The Laundry Cupboard

My current (existing) bathroom also doubles as a laundry - so as part of the renovation, I decided it needed its own space!

I've created a laundry cupboard! Its located just outside the bathroom.

There will be sliding doors on here - the left hand side of the picture will be the laundry space - there will be a tub, front loader washing machine, & wall hung dryer. There will be a benchtop from the sink, running over the top of the washing machine. Harley is standing in front of the new cupboard - half of it will be open, to store brooms, mops, vacuum, ironing board etc, the other side will be shelved.

Turning the Spare Room into a new Bathroom!

So, April 2010 saw my little mini-make over of the spare room .....

Original ....

Post Mini Makeover

At the time, I was thinking that this room would become my laundry room one day - well, I had a re-think on that ....... I really don't need a whole room for my laundry, so I decided a laundry cupboard would suffice. I will do a separate blog on that in a minute

The spare room is now rapidly turning into a new Bathroom!

First, we had to move a wall to make room for a bath .....

(Brown wood frame - original, Green wood frame - new)

Bath taking shape .... I had a recessed shelf built in - which looks like a great big hole in the wall in this picture!

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The waterproofing was done yesterday, ready for the tiling to commence on Monday :)

Same deal with the shower ...........

I'm having 2 recessed shelves in the shower .......

Waterproofed!! I don't know why its 2 different colours ..... curious

The toilet, vanity, bath & tiles are all here, waiting to be installed! Can't wait!

So, its looking quite different ...... This stage of the renovation probably has the most elements to it than the rest of it will - moved a wall, removed a window & replaced with a new one, the plumbing, the electrics, the waterproofing, tiles etc etc .... touch wood, its all gone very well so far!! The council are booked to come on Monday to inspect the waterproofing, then the tiling can begin! Yay!!

From this ............

To this ...............

The Garage

A few weekends back, I decided to give the front of the garage a little tidy-up. What I thought was going to be quite quick & simple, ended up taking me 2 days!! (over 2 weekends)

Before:



After








You can see the right hand side is yet to get a lick of white paint .... I ran out of steam!! And I will never again paint lattice! What a PITA that was!! It took forever!!

The 'Useless' Room

It only recently occurred to me that this room actually looks pretty good now - even though I refer to it as my 'Useless Room'. Its the room that you walk into upon entering the front door, so its kinda long & skinny, and kinda, well, useless!

I haven't actually done anything to this room, apart from remove the carpet & have the floors sanded & polished - which was all done before I moved in, back in March '10

Before:




After:



I'm not quite sure what this room will end up being used for .... at the moment, it holds the dining table - that is never used because I eat in front of the TV most nights!!

Bathroom Mini-Makeover

This was a 'quick win' room ..... I had left-over tile & laminate paint from the kitchen make over, as well as a small colour sample pot of paint, so I figured why not put it to good use!!



The bathroom was spotlessly clean when we moved in, but soooooooooo dated. I'm happy with the results on this one, really simple, yet has a nice effect.



From memory, this room only took a couple of days ... as long as it took for the paint to dry & then do a 2nd coat :) The brand & colour paint I used here is 'Nippon - Posseidon'



At this stage, I'm thinking this room will one day end up being a kitchen, so I didn't really do much more than this - I didn't bother painting the ceiling, and I didn't paint the tiles on the side of the room you can't see - that would have meant having to buy another tin of tile paint, and at $50 a pop, for just 1 teeny litre, it just wasn't worth it!!


Shame I couldn't paint the tub ... I did paint the soap tray though!! I figured it would look a bit manky on a white wall if I didn't!




Before








After

The Spare Room

This teeny little room, will one day become my laundry (I think). Besides the bathroom, its the only room in the house that has a cement floor, hence, this room didn't get polished floor boards.



When the guy was tearing up the rest of the carpet in the house, I had him take up the old carpet in this room too, so what I thought would be a quick lick of paint, new curtain & blind, and a bit of new carpet, ended up taking me 3 weekends!!



Once again, Dad was fantastic, and ended up laying the carpet for me - I don't know what made me think I would be able to do it on my own!!



The walls were kind of aqua-ish, so I had to do an undercoat/primer before I put my colour on - I used 'Dulux - Hog Bristle'. A really versatile colour I think.



Here are the before & after pics ......

Before

After

and a couple of 'during' pics .....

The Driveway & Front Fence

So far, of all the work on the house, this one has taken the longest, and cost the most!!! I ordered the fence back in April, with a 5 week delivery time frame. A couple of days after the concrete was poured, it rained for about 2 weeks, so they couldn't come back to seal it so I could actually use it! They managed to seal it between showers on Thursday, and it will be good to use tomorrow!! YAY!! No more stumbling around in the dark, dodging mud puddles!!



I am totally thrilled with the results, I think it looks 100 times better already, and I haven't even started on the gardens yet ... well, apart from getting rid of the palms, and other trees.

Once again, a HUGE thanks to dad for his help on this - he arranged the 'workers' and came by whenever needed while I was at work. He also spent the morning here shovelling gravel for me - the run up to the driveway from the road leaves a lot to be desired, so now its nice & even, THANKS DAD!! xxx

I forgot to add .... the fence people will be back, weather permitting, to install the driveway gate - its motorised, so just the press of a button, and I'm good to go!! I wont have to get out of the car to open the gate in the rain, or in the dark!! Horah!!!

Front fence Before

Front Fence After

Driveway gate installed!

I changed my mind on the colour of the pickets for the side fence & gates after I had ordered them, and I'm glad I did now ... they were originally going to be white, so that's why the posts are white - they had already made them by the time I changed my mind. I like it though, I think the white posts look fine! I think if the pickets were white, it would look too stark.

Side of House Before


Side of House After



Side of House Before




Side of house, including new driveway, After