I have the Freedom screens and they were expensive but they are great.
I had a blind similar to the ziplock at the last house and they were a PIA.
So inconvenient…

Have you thought of screening the alfresco rather than the doors?
That way you can use the area all summer, day or night without the flies and mossies.

You will see a huge ultra-modern home built amongst 30-40 year old homes and it sticks out like a sore thumb, I think they need to be built in estates…

We had a west facing alfresco in our previous house and couldn't use it in the summer because of the extreme heat and the bugs.
Can it go in the middle…

This window is 600 x 2400

Hi Hootie
Where we buy our supplies they sell by the tonne. We recently bought some 20mm blue metal and it cost $47 a tonne. What you see in the photo…

Get the occasional weed but not enough to waste money on plastic lining.
When the dog digs and makes a mess we just rake the stones back in place.

Hi poohbear
A local bloke did all the outside work around our place and he bought everything from a wholesale nursery so I don’t know the exact cost but I can…

Your area looks similar in size to ours. We only go down there to pick up doggy dos.
We had white pebbles and stepping stones down the side of our first…

We had a pool installed in 1994 so were in this situation when we did a KDR in 2004.
We put a fence around the pool but one of our…

For your future reference:-
We had a problem with weeds and the runners from another breed of grass growing in our Palmetto.
When we spoke to the gardening expert at Bunnings she…

Most places will recommend bamboo for screening, grows tall and fast.
Look for plants Wollongong on Gumtree, there are some available at the moment at Dapto.
Ask friends and neighbours for cuttings,…

I think 4walls is correct.
Check this link.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gorenje-14-HY-8 ... rds=HANDLE

I'd probably lean towards the cool grey.

Three of the fans use R7S bulbs and the other two use T5 22W.
Most fans are unattractive but when you do come across one that looks "nice" it unfortunately has…

If I were you I would delay the start of renovations until you are more enlightened and know what you want.
You need to visit as many display homes as possible…

Some random shots in different lights.
Walls - Bleaches half
Skirts - Bleaches quarter gloss

This is what we did in our second and current build:-
Beds 1, 2, 3 – Fans with lights, bedside lamps, remotes (basic with no LCD screen as they chew the…

Let me ask the naysayers the following questions.
When you're at the beach how high are the waves?
When you are in an aircraft how is the pilot measuring his altitude?
When you…

No-one else has offered any advice so I will tell you what ours cost even though it was installed at the end of 2011 and the model is probably superceded.
Mitsubishi…

During our build we received this email from our builders:-
"It has come to our attention that we have specified the same door handle and roller bolt style latch to your…

Thanks for the tip bluebettie99.
I sent hubby down to the big green shed today in search of the replacement seals.
He returned with a packet of Kinetic ASSORTED BASKET STRAINER WASHERS.
Both…

I prefer WIR but make sure they are big enough. A huge majority of the plans on here show a small L shaped WIR and believe me the clothes for…

We came into some dough in 2005 and lived in a dump so we did a KDR and decided our sh!tty furniture and white goods had to go as well.
During…

Like Saint Mike, we installed Freedom Screens, but instead of putting them on the doors we put them around the alfresco.
When the first flies appear we pull them across,…

I have one shelf 724mm above the bench in my pantry, it had to be that high because of two fixed windows, it is 450 deep but I can only…

I would move the fridge up the top, then the cooktop, then have the main sink at the bottom opposite the butlers pantry. No second sink required.
You could have the…

As no-one else has posted a reply I will show you some pics of our walls in different lights. Even though it is not a popular colour on this forum…

The obvious way to fix it is to move the whole vanity to the left and centre the window between the basins but I gather that is not possible?
The brickwork…

We are in the Wollongong area and also on a sloping block so we had to have drop edge beams which meant steps were required outside the laundry. Our build…