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 [...]

I have set myself my first little furniture sanding/restoring project of sanding down the pair of wood framed chairs we bought a few months ago and re-upholstering them.  We got them for $20 each down at the local second-hand furniture store.  This is what they look like:

The wood frame consists of the legs and the arm rests which [...]

Last weekend we started to remove the horrible wallpaper from our walls. It’s a really tough physical job. I kind of thought that it would be that we would just put the steamer on the wall, run it down the panel of wallpaper and the paper would peel off in one big sheet. To my [...]