What a blast, did we have a good time doing the reno's on our own house situated in a green leafy suburb of Brisbane . It was like a dream come true...everything comes up neat and workable at the end of the day. Actually it wasn't a day it was a year. Our home in Sinnamon Park was built eighteen years ago but there were things never completed. Renovating a spacious home of 7 bedrooms and four bathrooms was quite a task, something we quite underestimated time-wise. Nevertheless, despite the time required we feel so inspired by our hard work and the outcomes we achieved. And it was a good chance to look at the accumulated mess we'd collected over the previous 18 years and do a super drive out...so refreshing to let go of the old and be free to move ahead now that the kids have left home and just the two of us eager for retiring and down-sizing to a small house.
We began with the painting. It is such a large house that we chose to spray paint in preference to hanging on to the end of a roller! The masking time took longer but hey! it only took fifteen minutes to paint a room including the ceiling. And the effect was smooth and so professional-looking. Including full-time work we managed to paint our home in under than three weeks overall. Then we replaced all the light fittings and the ceiling fans. In a 7 bedroom house this meant seven fans! Then came the four bathrooms...cleaning out all the grouting cost us some skin off our fingers! Regrouting, exchanging the taps and new shower screens came next and the result was great...it made our bathrooms look like new!
Then we began on all the broadband wiring... we'd loose ends all around the floors as we had broadband connected to five of the 7 bedrooms. We pulled internet wires through walls and installed internet plugs and when completed, everything looked so neat. Going shopping for the new curtains wasn't such worthwhile. Maybe I should have made them myself but we got caught on end-of-year-specials sales which really means curtains marked down that noone else really wanted. Unfortunately we chose curtains that looked good in the outlet but probably a bit drab in three of the seven bedrooms. Although we acquired some really nice lace curtains that look really beautiful. I may yet go back and make those curtains that look good without costing a fortune. That's the thing about renovations...it's an evolving work of art!
Then we considered our floors... we've polished timber in the living areas but had only polished the particle board floors in the bedrooms/passage way. I'm not really a carpet lover as I tend to have a dust allergy but I went with the flow and we had carpet set up on all the bare polished chipboard. Wow, what a lift! And so warm and soft underfoot.
Next we turned to the exterior and finally removed an 8 cubic pile of soil taken from the site where the 10,000 litre tank had been installed. Why does it take us the sale-of-a-home position to finally get around to finishing off a thing that would have looked so much better for all those years if we'd carried it out earlier?? Ah, the human condition...procrastination or as my hubby often says, "tomorrow is another day" which suggests today he can play golf and the job can happen tomorrow! Anyway, I digress. We levelled the pile of dirt and sewed lawn seed and hey presto, with all our rain this summer, it came up green and enjoyable! I did a great deal of potting and planting and weeding and the garden looks beautiful. A big thanks to my dad who used to come around for the past seven years and water my garden every week when I was busy elsewhere. Thanks Dad...my garden is an origin of beauty and peace...I love the bird songs.
By now our seven bedroom, four restroom home was looking an actual treat...why on earth would be want to sell? Even so the fact remained there was only two of us and 7 bedrooms and four bathrooms is a bit over the top now...our carbon footprint is way too big despite all our water and energy-saving ways. A 10,000 litre water tank plumbed to the four toilets and laundry and solar cells to heat the water make a great saving for a huge family. But our house, situated near Mount Ommaney Shopping Centre, is now due for new owners, to fill those seven bedrooms and have the convenience of four bathrooms, to sit on the spacious deck and enjoy the night-time breeze. Family and friends made welcome and fun and laughter to fill our home again.
We began with the painting. It is such a large house that we chose to spray paint in preference to hanging on to the end of a roller! The masking time took longer but hey! it only took fifteen minutes to paint a room including the ceiling. And the effect was smooth and so professional-looking. Including full-time work we managed to paint our home in under than three weeks overall. Then we replaced all the light fittings and the ceiling fans. In a 7 bedroom house this meant seven fans! Then came the four bathrooms...cleaning out all the grouting cost us some skin off our fingers! Regrouting, exchanging the taps and new shower screens came next and the result was great...it made our bathrooms look like new!
Then we began on all the broadband wiring... we'd loose ends all around the floors as we had broadband connected to five of the 7 bedrooms. We pulled internet wires through walls and installed internet plugs and when completed, everything looked so neat. Going shopping for the new curtains wasn't such worthwhile. Maybe I should have made them myself but we got caught on end-of-year-specials sales which really means curtains marked down that noone else really wanted. Unfortunately we chose curtains that looked good in the outlet but probably a bit drab in three of the seven bedrooms. Although we acquired some really nice lace curtains that look really beautiful. I may yet go back and make those curtains that look good without costing a fortune. That's the thing about renovations...it's an evolving work of art!
Then we considered our floors... we've polished timber in the living areas but had only polished the particle board floors in the bedrooms/passage way. I'm not really a carpet lover as I tend to have a dust allergy but I went with the flow and we had carpet set up on all the bare polished chipboard. Wow, what a lift! And so warm and soft underfoot.
Next we turned to the exterior and finally removed an 8 cubic pile of soil taken from the site where the 10,000 litre tank had been installed. Why does it take us the sale-of-a-home position to finally get around to finishing off a thing that would have looked so much better for all those years if we'd carried it out earlier?? Ah, the human condition...procrastination or as my hubby often says, "tomorrow is another day" which suggests today he can play golf and the job can happen tomorrow! Anyway, I digress. We levelled the pile of dirt and sewed lawn seed and hey presto, with all our rain this summer, it came up green and enjoyable! I did a great deal of potting and planting and weeding and the garden looks beautiful. A big thanks to my dad who used to come around for the past seven years and water my garden every week when I was busy elsewhere. Thanks Dad...my garden is an origin of beauty and peace...I love the bird songs.
By now our seven bedroom, four restroom home was looking an actual treat...why on earth would be want to sell? Even so the fact remained there was only two of us and 7 bedrooms and four bathrooms is a bit over the top now...our carbon footprint is way too big despite all our water and energy-saving ways. A 10,000 litre water tank plumbed to the four toilets and laundry and solar cells to heat the water make a great saving for a huge family. But our house, situated near Mount Ommaney Shopping Centre, is now due for new owners, to fill those seven bedrooms and have the convenience of four bathrooms, to sit on the spacious deck and enjoy the night-time breeze. Family and friends made welcome and fun and laughter to fill our home again.
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