The Spare Room

The second bedroom has been one of those things that have been really slow going. To save some cash we decided to fix up the existing wall once the asbestos came down rather than covering it up with new vj sheeting like we did in the kitchen.



Before. We had started steaming of the wallpaper when we found fibro. Asbestos-y fibro.

And under the fibro... a total mess!

Jason has spent days and days agonising over filling and sanding the wall over and over until it resembled something good enough to slap some paint on. Along the way I may have been accused of being a 'backseat sander' for constant questions (mostly about how long the whole process would take) and honestly I think Jason could have spent months working on it and trying to make it perfect but basically the wall is AMAZING compared to what we started with.

 



Master painter at work











Painting nearly complete
 

This is how the room looked when our first visitors arrived:

 

 



Such an improvement! We were in a mad rush to get it finished so it's not perfect but it's a huge change from what we started with! It's quite a small bedroom so it's hard to get decent photos but overall the room looks really good. The next step (and there's always a next step) is to get a new ceiling fan with a light so we can remove the old fluro.

Trees? What Trees?

It's 2015 already! I think we expected that our house would be looking vastly more impressive by now, alas... not so much. We've kicked changes off for the year with the removal of the two big trees from our front yard. They provided a lot of shade in the front sunroom but they really had to go. They were far too big and close to the house, were ugly from being cut back so much, and made a mess on the gutters and front steps. When I came home yesterday to see the new yard I was so happy! Here's the before and after:

I'm not sure that this photo does justice to how bad the front garden looked with the trees there, but this was taken just as the removal was starting and a few branches had been cut down.

 

After:

The garden just looks so neat and tidy now. It's obviously not perfect, but at least we have a space to work with. The palms were always there, just overshadowed

We still need to put up a front fence and decide whether we'll even keep the garden or remove it to change the stairs and entrance but for now this is a great improvement!

Loving our daggy little colour coordinated letterbox!