Going back to this post, I received my cheque from the insurance company, so we took a trip to Bunnings and spent $1,200 on materials to build a timber privacy screen in place of the old greenhouse windows that were previously dividing off the back courtyard area from the main garden. 
We bought 8 steel posts, 46 lengths of thin [...]

It’s finished! The shed is finally off the ground and in its home on top of the slab.

Built in only two days, here is what it looked like after they left on the first day:

The outside looks a little bit like a temporary builder’s cabin and desperately needs softening up with a stack of plants, but [...]

Well, a month later and I am still without a shed. Hopefully next Tuesday the installers will come and start putting it up. Apparently they’ve been really busy. Maybe by Friday a huge shed might be standing in our backyard waiting to be filled with stuff.
What’s been happening the last 4 weeks? Well, after we [...]

Ding dong! The witch is dead!

With a lot of help from our neighbour (he owns a very powerful chainsaw), we spent 3 big days over the Easter long weekend working on demolishing the shed and it’s now in pieces in a big pile waiting to be cut into firewood for burning in our heater this winter. [...]

We have finally moved our computers out of the lounge room and into our super brand new study!

I’m so proud of the effort that we put into this room.  It’s the first complete room that we have done so far in this renovation project.
We hired a builder to put in a few new walls for [...]

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 [...]

I also bought this painting, not sure if it’s going to go in the house or in the shed:

Today we had our long-awaited wood heater delivered. It’s an Ultimate wood heater and heats up to 240 square metres. We figured we needed a super large heater to heat the house as the ceilings are 2.7/2.8 metres high and it gets freezing in here in winter (so cold that when you walk through the hallway [...]