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WINDOWS - WINDOWS - WINDOWS!!!
This circa 1860 cottage still has its original Victorian windows. Having spent many months going down the impossible task pursuing...
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Rosalie
May 21, 20212 min read
NOW THE STREETSCAPE
Really hope you all remember how the front of the house once looked — actually you couldn't see it at all from the street. This link is a...
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Rosalie
Apr 28, 20211 min read
CHAIR RESTORATION
Lots of people have enquired about our black and white directors chairs, so I thought I would share their story. These chairs started...
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Rosalie
Apr 23, 20211 min read
ALFRESCO DETAILS
The Alfresco has been a process that has taken a few stages to transform it into its present state. You will have noticed one of those...
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Rosalie
Sep 20, 20201 min read
ALL AUSTRALIAN BOYS NEED A SHED
This rustic old shed 'Fiddle Leaf Barn' has been an ongoing saga and as you have seen in previous Blog posts, we have repaired it,...
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Rosalie
Sep 18, 20201 min read
ONE YEAR ON — LET'S CELEBRATE
One year on and we are feeling a reasonable sense of accomplishment. To be super precise, it is just one year since we acquired the house...
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Rosalie
Sep 2, 20201 min read
PLUMBER, TILER & BATHROOM BITS
It becomes pretty exciting when you start to see your vision become a reality. We have been chipping away at the wet areas for a while...
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Rosalie
Aug 4, 20201 min read
PICCOLO PAD
Piccolo Rose had been having a little stay in a neighboring property until we made a home for her in our own back yard. We decided that...
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Rosalie
Jul 23, 20201 min read
A SWING... OR A SWING WITH FLAIR
Our Flame Tree cried out to have a swing hung from its branches. Right from the beginning we had pictured this happening one day and...
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Rosalie
Jul 22, 20201 min read
STREETSCAPE & BEYOND
The lovely new picket fence looked rather lonely without some foliage gracing its presence, it was now time to add some gardens to catch...
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Rosalie
Jul 2, 20203 min read
FIDDLE LEAF BARN - AGAIN...
Always been part of the plan to restore this 'OLD' gem. Cute, rustic, historic but positively useless! Leaked like a sieve and almost...
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Rosalie
May 27, 20201 min read
SIMULTANEOUS HAPPENINGS
Nothing about our Reno is random even if it may appear that way. During this period there seemed to be all sorts of projects running...
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Rosalie
May 14, 20203 min read
YES — A WHITE PICKET FENCE
A few months ago as Carl was having yet another one of his surgeries, I found myself cruising the internet, as you do! I felt super...
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Rosalie
Apr 23, 20204 min read
MY HEART'S PRAYER
This Blog entry is to share the progress on our little cottage, but even more than that, it's to share the most amazing answer to prayer...
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Rosalie
Mar 25, 20201 min read
ENJOYING THE FRUITS OF OUR LABOUR
After the transformation of the back yard and all the work involved to get it to this point, there is nothing more satisfying than...
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Rosalie
Feb 27, 20201 min read
LONGING FOR COMFORT
It's going to be some time before we are fully set up in our new/old cottage and there is only so long you can cope to sit on camp chairs...
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Rosalie
Feb 24, 20202 min read
ROMANCE IN THE BEDROOM
Well actually the bedroom was entirely void of romance. Just disgusting filth that had accumulated over decades. You MUST be sure to...
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Rosalie
Dec 17, 20191 min read
A SHED TREASURE
Before we bought the cottage, on one of our inspections, I noticed an old workbench buried amongst the debris in the shed and asked the...
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Rosalie
Dec 15, 20192 min read
CHAOS TO QUAINT
When we checked out this property before we bought it, we had to look hard to even see that there was a shed behind all the rubbish...
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