Well it’s been a couple of months in the making but we’re almost there with the laundry. Here’s what’s been done up until now:

Fixed up the rotting window. Removed the tiles. Installed new cement sheet tile underlay. Installed cement sheeting on one of the walls. Removed the old toilet and replaced with a new toilet. Had a plumber come and move the position of the old taps. Removed the bottom half of the masonite walls and replaced them with dado boards (wood panels which match with other areas in our house). Installed wood trim at the top of the dado boards.

Over the course of last week I painted the dado boards, the wood trim and the walls. Look at it - all fresh and nice:

On a recent trip to Sydney we went to Ikea to get some bathroom accessories and the other day Tim installed a new Grundtal toilet roll holder and a Grundtal shelf above the toilet to hold things like rolls of toilet paper and air fresheners and I might put a little plant up on the shelf at some stage.

Tiling hasn't yet been done around the toilet

Today Tim started laying the tiles. Here he is gettin’ jggy wid it :)

I got the tiles from a place in Sydney (Classic Tiles). It turns out cheaper to buy them from Sydney and have them transported down to Tassie than it is to buy them in Tasmania. As you can see, the tile is a sort of hexagon shape which reminds me of honeycomb, which is fitting considering that we are going to start bee-keeping in the summer*.

All nicey nicey

Now all that’s left to do is: finish the hexagon floor tiling (Tim is about a third of the way through), tile the window wall (shown below in its curent cement sheet state), re-install the laundry tub, buy a new clothes dryer and a new washing machine, vent the dryer outside and move my Ikea storage system from its current temporary spot in the sunroom to in here so that we can finally have a proper place to store all our towels and bed sheets.

* Just kidding about the bee-keeping.

Well, Tim has installed a new toilet, a plumber has come in to move the taps in the laundry so that our laundry tub can now be flush against the wall in the corner of the room and Tim has removed part of the masonite panels and installed some of the dado boards.

This is the air compressor that we bought that Tim is using for the staple gun to staple the dado boards into the wall:

Here is a small panel of wall with some of the insulation in it:

And here is a photo of the completed panel with the dado boards installed:

The toilet has also had the masonite removed and dado boards installed, so we’re now about a quarter of the way through the dado board installation. After the dado boards have been installed then we need to cut cement sheeting to size and lay it on the floor boards then we can tile.

It’s been a while since I’ve been on etsy to have a look around. I finally purchased my dilkabear prints. Woohoo! Now I just need a place to put them – maybe in the hallway when the new picture rail goes up?

And I found these bits and pieces:

Apple Green and Blueberry Laced Guillerminas from Lepiedleger

This sweet hat by iperandpaisley (though I’m not really a hat wearer):

And this cute ring and matching pendant from Marleyjanedotcom:

Here are the first artichokes from the artichoke plant that I grew from seed. Unbelieveable that these monsters grew from something smaller than the size of a finger nail! Tonight we’re having roasted artichokes and pork :) .

We did away with the river pebbles that the previous owners put down. Although it looked okay, it was too difficult to walk on and wasn’t very practical (you couldn’t put the BBQ there or put a table there if you wanted to).

Tim expertly built 3 planter boxes to go around the outside of the area, this big long one is 5 metres long:

Then when the planters were in place, it was time to lay some turf. One thing you shouldn’t try at home is to lay turf after 4 days of rain.

Hmm yes this probably wasn’t the most ideal day to be laying turf. I ended up covered in it:

Here’s the end result: