Thanks Michelle...I love the colours you picked out. We are are going to build a sort of floating deck on the patio to cover up the ugly tiles, will this suit the colour scheme?

Hi ethos those homes are lovely...if ours could look that good with the shutters then i'd want to keep them! The gf has seen those pics and suggestion and is now adamant they must stay :( Hi Michelle, that would be great if you could do that!

Na not going to render it. Those shutters are just decoration..they are screwed to the bricks! Thanks for the suggestion dan.

Im trying to give our tired house a bit of a gee up. My partner is hell bent on keeping these ugly window shutter things on our house...I hate them! So my question is, can someone suggest some colours for our gutters, fascias, and those window shutters to help give it more street appeal? The pic isn...

We got it from a shop here in Lismore called 'In your dreams'. They have alot of oil paintings and alot of balinese stuff. We got that painting for $150 reduced from $700.

Haha yeah he's gotta be watched. He loves seeing what can be poo'd/peed on.

So we finally put up our painting in the dining room and it looks awesome! My crappy iphone pics dont do it justice. http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n555/patrickf1/paint.jpg http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n555/patrickf1/paint2.jpg We also have a new member to the family...HARRY! He's so cut...

We removed it with cooking spatulas. Worked a treat. We used the steamer for a while but it took much longer.

So not much has happened since my last post. I blame the cold weather andwanting to do other things on the weekend other than reno'ing! We got some new lights for both the dining room and loungeroom which just take the house to the 21st century. For the dining room we just got a simple rail light. W...

mcvince we just peeled off all the top layer then just sprayed the backing with hot water and fabric softener in one of those garden sprayers. Left it for 10 mins or so then scraped it all off. more pics to come

Rajan the previous owner was an old woman who's now in a nursing home. My gf wants to go and show her the pics but im scared it will her a heart attack seeing what we have done haha Ring once we seen it we knew it had potential but needed alot of work. But that was the type of house we wanted so we ...

Hi Joles i'll find out tonight what the grey is. Its got alot of black tint in it so it doesnt look grey because we originally used 'grey urban' or something like that by dulux, but it looked purple in our room. So we took it back and they said it had alot of magenta tint in it. So we asked for a gr...

We have no idea what were gonna do with the kitchen! Wood grain laminate with yellow benchtop and splashback!! Dunno what they were thinking at the time. Maybe it was the trend back in the day haha. I will have to post pictures of the wallpaper in the bathroom later tonight. Its def really 'retro'..

Hi everyone, my partner and I recently bought our first home. Being young we bought a house which needed some work. The house we bought we still stuck in the 60-70's and had not been updated at all!! Every room had been wallpapered (including the kitchen, batroom and toilet!), besides the wall above...

Lilmsreno yeah were looking at getting rid of those trees and the shutters are definetely going! We want to paint those orange bits on the side of the roofs but we dont know what colour. Patty the house might look great outside, but inside every wall is wallpapered! even in the toilet and bathroom! ...

Hi my partner and I recently purchased our first home. We receive the keys on the 21st! So until then we have been getting quotes, ideas etc etc for little projects we have in mind once we move in. But our problem is we dont know how to bring the exterior of the house up to date. Any ideas would be ...

Thanks for the info guys. Its definetely food for thought! Its good to hear that people have been around that 200k mark. This really eases our minds about building. It seems all your base prices are so much lower than ours :( (northern rivers nsw) which sucks because we would love to build a larger ...

Hi sorry if this info is else where but my partner and I are looking to build our first home. Being young (23 and 21) we dont have much experience in the building process. We found some land and are in the process of attaining funds and are looking to build the coral homes hamilton 232. The base pri...