to on his birthday. Something half decent, at least. It didn’t help that I was sick as a dog AND had to look after the new puppy we just picked up, but…
IN our last post, Brendan was texturing our feature wall in anticipation of the flooring going down. See how proud he is here? Unfortunately, when the flooring installers came along, they warned us that a couple of areas of our slab needed to be levelled…
More photos, from weeks two and three in the house. Remember to leave us your comments 🙂 [nggallery id=2]
WE barely have the time to think, let alone develop coherence for 10 minutes to put together a decent blog post so we’re leaving you all with regular galleries of our progress for the time being. We hope you enjoy looking at them nevertheless! X…