General update just to show some of the progression of the prep in the lounge/kitchen/dining area. We have both been working pretty hard on this area as living in the back half of the house, while not terrible, is a bit frustrating. We also still have most of our crap in storage as we don't... Continue Reading →

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Just a quick update, a few shots of the carpet going in. Truth is I forgot to take more pictures of the finished rooms before I started moving a bunch of stuff into them! bummer. You get the gist though. Roxy was keeping me company today.. Have put down some temporary carpet in the hall... Continue Reading →

The fun part, skirting boards and architrave... so much satisfaction in this job! Carpet has been ordered and is scheduled for install in a week. Gotta head to Wagga for Dads B'day so better get stuck into it! Start with the painting... Then setup for the measure, measure, cut... The your good to go... Before:... Continue Reading →

Well, finally time to tackle the lounge room floor... not going to be a pleasant job, but a necessary evil unfortunately. You see, when some guy was drunk when he originally poured the slab for the lougroom floor... and there is now about a 45mm high mountain in the middle of the room. This is... Continue Reading →

Time for more new windows and doors to go in.. or more importantly (or more fun), the old ones need to come out! So this took a few days to get through, but I'm wrapping all of the picks into a single post. After much wrangling and "Cavity adjustments".... the new glass is in... Well... Continue Reading →

Thanks to Johnny for helping with the work on the ceilings today... wish I had of taken a photo of the car with the 5.2m sheets on the roof... that was an interesting trip from Castle Hill to Galston! Only some top coat plaster and a little more cornice to go in the dining/lounge!

Time to get back to the plaster!

So final steps taken yesterday and today to finish the concrete floor off, and a big relief that it looks like we had planned. Yesterday they did the final polish of the concrete to get it to its final state. I was pretty happy with how that looked as it was, but the guys told... Continue Reading →

New robes installed into the Kids rooms and the spare room... only skirt/arch and carpet to go in those rooms. Some photos are panorama, no, the robes aren't curved!

So the floor has set, and now its time to grind away the top layer of concrete to reveal the beautiful aggregate hiding bellow the surface.. As you can see, the floor looks pretty ordinary before the work starts.. But bring in this big dog, and it won't be like it for long.. After the... Continue Reading →

Well, been a few of weeks of nothing while we waited for the floor to arrive from the US.. but it has finally arrived, and its time to pour! Was a busy day today as the doors and windows arrived for the living room, dining room, kitchen, hall, study and master bed... more to come... Continue Reading →

So Marika took a trip to Adelaide to chill with Carla... Meanwhile, back in Glenorie, the remaining Powells were all crook as... Both ends...

Just a quick update on the beam in the kitchen... Ready for final finishing. Rendered walls looking good. Still need to be sanded back before painting.

Well it's been a long time coming, but we are finally ready to start the floors of the main areas of the house. Prep started a week ago which simply put, involves some seriously big concrete grinders being run across the existing slab to level it out. This was followed by floor leveler, edge preparation,... Continue Reading →

Not much to say here.... But haven't seen this type of morning here before today... Magic.

This is the beast that has been ferrying me and all my crap from Bunnings, CSR, Sydney Tools, Galston Landscape Supplies and everywhere else I seem to end up to fix something I have destroyed at Karalee... It drinks more than Nick and Duncan on a bucks weekend, but has been my faithful buddy for... Continue Reading →

In between the other big chunks of work on the go, I've been continuing on with some of the other bit an pieces that need to be completed to finish off the plaster work. I've been working on the bulkhead that is covering the beam that was put in the kitchen when the wall was... Continue Reading →