Before/After - Kitchen

 

Hallway advertising

Gaz has been harping on at me for ages to put one on my lamp designs up and I was protesting because I had an awesome retro wooden fitting in its place. He conveniently batted it off the suspension with a piece of 4x2 and claimed it was an accident. I gave up and so here is our hallway looking rather fancy with polished floors, fresh white ceilings and one of my lamps.

Hot water cupboards return

Have had no cupboard doors on our hot water cupboard for, I dunno, a year? This was originally in an effort to get rid of the salmon coloured paint, but because of the effort involved (stripping back to bare wood to start again!) I kinda gave up for a while. Now we are in a crazy hurry to finish all the things we started and gave up on and this is one done! Boom white doors - look good!

Hob prob solved

Due to certain hubby hob purchasing and lack of measuring and considerable 'she'll be right' attitude... Our hob has never fit the bench cutout!

With a quick measure up and a drawing I whipped up, Gaz sent off a template to awesome steel cutty guy and problem solved!

See the stainless plate? That looks standard right? Whoop no more hole!!!

Porch light

New light installed on new porch paint work. Even goes (thanks Allan!). Looks great for 20 bux. Bargain dad, bargaaaiiinnn.

OoooOoH look what I just arrived home to...

Had 3 days of camping at belly and duncys and It was only slightly painful chasing a child round an un-childproof house the entire time. Super grateful they took us in though.. not many people are that silly! Stocked to be home and weeeeee pretty floors!!!

Oh so edgy

Garden borders in. Had mum and daughter time in the garden today cutting wood to size, digging out channel and filling in the new garden edge. Looks amazing compared with the old rotten pieces of untreated Rimu I had lying in vaguely the right places....

Pretty cool steps dad

Love Paige

Lookn good Gaz

Steps are taking shape. Just the side steps around the corner to go.

The world is happening.

Well steps are happening. You wouldn't think it. We survived almost a year jumping of a 600mm deck with no help. Problem is we have a small person who also thinks its cool to jump off. So steps are now required. Foundations in place and things are happening fast, very fast!

Progress on the gable ends

Having to strip off flakey paint, remove rot, replace with new timber, re-mortar holes, seal cracks and finally paint... So it has not been the smallest job. Getting there though... Two painted and finished and 3 to go.

Porch floor is dry & Paige approves

Played porch this weekend

Last week I water blasted the crap out of our flakey porch. This weekend I scraped my heart out... Gaz did too. Once all the paint (and i mean all 10,000 layers) had been stripped back we sealed em up with an undercoat. We also prepped the concrete steps and Gaz used some fancy schmancy grey industrial floor paint to match the concrete and should last plenty of stomps. Good effort... Shits happening!

Porch time...

That's pretty much our whole porch in my hair. I water blasted the crap out of it ready for paint...

Scrubba dub dub

We just bought a new laundry tub to go with my new front loader :)

The old tub was old and flakey, but not entirely the only reason for the the upgrade...

So we did have a top loader until I harped on enough at gaz to buy me a new front loader. All the cool kids have them and so he was convinced. Until we got home and hadn't considered the left opening door was going to mean we couldn't use our bifold doors any longer. I was definitely not going to ditch my new machine for closed doors so the only next solution was a slim line tub. So $400 later and we have a solution. Whoooop!

Manhole and ceiling = slightly warmer

Yep that would be my new laundry ceiling. Only got finishing motivation after half of winter went by and we got sick of the freezing freeze just helping itself into the house from the ceiling. Whoop one degree warmer.

Whoop one step closer

Gaz whipped out the paint brush and attempted to finish the lounge window sill we started a million years ago.

Black is back

I reframed from using my blackboard paint to do an entire blackboard wall. Gaz wasnt so keen...

Instead I found one of our old kitchen cupboard doors, scraped the hideous salmon coloured paint back and made a nifty old chalk board.

Quite enjoy...

New manhole

Looks swarve! Good hubby... And now for the bats back into place and the jib on! It's freezing!

Ummm I can not multi-task!

This mornings epic baking fail....