So begins the next phase of the decorating: the bedroom and the hallway.
We’re doing these two rooms together, mainly to save on the cost of hiring the sander but also because I think it’s more efficient to do it that way, not only when it comes to the floors but also when it comes to [...]

As featured on Little Green Notebook, here’s some nice ideas on how to utilise picture rails, followed by a great idea for diy picture rails.

On Friday I received the replacement rolls of wallpaper from Funkis after I sent the original rolls back because they were either damaged or the wrong dye batch.
Unfortunately, we didn’t have much luck with these new rolls either. The first roll we opened had a printing error that ran all the way down one side of the paper [...]

Some time ago, I ordered a Laminex benchtop to be used as an extra long desk in the study. It ocurred to me recently that I haven’t done an update post to show the new benchtop ‘desk’ in action.
My old desk was a faux beech ‘executive’s desk’ from Officeworks. It cost about $310 and I’d had it [...]

After Tim sanded and polished the floor in the sewing room, I got onto repairing the walls to putty up the cracks and to make them all flat and smooth. As I had never done this before, it took me a good 7 or 8 days to complete all 4 walls.
First, I washed down the walls [...]