Hi Little Miss and congrats. In my blog do a search for 'colour selections' I think it was, I listed all the upgrade prices we paid for things.
Pot…

I have to say my friend and I did just laugh the whole way through the house inspection. It was just so over sized you just had to laugh.
Bebe-…

I have a friend, who wants to buy the house across the road from me, but they just can't work out what they can do with the HUGE foyer.
House…

Our kitchen benchtop ended up being 95cm. (I think i realised 1mtr was to tall and had them lowered)
90cm is the average.
I am 165cm tall and a 95cm benchtop…

plucka - the instructions to put them together where easy to follow, it only took my husband about 30mins per shutter to put them together.
In the main bedroom the…

We have done plantation shutters in the front two rooms, our bedroom, ensuite, kids bathroom, toilet, kitchen and computer room. We purchased them from shutterkits (mentioned above) and painted…

I posted them all up on my blog
http://subject2finance.blogspot.com.au/2010/09/last-of-plantation-shutters.html
and here
http://subject2finance.blogspot.com.au/2010/06/plantation-shutters-painted-and.html

What I don't get is all the bath/shower combos. Especially in the girls ensuite, They already had a bath downstairs, why put a bath upstairs as well. That…

DeeMaree I love that new range from Kaisercraft!! I am going to use it to make something for my daughters room. But your idea is so much simpler! I…

Is that in a Porter Davis display home? Do a search on the forum for Porter Davis and furniture there was a huge thread about a year and a…

I've just finished making these to go in the kids bathroom.

A work collegue of mine bought the 'stones' back from a camping trip for me. I work at…

I've just made these to go in the kids bathroom.

A work collegue of mine bought the 'stones' back from a camping trip for me. I work at a…

Heh - I just went to take a picture of the front room, as there is a light post right out the front of our place also. There is…

blueblueblue - you would think the tiler would know to line the grout lines up. Don't assume they are that smart!
We did 300x300 on the floor and 300x600 on…

Try DIY. We got western red cedar shutters from
http://www.shutterkits.com.au
http://subject2finance.blogspot.com/2010/09/last-of-plantation-shutters.html
http://subject2finance.blogspot.com/2010/06/plantation-shutters-painted-and.html
Half the price of getting them installed. It has only been a year, but they still look great! The…

We used Sayers Landscaping to do the front of our place. (He didn't do the deck, and I wouldn't recommend the guy who did the deck)

Depending on the age of the wallpaper it sometimes comes of quite easily.
We tried to remove some wallpaper in an old 80's house. The steamer was taking forever and…

Don't use the ones that you paint a base coat that the 'top' coat sticks to. As the paint will eventually where away where you park your car, the…

We did the same, dropped the garage lower than the house. We have 3 young children and I didn't want stairs inside the house, so they are in the…

For the one dark feature wall and the other 3 white you can look at my thread.
I'd go all dark, from your description it sounds luxurious!

Hi Mclaren - thanks! we are pretty chuffed that two computer nerds have managed to do so much stuff! Mind you Google has helped a fair bit!
The garage floor paint…

We have been working slowly bits and pieces in the back yard. Sometimes you feel like you are just not getting anywhere, but when you look at where you…

Captain Morgan - Try Just Rocks (Kevin). They do Kapunda Bluestone and Katmandoo stone and slate.
Kevin was busy when we wanted our front yard done, so put us…

Hi tuberrose, as you have discovered our walls are all first snow. The skirting are a 'gloss' first snow also, but they aren't really very shiny and don't stand…

danrts - I ended up getting the shutterkits.com.au and had no problem with them at all. I love them!

I love the look of the Lomandra little con! Thanks! I think it will work great.
I also found across the road in the reserve they have planted some Scaevola…

Hey all,
We finished building a year ago today, and have finally gotten around to putting some plants in the front yard.
We had a lanscape plan drawn up for us by…

The rocks are actually Kapunda Bluestone, from the quarry I used to ride past as a kid.
I realised I hadn't put finished photos up, and someone sent me a…

Just to update...
The kit is made by Kaisercraft, called an Advent Calendar (crazily enough) it is about $25, you can get it in Spotlight if you are lucky, I got…

I know techincally not house building or renovating... but I can't decide.
I am making an Advent calender. I've painted all the wood and covered all the little boxes…