Wow, did we have fun doing the renovations 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 in the long run. Actually it wasn't a day it was a year. Our house 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. Although, despite the time required we feel so inspired by our hard work and the outcomes we achieved. And it was a perfect opportunity to look at the accumulated jumble we had built up over the past eighteen years and do a super clear out...so refreshing to relinquish the old and be free to move on now that the kids have left home and just the two of us looking forward to retirement and down-sizing to a smaller home.
We started off with the painting. It is such a huge 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 fifteen minutes to decorate a room including the ceiling. And the end product was smooth and so professional-looking. Including full-time work we managed to decorate our home in less than three weeks overall. Then we replaced all the ceiling fans and light fittings. In a seven bedroom home this meant seven fans! Then came the four bathrooms...cleaning out all the grouting cost us some skin off our fingers! Regrouting, switching 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 internet wiring... we'd loose ends all around the floors as we'd internet connected to five of the 7 bedrooms. We pulled broadband wires through walls and installed internet plugs and when completed, everything looked so neat. Going trying to find the new curtains wasn't such a good idea. Possibly I should 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. Unfortunately we chose curtains that looked good in the outlet but probably a bit drab in three of the 7 bedrooms. All the same we picked up some really nice lace curtains that look really gorgeous. 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 viewed our floors... we've 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 have a tendency 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 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 situation to finally navigate to finishing off something 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 another day" which means today he can play 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 pleasurable! 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 7 years and water my garden each week while I was busy elsewhere. Thanks Dad...my garden is a source of beauty and peace...I love the bird songs.
By now our 7 bedroom, four bathroom home was looking a real treat...why on earth would be want to trade? Although the fact remained there was only two of us and seven 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 panels 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. Friends and family made welcome and fun and laughter to fill our home again.
We started off with the painting. It is such a huge 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 fifteen minutes to decorate a room including the ceiling. And the end product was smooth and so professional-looking. Including full-time work we managed to decorate our home in less than three weeks overall. Then we replaced all the ceiling fans and light fittings. In a seven bedroom home this meant seven fans! Then came the four bathrooms...cleaning out all the grouting cost us some skin off our fingers! Regrouting, switching 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 internet wiring... we'd loose ends all around the floors as we'd internet connected to five of the 7 bedrooms. We pulled broadband wires through walls and installed internet plugs and when completed, everything looked so neat. Going trying to find the new curtains wasn't such a good idea. Possibly I should 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. Unfortunately we chose curtains that looked good in the outlet but probably a bit drab in three of the 7 bedrooms. All the same we picked up some really nice lace curtains that look really gorgeous. 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 viewed our floors... we've 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 have a tendency 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 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 situation to finally navigate to finishing off something 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 another day" which means today he can play 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 pleasurable! 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 7 years and water my garden each week while I was busy elsewhere. Thanks Dad...my garden is a source of beauty and peace...I love the bird songs.
By now our 7 bedroom, four bathroom home was looking a real treat...why on earth would be want to trade? Although the fact remained there was only two of us and seven 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 panels 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. Friends and family made welcome and fun and laughter to fill our home again.
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