Labour day labouring

How good are long weekends! I love it that I get a long weekend for my birthday too.

During the week I started painting the new laundry door. Then Dave did the architrave around the door and the highlight window above. I can't wait to paint it black and have already picked up a few paint samples. Who knew there were so many different blacks.

 

More work was done on the ensuite. Dave installed the cavity sliding door and then plastered around it and inside the ensuite. Oh and we also plastered the ceilling in there too.

 

Sorry about the horrid photo, but here are the shower niches which Dave just finished putting the cement sheet in ready for waterproofing. I am so excited about my footrest.

 The the door was architraved. The base blocks were glued and nailed...

  

and oh course it all must be level!

 

Then the rest of the architraves were put on. 

 So, it is starting to look a bit more finished now.

It wasn't all work on my Birthday weekend though. We took a quick road trip to Geelong to have lunch.

I really hope that this ensuite gets moving a bit faster. It is so close but still so much to do.
Have a good week everyone,
Nat

Floors and walls

Dave smashed it out this weekend. It is looking so good now. *smiley face* I am so proud of him. He even made the time to take the boys fishing.

It started with insulating the ensuite, straightening the walls and then hanging the plaster.

  

We have two niches in the shower. One for shampoo etc and the other is a footrest for shaving legs. How cool is that???

 Just have to hang the ceiling plaster and then install the cavity slider and finish the wall on the other side of that.

Then he plastered the laundry room.

Next came the rest of the blackbutt flooring for the laundry.

This was great news as I could finally get the wood pile out of the dining area. Well first it was stacked near the fireplace so he could sort it, but then it was all installed.

 Before:

 Progress:

Then, we decided to leave the old baltic pine floorboards in the cupboard. Mainly because the walls were sitting on it and also I think it is a cute reminder of what the house used to look like.

 After:

 Feels so much closer to being complete now that the plastering and flooring is almost done. It is times like these that I get a new little buzz of excitement.

Tonight we are picking up the tiles for the ensuite. Hip, hip hooray!

Oh and I spend my birthday money on a new bar fridge for the bar area in the living room.
I got this Esatto Mini Bar fridge for $199 (down from $300) from Masters.

The good things about it are that it has a separate door for the freezer so things will stay colder and it has a light in it, which so many bar fridges don't. Plus it is so cute don't you think?
Now to fill it with drinks.

Cheers,
Nat

Ikea laundry ideas

    Yesterday I did a flying trip to Ikea to plan the laundry.

I want something like this but can't decide on the perfect cabinet.

My plan is looking like this so far.

I took a few snaps of things I like.

So soon I need to make some tough decisions.

Actually the doors that I prefer are from Bunnings in the Alpine design in white.


Ahhh what to do??

Any suggestions?

Cheers,
Nat