What a blast, did we have fun doing the renovations on our own house situated in a green leafy suburb of Brisbane . It was like a dream a reality...everything comes up neat and workable in the long-term. 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 seven bedrooms and four bathrooms was quite a task, something we quite underestimated time-wise. Yet, despite the time required we feel so inspired by our hard work and the outcomes we achieved. And it was a good opportunity to look at the accumulated clutter we had built up over the previous 18 years and do a super clean out...so freeing 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 smaller home.
We began with the painting. It is such a large home that we chose to spray paint as opposed to hanging on to the end of a roller! The masking time took longer but hey! it only took 15 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 less than three weeks overall. Then we replaced all the ceiling fans and light fittings. In a seven bedroom house this meant seven fans! Then came the four bathrooms...cleaning out all the grout cost us some skin off our fingers! Regrouting, swapping the tapware and new shower screens came next and the result was perfect...it made our bathrooms look like new!
Then we started on all the broadband wiring... we'd loose ends all around the floors as we'd internet connected to five of the seven 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 a great idea. Perhaps I ought to have made them myself but we got caught on end-of-year-specials sales which really means curtains reduced price that noone else really wanted. Regrettably we chose curtains that looked good in the store but probably a bit drab in three of the 7 bedrooms. Nevertheless we picked up some really nice lace curtains that look really beautiful. I might yet go back and make those curtains that look good without costing a fortune. That's the thing about renovations...it's an evolving artwork!
Then we stared at our floors... we have polished hardwood in the living areas but had only polished the chipboard floors in the bedrooms/passage way. I'm not really a carpet lover as I am inclined to have a dust allergy but I went with the flow and we'd carpet installed on all the bare polished chipboard. Wow, what a lift! And so warm and soft underfoot.
Next we turned to the outer layer and finally taking away 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 had done it earlier?? Ah, the human condition...procrastination or as my husband often says, "tomorrow is the one other day" which signifies today he can play the game of golf and the work 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 stunning! I did lots 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 7 years and water my garden every week while I was busy elsewhere. Thanks Dad...my garden is an origin of peace and beauty...I love the bird songs.
By now our 7 bedroom, four restroom home was looking a real treat...why on earth would be want to sell? Yet the fact remained there was only two of us and seven bedrooms and four bathrooms is a bit excessive now...our carbon footprint is way too large 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 an ideal saving for a huge family. But our home, 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 evening 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 home that we chose to spray paint as opposed to hanging on to the end of a roller! The masking time took longer but hey! it only took 15 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 less than three weeks overall. Then we replaced all the ceiling fans and light fittings. In a seven bedroom house this meant seven fans! Then came the four bathrooms...cleaning out all the grout cost us some skin off our fingers! Regrouting, swapping the tapware and new shower screens came next and the result was perfect...it made our bathrooms look like new!
Then we started on all the broadband wiring... we'd loose ends all around the floors as we'd internet connected to five of the seven 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 a great idea. Perhaps I ought to have made them myself but we got caught on end-of-year-specials sales which really means curtains reduced price that noone else really wanted. Regrettably we chose curtains that looked good in the store but probably a bit drab in three of the 7 bedrooms. Nevertheless we picked up some really nice lace curtains that look really beautiful. I might yet go back and make those curtains that look good without costing a fortune. That's the thing about renovations...it's an evolving artwork!
Then we stared at our floors... we have polished hardwood in the living areas but had only polished the chipboard floors in the bedrooms/passage way. I'm not really a carpet lover as I am inclined to have a dust allergy but I went with the flow and we'd carpet installed on all the bare polished chipboard. Wow, what a lift! And so warm and soft underfoot.
Next we turned to the outer layer and finally taking away 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 had done it earlier?? Ah, the human condition...procrastination or as my husband often says, "tomorrow is the one other day" which signifies today he can play the game of golf and the work 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 stunning! I did lots 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 7 years and water my garden every week while I was busy elsewhere. Thanks Dad...my garden is an origin of peace and beauty...I love the bird songs.
By now our 7 bedroom, four restroom home was looking a real treat...why on earth would be want to sell? Yet the fact remained there was only two of us and seven bedrooms and four bathrooms is a bit excessive now...our carbon footprint is way too large 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 an ideal saving for a huge family. But our home, 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 evening breeze. Family and friends made welcome and fun and laughter to fill our home again.
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