Absolutely stunning. Worth waiting the 2 years for.

Beautiful Stormy! Looks wonderful!

How could you let it sit there so long??? Looks perfect ....

Thanks FB! Landscaping will be a while, life is getting a whole heap busier as I begin 2 jobs in the next few weeks...



Thanks Suh, still a long way to go...



Thanks Dee



Thanks Abby!



Thanks Eiffel



LOL, other things getting in the way, lack of dining table and chairs as well, so I had nothing to gauge the height over the table....that's my excuse anyway!!

Absolutely stunning!

Uh, oh, I missed this ... it's beautiful, Stormy!

Have you thought of any landscaping yet? Would love to see any updates there too

Cheers Lex!

I pretty much have most of my landscaping all planned...just have to find time to do it. Still yet to submit plans to Council for front fence, then have to do driveway and retaining wall along the north side...and then I can think about planting.

It will be a fairly formal style garden with white flowers in a cross between formal English garden and French Parterre.

....eventually! I'm working 2 jobs now, so weekends are mostly taken up catching up on housework and being a taxi taking the kids around to their various 'things'.

It's official - we have the same taste!

I was fantasising about having a formal garden, but it not going to happen. Just too much of 'more to demolish' in the current garden. And then we'd be left with zero advanced trees and shrubs - brrrrrrr ....

Can't wait to see some ideas and sketches, not to mention the actual implementation!

Beautiful Stormy!

Hey Guy's,

Just thought I'd post a couple of pics of the spare bedroom transformation (which still isn't quite complete). We decided I needed a dedicated space for all my crafty/sewing stuff, as my collection was continuing to grow, and it was always difficult to start something then have to pack it all away to eat at the table!

This was the 'just-chuck-it-in-the-spare-room' mess I had to deal with first...

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After a bit of planning and measuring, it was off IKEA!

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6 boxes, an Allen key, and a few hours later, we have something that looks like this:

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It's nowhere near complete, but looks so much better and my 'stuff' that was overtaking the meals area has a permanent spot.

Who doesn't love a good EXPEDIT!!! (my apologies for the phone pics, better ones coming later).

Oh IKEA-you've done it again!

Looks great Stormy!!

Gotta love the Expedit!!

Looks great! I will be getting these for my sewing room too. Love them

Also I really like the colour on your walls in the living reas can you tell me what it is
Thanks

Hehe, thanks Guys!

Ren123, my colour throughout is Bristol Nomadic Ivory, full strength. A very close match is apparently Taubmans Antique Ivory. If you do a search on the forum for these 2 paint colours, several threads come up Best to get sample pots, though, you can't trust a colour from a photo on the internet!

Expedits rock! We have 49 cubes of it in our place!

Your set up looks great.

LOL, beat me by 1! We have 48 in total

Thanks stormy will check them out on the weekend, I have a sample pot here of barefoot beach, but am not 100% sure, so will compare it with these Colours.

Bought a sample pot of the antique ivory today and love it
It has the right depth and warmth to it.

Excellent! I love my wall colour, it's almost perfect! Not too pink, but warm enough to not throw any yellow or green . Best wishes with your build!

So I was surfing around ebay just now looking for some prices on Pine decking and a pic caught my eye and I thought, hey! I know that picture from somewhere.

Check this out -

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Treated-Pine ... 231ef2e4cd

Question is, did they ask if they could use your picture or did they just take.