Nat here. The tenants have vacated and the reno's have begun! After watching The Block tonight, we are rearing to get started. Seriously though, the reserves were far too low?! And why were they accepting ridiculous bids from the guy with the shirt whose company will remain anonymous on this blog as I'm convinced he was purchasing advertising space?!! Anyway....back on the real project, where tradespeople must be paid and budgets are real, the paint has been picked and the work begins this week, husband and his Dad even started the fence today.
We think the deck will be a feature..
What are your thoughts on doors? I've read that they are one of the first things a buyer looks at. It turns out doors are expensive, I know, who would have thought? I think we need a new one?
The front garden is in a dire situation, we are hoping to plant lavender, I hope it works...
Curtains take 4 weeks, again - who thought?! So we are going to need to go down the track of roller blinds or venetians, we think white venetians throughout will be just as nice as curtains?
I had lunch at Vappiano's with the lovely B family today, it was yum
And although I had to work on a weekend, we had a rather cute supervisor on hand for assistance with our EOFYS workload...
Had breakfast at Verve again on the weekend, when you are on to a good thing - stick to it!
an actual bedroom, the cost is affordable (nearly the same price as a new front door - do I need to say and who would have thought?!). It will then have 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom. Do we convert it into a bedroom to make it 3 or leave it as 2 bedrooms with a space for someone to do as they please later? I have a heap more "before" photos to show you later!
Finally, this was me on Friday night....
Not sure whether you can see but it is a review of Katrina's cookbook, just in the little, (overseas!) Cuisine magazine, woohoo for you Katrina! I quote, "the recipes are for the most part simple to prepare, gutsy in flavour and show plenty of flair", oh and my favourite part, "Meynink is a smart and sassy writer and her humorous anecdotes make for entertaining reading". I'm sure you have already bought a copy, but if that doesn't convince you to buy another for everyone you know I don't know what will!
Nat could you paint the door a bright colour and add new hardware? What is the front room currently? 3 bedrooms is a selling point but not at the expense of a decent sized living area in my opinion. You will work wonders on the garden I'm sure - the whole place has such potential! It looks great as is. Food looks delish as usual.... The block reserves were low, but the Melb market has been weird lately.....I guess they didn't want a repeat of last year?
ReplyDeleteThat might be an option Loz, I noticed all the bright doors on The Block last night! The front room is currently a sleep-out so we're not taking away from living - completely agree with you on keeping every millimetre of that! Although in saying that we are taking a few cm's off the lounge to make the bathroom a real bathroom (currently it is a shower and toilet in an old linen cupboard - the space is laughable!).
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