Just popping in to introduce myself. I'm brydz, just recently became a single mum to a beautiful baby boy named Vincent he is 5 and…

Well. It's almost been 12 months since I logged into this site.
Nothing has happened with regards to renovating. I let my brother and his partner rent my home for about…

Thanks fu.
Of course you know your stuff..
Is it possible for one variety of Hebe to have different coloured flowers? Or is it that I have two varieties mixed together.
I have…

No its definitely a trumpet vine.
see here: http://www.beginner-gardening.com/image ... etvine.jpg
Whatever it is I've already cut it back and on a cooler day intend to dig it…

Thanks I believe you are right about our pretty Cecile Brunner rose.
I didn't notice until I second checked that it had thorns. Hence why I didn't realize it was a…

Well I am going to live in it and renovate it for a few years and then resell it. Because its in my small home town and I don't want…

Thanks Katie, its fantastic isn't it.
But the backyard is bursting with weeds.. some of the milk thistles are taller than I am..
and the grass in the picture is non…

hey thanks I just worked out that it was a trumpet vine myself. I had seen a similar shaped one where the word trumpet was used and google searched it…

Thanks.
the closest one I could find was Hebe "warley pink".. none of the others with such broad leaves are the same sort of colour, although perhaps their colour has not…

Can anyone tell me what these are? I'm very new to this whole plant world.
what are these red/orange flowers?
these purple things are mixed among the red/orange ones. its one big…

I am pretty much smack bang in the centre of Victoria. Gold rush territory.
My house is the only one on the block that is not made of weatherboard.. which…

Thanks mrs B
firstly the roof is pretty much new. and so is all the guttering.
as far as i know electrical has all been re done already also.
the stumps do not…

Thanks fu.
I've actually considered ripping out the entire front part and putting up a short brick rendered fence. I do like the shape and consistency of the hedge along the…

Hey buzz how much would you expect I paid for it?
I personally am not using the blue room for anything other than storage and a spare mattress. It is bigger…

Okay so a keen gardener at work assisted me to identify my hedge as a golden privet..
The problem is it looks fantastic across the side of the driveway but along…

here is a link to one, let me see if this works.
http://i1015.photobucket.com/albums/af2 ... ure713.jpg
this is the fancy fret work in my entry.
http://i1015.photobucket.com/albums/af2…

Thanks Kek.
I didn't realize it wasn't showing up. trying to start an account with photobucket now

I have had my keys to my house since the 7th of Dec so this week I'll be paying my first payment.. I am so excited to finally be in…

Does anybody know anyone that has something like this in their bathroom? Or do any of you have it or like the idea?
http://www.moondaniglass.com.au/moondan ... glass.html
I'd love…

Would do, but it is also hard to find pictures that will blow up to a bigger scale perfectly well.

this is the lamp I am buying and hopefully picking up tomorrow
http://thecatalogueshop.com/products_pi ... lacklg.jpg
mine is not this colour, the lampshade…

Can't go wrong with red can you?
For my small kitchen I'm thinking of something VERY similar to this from Mitre 10.
http://www.mitre10.com.au/Kitchens/Imag ... hen-Range/
I would prefer white…

The kitchen and bathroom are DEFINITELY NOT original though.
Because you can't tell me someone would have built a house with that kind of * hand basin...
And at the back of…

Well it's a standard 3 bedroom house. Not overly huge. Only has the one bathroom. The toilet is off the laundry and will remain there because I hate having the…

Well when the insurance company asked how old it was and I said 20s or 30s (because that is what I believe) and then they asked what it was made…

Are there any property experts out there who would be able to tell me when abouts my house was built?
Is it war era or is it post war era?
I've been…

Well the house HAS been rewired because I looked and there is a fairly new trip switch.
so that is a good thing to start with.
I went with a different insurance…

now I have been running around trying to organize the home insurance that nobody told me to get ahead of time when I actually had time to try and get…

Thank you both for your replies
I've taken lots of deep breaths.
I've cried also.
I think not knowing what is happening with this house I'm in…

This is all too hard.
I hate banks.
They took so long to give me my unconditional approval. Finally I got it and my settlement day is 8 DAYS AWAY!!
I have a…