I'm super excited...

Pottery Barn at Chadstone opens tomorrow at 10am.

So right after my daughters swimming lesson, I will be making the long drive over there to see it in person.

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Here they are getting ready for me.




I must remember to take my camera to get lots of photos for my blog and for my ideas list.

Hip hip hooray!!

Might do some Christmas shopping there too.
Cheers,
Nat

Bye bye ceiling

It turned out to be a rainy weekend in Melbourne. So after we got a bit of painting in on Saturday morning, we had to turn to our rainy day jobs list.

A month ago we opened up the back section of the house and laid the floor. Today we ripped down the old lounge room ceiling.

Before photo. Ceiling still intact. (Bad photo because it is dark and rainy outside today)

Plaster coming down

Plaster down

Vacuuming the top of the plaster before pulling it all down.

Another Mona Lisa shot

More light coming through

Heidi cleaning up after Dad.

I can see the pretty tree in the backyard from the kitchen sink

Pulling down the doorway

 What a mess huh! Don't you feel so lucky you don't have to live here right now. We will be eating plaster dust for a while I'm sure.

 After the rain stopped, we managed to get outside and put on some missing weatherboards.

This is outside the bathroom

It is so daunting to think about how much we still have to do. Weekends go so fast and we don't see much change for our work. Christmas is less than six weeks away and I can't seeing us getting to lock up by then like we'd hoped. I did order and pay for the two new windows to go next to the fireplace on Friday. So we hope they will be here before Christmas.

Cheers,
Nat

Painting pressure

Since we got back from our second weekend away last week, I have found a new enthusiasm for the renovation. I've tossed aside the house keeping and am concentrating every chance I have, to getting the painting done on the top level.

I have finally finished the green on the back two windows. Man that is very slow going on such large windows. The last coat I did with on of the kids art paint brushes.

Dave has finished the final coat of yellow on the back too. He also installed the top timber flashings on them and the pretty scotia underneath. They are looking mighty smart now. Just picture them when the scaffold is down.

Fancy trims again

Scotia underneath. I just filled the holes and it's waiting to be painted

The green colour looks wrong in this zoomed in photo.

So that is what we are busy doing at the moment.

Cheers,
Nat