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Still Renovating

Posted on July 21, 2014 10 Comments

Still Renovating - a story of never ending renovations and why I am happy about it... mostly.

“Oh you are renovating… still” She said as she arrived, unannounced. She hadn’t gotten any further than our front steps, but the drop-saw, the pile of wood, the bucket of electrical wires and the cans of paint that ‘decorate’ our front veranda gave us away. “Yes, we are renovating… still.” “When will it be finished?” […]

What To Do With a Big Empty Wall?

Posted on July 8, 2013 30 Comments

What to do with a big empty wall?

We have this wall… It is a big, empty wall. It’s a big, empty wall that will never have much in the way of furniture in front of it, and it looks kinda of bare. But what do I do with my big, empty, kind of bare, wall? Do I hang three huge canvases? Could […]

Help Me With Fireplace Ideas

Posted on May 13, 2013 6 Comments

Help! What should our fireplace surround and mantel look like and how do I style it??

You know those ‘never ending renovations’ I used to bang on about? Well they are still going, they are just at a somewhat less interesting and exciting stage at the moment so I’ve not bothered to bore you all with them… until today. Today I need your help. I need your ideas and inspiration and […]

Real Life Wednesday – Reasons My House Will Never be in Home Beautiful Magazine

Posted on April 17, 2013 5 Comments

Real Life Wednesday - Why my house will never be in Home Beautiful Magazine

I used to read Home Beautiful magazine and hope that one day I would have a house like the ones on those glossy pages. It’s only quite recently that I’ve wised up and realised that a house that is livable and lived in is what I really want, not a perfectly beautiful home. But that […]

So Close To a Kitchen.

Posted on October 29, 2012 5 Comments

kitchen

“What are you doing???” He’d sprung me standing in the new part of the house, alone, in the semi darkness, staring at our almost finished kitchen. “I’m just imagining… ” We are so close to having a finished kitchen…It may not look it from the photos but we are so very close. We are just […]

Real Life Wednesday – The Best Laid Plans

Posted on October 3, 2012 11 Comments

garden

We had plans. We also had contingency plans. We didn’t have plans for when our contingency plans went to hell in a hand basket. But that’s life I guess. People get held up, things take longer, tradesmen never arrive… plans have to be changed, again. I admit I’ve had my moments of being super pissed […]

Real Life Wednesday – Living in Renovation Chaos

Posted on September 26, 2012 7 Comments

no door

This is what life looks like around here right now… total and utter renovation chaos! This is where our kitchen door used to be… This is our makeshift hallway kitchen. No water but at least I have an oven, well as long as I don’t turn on a hot plate at the same time! This […]

Kitchen Renovation Dilemmas

Posted on August 13, 2012 43 Comments

kitchen design

Help! We need to order our new kitchen cabinets so that my current wall-less, ceiling-less remnant of a kitchen can be ripped out and replaced with a shiny new kitchen, with shiny new appliances that actually work. It would be exciting if it wasn’t so damn difficult to make a decisions about something that costs […]

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