Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Before and After, keeping clean!!

The way we were!!
Our finished guest bathroom. The floor tiles are a nice light chocolately brown. The shower curtain is only a temporary one - not classy but hey, it cost $10.
The feature strip tiles are glass, greeny toned with a nice classic pattern. A nice compromise from my first choice tiles (very expensive, see earlier post!).

More little things that mean a lot

The mud bowl out the back. One day this will be a basketball ring area.
My beautiful 320 litre hot water service!! We have this pump thing that continually circulates the hot water through the pipes so that when you turn on a tap, the hot water is there straight away. It uses a tiny bit of electricity but it saves litres of water that is wasted while you wait for the hot to come. Great when you're on tank water.
Our front garden area.
My new vegie patches. I have planted broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, brown onions, red cabbage, cos lettuce and italian parsely. I hope they do well. The top picture bed doesn't get as much full sun and the one below so it will be interesting to see if they differ.

I'm not an expert gardener at all but I love the idea of home grown stuff. I also really want to get some chookens!!

Latest jobs done

Darren has been busy doing lots of "little" things around the place while we wait for the kitchen and stair materials. Above are the lovely handrails upstairs.
This is my dishwasher. I just had to put in a pic coz I love it so much! I've even found a phosphate free dishwasher powder so our worms are happy.
Darren had a vision for our outdoor entertaining area to have some interesting feature bits. He's going to render all this blue board and then paint it in a plummy colour. This little servery bit is in front of the kitchen sink. It will be for passing out stuff but also looks a bit like a bar area, I can imagine people sitting at stools here chatting to me while I'm inside.
Another view of the bar area.
This is where the BBQ will reside. Daz has built a little shelf to the left. The deck will eventually extend out to the left of this picture, over the ferns.


Friday, April 10, 2009

Update

No photos today, just an update. We finally have a bathroom operating. The gas was connected last Tuesday and then the hot water service. It was a big job running the gas line up to the house in all the rain. Lots of mud!! Still, we got hot water, Yay!!! Now the guest bathroom is tiled, shower head installed and we no longer have to travel to wash. It is very exciting!! We haven't had a bathtub in our house for the last 3 years so the kids are loving the bath. We have also installed our dishwasher. I was definately getting sick of handwashing. It's in the laundry at present, where we have set up a temporary kitchen. We'll move it when the kitchen comes.
The cabinets are ordered so could arrive next week. All I need now is my washing machine and dryer and a clothes line and we will be fully independant!