Carpet reveal day

So at 7am this morning (30mins early), the carpet arrived. When I saw it on the back of his ute I was praying he didn't want me to help him carry it in.

 So here is the before shot (sorry it is bad but my camera is out of action and the phone zooms in too much).

 Underlay going down.

 Carpet going down.

 Finished product.

You can see the join here. I hope it disappears as it gets walked on.

 Close up shot. It is sooo super soft. I love it.

The kids are over the moon. They have been jumping around and playing like kids possessed. This have needed a space like this for years and now finally it is here.

Woo hoo!!
Cheers,
Nat

Installing our air con

Firstly, who watched The Block tonight?
That snuck up on me but very happy to have it back again. I think there is actually be some different styles this season which will be nice.

So, this week we have the reverse cycle air conditioners installed. The pipes were run 11 months ago in October last year. So it has been a drawn out process.

In the blue bedroom

In the green bedroom

In the kids retreat

The only thing I am mad about is they were unable to centre the system in the living room, which has totally ruined my curtain plan. Look how off centre it is.

My off centre living room air con

 I did mention that I painted the mantle in undercoat and it now looks like this.

Undercoated mantle

We did get the the plasterer back to plaster the tricky bit behind the stair railings. He did a good job and I managed to sand it back pretty well. So now we need to paint it.

This weekend was happily interrupted by Father's Day. So very little got done. But we did HAVE to get some things done in preparation for the carpet going down on Wednesday. So we needed to start building the built in wardrobe for Andrew's room. Dave built a base and but skirting on which I filled and painted up.

Base for wardrobe

 Then Dave installed the door stop and the magnets for Sam's bedroom wardrobe, which I, again, filled and pained up.

The other door handle finally arrived and yes it was the correct colour this time. Phew! I was going to be spewing if they sent the wrong colour again. So Dave installed them on Friday night and they looked perfect!

New door hardware

Oil rubbed bronze knobs for wardrobe.

I am super excited to see the carpet down this week and we can then start to move some things up. I vacuumed and scrapped all the glue and paint lumps off the floor and Dave added and punch some bad and missing nails in the floor. So it is all set. Woo hoo!

Here is to a good week ahead.

Cheers,

Nat

$$$ Houses in our neighbourhood

There is something crazy going on around our area at the moment.

Houses are selling over $1 million.

Take a look at these:

West Footscray
Sold in March for $1,020,000


West Footscray
Sold in July $1,010,000


Kingsville
Sold in Nov 2014 $1.062,000


Kingsville
Sold in June 2014 $1,050,000


Yarraville
Sold in August $1,055,000











At the moment there is a house close to us with 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms (so same that ours will be), double storey and it is advertised at $950,000. In this area they normally will sell for 10% more than advertised, so it would be sold for more than $1 million. Here it is:


We went through it and it was lovely but I think I will be nicer once it is all finished.

I can't wait to get ours appraised. Not that we will sell it but would be amazing to think that our once tiny old stinky house could be worth $1 million.

Have a nice weekend!
Nat