Well, after 4 days of work, I’ve got the new power points put in, the new ceiling put in, 3 new walls put in and the archway in the front hall removed. This is how it looks at the moment (compared with the before shot):

These are the lights that I have bought to go into the [...]

I was expecting our study to have a new ceiling and new walls last week but we got pushed back because the builder hadn’t finished his previous project.  So then we were expecting work to start yesterday, but that didn’t happen and then today it finally started.  It will be good to have the first [...]

We finally had our wood heater installed the other day.  To my frustration, we still couldn’t use it because we needed a hearth first. When we went to the heater shops, there were pre-made hearths there that you could buy but they were fugly and expensive (from memory, about $320).  So we decided to make [...]

Our furniture and personal belongings arrived from Sydney today.  This truck was 19 metres long. and about 3 metres wide. It only just made it through our front gate.

We saw these old steel-framed apple crates down the road for $25 each, so we decided to buy 6 of them and use them as vegetable gardens.  We ordered a truck-load of soil and a tonne of 20mm stones (for drainage in the bottom of the crate) and last weekend, we loaded the crates up [...]