Thursday 7 November 2013

Shelf + Mantel + Revisited

With this project being all consuming for the majority of 2013, we are doing the happy dance that our living room shelving is now complete - and looks amazing.  Darrell is particularly happy - now he can move onto the next project on the list (he said - not).

Just a few finishing touches to go...

Custom designed, built & installed Shelving - built around Mantel

Living room love

Monday 12 August 2013

Shelf + Mantel

The finishing touch for our Living Room was to design and build the custom made storage shelving around our fireplace and mantel.  It is quite the project - from conception to fruition, and whilst not completely finished it is taking shape beautifully and will serve us well.  With my Design and Darrell's Fruition - this is what we have come up with thus far.

Carcass being built



Shelving being fitted



Shelving fitted & painted







Carport Makeover

 
Not necessarily the most glamorous part of a home, but the carport serves to keep us and all under it dry.   And now our does too - thanks to it's recent makeover, which included a fresh coat of paint in keeping with our chosen colour scheme.

Darrell removed the old broken leaking roof and the hanging hessian  - all to be replaced with Colorbond in Bushland (our roof colour choice), and clear panels to let the light in whilst still keeping the weather out - win win! - and of course the much needed guttering and voila.  We now have a functioning and aesthetically pleasing carport.


New Color Bond Roofing



New Roofing - Side view

 
Carport - Painted and re Roofed





Back to the Front

Can you believe that this is my first finger to key on the Blog in 2013?  Now that is not to say that there has been no progress in our country abode, albeit slow.  We have in fact painted the pillars that last appeared in their burnt back state - paint ready - however photos of these are still to come.  Sometimes we get so carried away with the progress we neglect to capture it on film (or rather on phone these days).

So the progress that we have captured is the Front Yard - where cobbled bricks & mortar have replaced slabs of cracking concrete, and new hedging has replaced crowded and struggling English Box - we think it is a big improvement.

Pathway prior to new brick work & hedging
 
 

Pathway - glammed up with new brick work and hedging