Browse Forums Building A New House Re: {Dawn} SE Melb Custom Build - Ever After :) 2605Oct 18, 2017 8:42 pm Building SOR with Dreamstart Homes Customised Dream Dior/Summer Sensation https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=83776 Re: {Dawn} SE Melb Custom Build - Ever After 😀 2610Oct 19, 2017 8:10 pm It's looking so amazing Dawn! I've been in almost a week and I just find the whole landscaping thing completely overwhelming. So I've done nothing You've done such a great job! My kitty loves sleeping under the washing too, no idea why! Cat run looks great, lucky kitties! Re: {Dawn} SE Melb Custom Build - Ever After 😀 2611Oct 19, 2017 9:40 pm The grass has really improved! Viv is sooo cute! You have made so much progress so quickly! I don't think we will be so organised. https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?share_ ... are_type=t Re: {Dawn} SE Melb Custom Build - Ever After :) 2613Oct 21, 2017 5:18 pm Another busy Saturday!! Can't wait for one where I can sleep in and watch Netflix all day XD Backyard with all magnolias along the back now. Grass is finally coming up green D just patchy.. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Front yard.. Moved a few plants, planted some ground covers and put in the garden edging (also put heaps of soil around). Dad finished off the paving today. Unfortunately he couldn't source any fencing, so no front fence this week. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Hopefully after a few weeks everything will settle in, grass will go green, etc.. Last thing to do in the front yard is finish off the fence, then DONE D At least for now. Also put the final pieces on the side gate today. Garden edging is so much more effort than I expected!! Exhausting. Stupid tap is in a very annoying spot. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Bought these pots and pebbles to finish off this side garden. Already looking better. Dad put the pots a bit further apart than I was hoping, but too heavy for me to move them XD Just need some plants. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Friend came over to install the shower door today, but the glass supplied was too big!! So back to the drawing board. He will come back another day. Although in good news, he was able to seal all the mirrors in the bathrooms (they were all loose and falling off the walls ). He also got the big blob of silicone of the shower floor, yay!! Also my neighbors down the road are the sweetest!! Their dogs got out on Thursday with all the wind, I was home and they came by so I wandered down the street till I found the swinging gate and took them home. I ran into the neighbor this morning and let them know, in case they needed to secure the gate or something... 10 minutes later they turned up with a box of chocolates. So nice of them. Outside is nearly done!! To do list: - Frangapanis - Plants for planters - Front fence Re: {Dawn} SE Melb Custom Build - Ever After :) 2614Oct 21, 2017 7:06 pm Its great to see you settling in to your house now dawn and putting your touch on the place What edging did you use? I really like the rusty strips, in my old place we didn't do any garden beds there were already beds out the front with concrete bars in the ground so it didn't hold much in place. I've just pulled out my gardening book to have a look at plants.. unfortunately I don't have much of an idea and no idea what I want to do haha. Where did you do all your research on what to plant!? I also really like your cat enclosure- Do you like it better than a fixed metal cage one? I've been looking into getting something so my outdoor loving cat can go outside. Also do you have a cat door so they can go outside or do you just let them out when your home? I've been looking at what we can do- we don't really have anywhere to let them out where I want to put the future enclosure. Re: {Dawn} SE Melb Custom Build - Ever After :) 2615Oct 21, 2017 7:55 pm Thanks I just used plastic edging in a Jarrah colour from Bunnings. Yeah mums had concrete edging when they moved in, was a bit bleh. Hehe, mostly I just picked pretty flowers I liked, and my mum gave me some guidance on what to avoid and what would work where. I've never had a cat run before, but I like this one better than the metal cages, much bigger and open. More like a section of the backyard is split out and safe for them. Previously Cassie was an outdoor cat, but she's settled into being an indoor cat and she likes the cat run a lot. I have a cat door built into the laundry sliding door, so they can go out whenever they please.. if they could ever figure out how to use it *facepalm*. There are a lot of cat enclosure options, some just go on the fence, some netting goes along the edge of your fence, or you can have a covered enclosure, or a set up. You can get a net set up that is freestanding too rather than a metal one. Re: {Dawn} SE Melb Custom Build - Ever After :) 2616Oct 22, 2017 10:06 am Your garden is coming along so well! The tap thing is such a pain, they seem to plonk them where ever they like. In our estate I've noticed lots of people have them right in line with the front door...hoping ours is more suitably places or I'll be paying for it to be moved because I'm determined to have a front path. Re: {Dawn} SE Melb Custom Build - Ever After :) 2617Oct 22, 2017 6:01 pm They do just plonk them anywhere! Worst for me is I have no tap in my backyard or down the sides of my house, so when I want to water the backyard I have to run a hose from the front tap, through the garage, down the side, and into the backyard. I'm thinking of paying to get a tap added out the back, though don't know how they do that. Re: {Dawn} SE Melb Custom Build - Ever After :) 2618Oct 22, 2017 6:31 pm Theyd have to plumb it from somewhere. We've got three taps and they let us put them where we wanted them. Re: {Dawn} SE Melb Custom Build - Ever After :) 2619Oct 22, 2017 8:33 pm Ill have to have a look into the different types of cat runs We only got one tap on our house its right down the back on the left hand side corner I think I would have preferred it closer to the alfresco area, but atleast it will reach all off the back yard and some of the side with a long hose. We have the water meter with a tap on that at the front of the house that we can use do the front half- ours was put in the middle of the block. Hubby also thinks we have one on the side of the house at the hot water system though Im not sure its one we can use whenever. Went to the nursery today in the rain to look at some plants- I really only paid attention to the trees- Looked at some weeping cherries and some Japanese Maples (I think) for the front of the yard... At my old house we had a second garden tap put into our backyard- we put it to the garage so it could have water but never used it. Anyway they dug a line laid some pipes and covered it back up- Not how you would go about it though you would have to run it all the way down the side of the house, unless they could do it from the house?? Shame they didn't give you a choice on location. Re: {Dawn} SE Melb Custom Build - Ever After :) 2620Oct 23, 2017 8:01 am Yeah, I originally had planned on three taps, one at the front with the meter, one at the back, and one to the side (recycled). Instead I got the one at the front with the meter, and one on the side of the house, 1m behind the electrical box. Its a pain because of the cat run, cant run a hose down that side. I thought there would be one near the back of the house Thankfully my block is small so a 30m hose gets around most of the house. Maples are nice My tree in the front is a red weeping Japanese maple. I also like the weeping cherries. So pretty!! I think you need to pick your trees before you pick anything else. I work with owner, he/she is my man on the ground and I instruct them when to visit the site and take photos and I have other tools in the bag. 4 15284 I am in the same situation, would you be able to give some insights in to this? I am in SA 8 17061 Depends what you're current inclusions are, but we're not including wardrobes and will just use second hand ones until we can save later on to get them built. Also have a… 3 11647 |