Recently, we were driving through Sandy Bay and noticed some chairs thrown next to a skip bin on the side of the road. We turned the car around and had a closer look at the chairs. When we went to ask the owners if we could take them, they asked us if we wanted any [...]

So, whats been happening this past two months? It feels like not much but when I sit down and think about it, really a lot has happened and a lot has been achieved. 
There was Christmas, of course. This was the first Christmas that Tim and I have spent together just the two of us. For [...]

So while our bedroom windows are at a local workshop being stripped of their 70 years of paint and crappy putty job, I’ve been trawling the internet in search of the perfect grey and white coloured wallpaper for the master bedroom.
I am using the same grey paint (Grey Comfort) that I used in the sewing room. [...]

For the last two weeks I’ve been patching holes and cracks and skim coating the walls in the bedroom and hallway. And I’m pretty much over it. And to think there’s another room and a half to go … Thankfully the skim coating on these two walls is done and sanding is complete (except I just [...]

After decorating the first room, the sewing room, I’ve changed the room decorating process slightly.
Wash down walls to remove wallpaper residue (luckily we’d already removed the wallpaper 12 months earlier)
Putty up holes in door frames and doors
Caulk gap between skirting boards and wall
Caulk gap between windows and wall
Fill holes with spackfilla
Tape up large cracks and small [...]