Sunday, August 28, 2011
How did you spend your Sunday?
I spent mine laying this floor. I have done it nearly all by myself!! Yes by myself.
Friday, August 26, 2011
Look what we have today
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| Hopefully by Monday we'll have a fair amount of the floor covered. Very exciting. |
Thursday, August 25, 2011
More paint
On Sunday Timothy and I with the help of our carpetner Tim will start to lay the floor. The carpet will go down on the 5th Sept and I hope before that the tiles in wet areas will be laid.It's nearing the end.
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| Harison's room |
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| Harison's new wardrobe |
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| Harison in Elliott's room |
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| The Red Door, still in need of another coat. I decided to tint up the paint slightly darker instead of choosing a new paint. Tomorow it will have it's final coat. The whole door has to be re-hung and a new jamb and step put in. Nothing like paying for the same job TWICE!!! Grrrrrrrrrr |
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| The shiny new door handles. |
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Red Door not convinced
What do you think?
I love this pink !
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Paint me pretty
.For those that are interested
The paint colours are all Dulux. The white walls are Hogs Bristle quarter strength, ceilings, Antique USA white, dining wall is Sea Breeze full strength, kitchen is quarter Sea Breeze and bedroom is half Sea Breeze. This turned out brighter than I thought, I thought it was going to be a more blue grey but I like the result. I really like it.
The bathroom is Karma but alot of it will be covered up with white tiles.
The study I looove its called Adept. The boys rooms, Elliott's is Blue Expanse( only one wall here) and his bathroom has one wall of Corfu. The pine lining looks fantastic, so Hamptoms style. Harrys room is Springsprout but will also have a stripe of Blue Expanse on the green on the others walls about half way up and the remainder will be Hogs Bristle. His bathroom wall is Golden Rod.
All colours up stairs have been chosen on the horizontal line of the fandeck and the down stairs colours are all vertical on the fan deck( colour chart). So in the same color line. Basically that means they are the same shade but in gradually deeper shades.
So hopefully this means a harmonious blend of colours and not just picked willy nilly from colour charts. That's my theory for what its worth.
I decided to brighten up the boys bathroom with colour for now until I decided on tiling colors. Besides they are kids rooms and they should be fun.
The brackets outside are painted in Bristols Adams Red as will be the front door and back door. I think I might paint the inside of the door black.
It was hard choosing colours. Not knowing what they really would look like on a large scale. The Sea Breeze looked really grey blue compared to the other blues on the fandeck but didn't turn out that way.
The floorboards will be a spotted gum, not too pinky or yellowy. The carpet I have for the stairs and study is beautiful Axminster carpet, very very expensive.
But lucky me got a sweet deal on an end of roll. They don't sell much of it down here so I was extermely fortunate to spy it in their warehouse where they stock the end of rolls. It's the sort of carpet posh people have!!! The other carpet is for the rest of us plebs and is colour matched as best as possible. This will meet the axi at the top of the stairs and will also be used in the down stairs bedroom.
Definitley shoes off in our house now. Don't worry I'll put out a little basket filled with fresh socks for our guests to put on!!!!!
Tiles as I said are undecided yet. The ones I like, well, per square metre are only $292!!!! And that's only for the shower base.
Guess I'll be out driving taxis to save up for those ones.
That's where we are at today. Oh yes and my oven has arrived and is sitting patiently at Retravision Tura Beach.
Picture black oven, black range hood against light blue wall (eventually tiled in light blue subway tile if I can get them), white shaker style cupboards and white stone bench tops. Hmmmm sounds good to me.
Oh all door frames, doors, arcs and skirtings in gloss white.
Oops I forgot the main bathroom photo. Next time.
The paint colours are all Dulux. The white walls are Hogs Bristle quarter strength, ceilings, Antique USA white, dining wall is Sea Breeze full strength, kitchen is quarter Sea Breeze and bedroom is half Sea Breeze. This turned out brighter than I thought, I thought it was going to be a more blue grey but I like the result. I really like it.
The bathroom is Karma but alot of it will be covered up with white tiles.
The study I looove its called Adept. The boys rooms, Elliott's is Blue Expanse( only one wall here) and his bathroom has one wall of Corfu. The pine lining looks fantastic, so Hamptoms style. Harrys room is Springsprout but will also have a stripe of Blue Expanse on the green on the others walls about half way up and the remainder will be Hogs Bristle. His bathroom wall is Golden Rod.
All colours up stairs have been chosen on the horizontal line of the fandeck and the down stairs colours are all vertical on the fan deck( colour chart). So in the same color line. Basically that means they are the same shade but in gradually deeper shades.
So hopefully this means a harmonious blend of colours and not just picked willy nilly from colour charts. That's my theory for what its worth.
I decided to brighten up the boys bathroom with colour for now until I decided on tiling colors. Besides they are kids rooms and they should be fun.
The brackets outside are painted in Bristols Adams Red as will be the front door and back door. I think I might paint the inside of the door black.
It was hard choosing colours. Not knowing what they really would look like on a large scale. The Sea Breeze looked really grey blue compared to the other blues on the fandeck but didn't turn out that way.
The floorboards will be a spotted gum, not too pinky or yellowy. The carpet I have for the stairs and study is beautiful Axminster carpet, very very expensive.
But lucky me got a sweet deal on an end of roll. They don't sell much of it down here so I was extermely fortunate to spy it in their warehouse where they stock the end of rolls. It's the sort of carpet posh people have!!! The other carpet is for the rest of us plebs and is colour matched as best as possible. This will meet the axi at the top of the stairs and will also be used in the down stairs bedroom.
Definitley shoes off in our house now. Don't worry I'll put out a little basket filled with fresh socks for our guests to put on!!!!!
Tiles as I said are undecided yet. The ones I like, well, per square metre are only $292!!!! And that's only for the shower base.
Guess I'll be out driving taxis to save up for those ones.
That's where we are at today. Oh yes and my oven has arrived and is sitting patiently at Retravision Tura Beach.
Picture black oven, black range hood against light blue wall (eventually tiled in light blue subway tile if I can get them), white shaker style cupboards and white stone bench tops. Hmmmm sounds good to me.
Oh all door frames, doors, arcs and skirtings in gloss white.
Oops I forgot the main bathroom photo. Next time.
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