We are to have a landscaper out to do our front garden at sometime, and want to know what the best grass would be for our area, and how to prepare the sand. It has lots of rocks/debris in it at the top, but go down around 10cm and its rock hard. We are in Byford so very clayey/limestoney. The guy us...

monkeyupatree, we haven't moved in yet. We are waiting for the floors to be done, about 4 weeks! This weekend we are going to start sealing the walls,fun! How is you house going? Have you moved in yet? Sonya Yep all moved in, house sealed and painted...We paid cash to our painter to seal the walls ...

Congratulations. :z: Looking forward to more pics. Have you moved in yet, or are you waiting for the floors etc to be done?

May i ask how you sealed the walls.. is it true you have to sand down the walls before painting them.. i am so new to all of this lol! Hi have only just read the last page of this...as I have been busy painting our house (and moving. :) ) Sanding the walls isnt required after sealing them, but if y...

I have a jaspar garage door, you can see a pic of it in my blog (the photo is a bit ******* though :oops: ). The timber garage doors do look good. I think they come in two tones: a darker one and a lighter one. We didnt bother with them, we couldnt afford the extra cost, so didnt even find how much ...

Those chairs are gorgeous and exactly the type I am after to go into my reading nook in the bedroom. Where did you get them from?

Monkey, yes, I'm building in Bertram :) Not too far from us...I am in Byford. I really like the green with the Geographe Limestone bricks....(but I dont like textured bricks!). I also prefer the jasper colour scheme (I'm biased, my house has jasper! :D ) rather than the woodland grey/ paperbark Do ...

It may just be my pessimistic Victorian outlook here, but I think they build with double brick here in WA because they are too 'stuck in their ways' to explore other options! After all look how far we are behind the rest of Australia, we aren't called ' W ait A while' for no good reason. :D In all s...

We are also having the Karndean vinyl planks (pitch pine) for all areas except wet (tiles), beds and theatre (carpet). Tiles hurt my feet, and I am always dropping stuff which either breaks or the tiles chip. I also dont like the sound of boards, I have three noisy kids who would take great delight ...

We have red doors! :D Our red is called 'red box' by dulux, although the doors are a bit more redder than the colour chip. I still think it looks okay and it is different to everyone else, so far, in our estate.

We have quite a few, light bricks (2 course too I think), light roofs in our estate. Our fences are also harvest! :shock: Not building SOR are you? If you would like me to take some snaps of them for you I can do that. We will be out that way tomorrow painting...and the next day...and the next day.....

Congratulations!!! What is a soakwell? Basically a bottomless tank with holes around the outside that is buried, with your drainpipes running into it. http://www.soakwells.com.au/index.html

Any more progress Sonya?

Oh, and children on school holidays equals a cheap / free labour source... utilise it! :lol: Hahaha you dont know my kids!! They complain about putting their school bags away...let alone trying to get them to do anything else. Sadly bribes dont work :( Luckily we have an empty block beside us that ...

Congratulations... (we have just had ours today :) )...its fantastic isn't it! :D :D Enjoy your new home.

Thats great tinfish...8k sounds much better than 37k Is the new land still in Seville Grove or did you go to another suburb?

We will be on our way in about 30 minutes to go pick up the keys to our house! YAY YAY! We were hoping to get them before easter as the money had gone through on Wednesday, but our CSO has a day off every Thursday. :evil: Something else she didnt tell us! So now we have to organize everything that n...

Nice selections. :) We have rock salt for our bathroom bench. Its a very nice colour.

SS is 'Site supervisor' CSO is 'customer service officer' (or something like that)