Settled in!

Well it's been a few weeks now since we have been in the new place. We have painted and painted, cleaned and cleaned, and tried very hard to make this house our home. Finally after many long nights and weekends we have done it. The house is looking good and starting to feel like we belong.

So stage 1 of our interior re-design is now complete and we are just waiting on the plans for stage 2 from our builder and architect. Once again, here are a few pics to show you how far we have come.

This is our entrance way coming in from front verandah. We threw out the old fabric chandelier, took down all the picture hooks and coat racks and added fresh paint & a new light fitting.. thanks Bunnings!

Before we moved in this hallway was 'clutter city'. It had furniture everywhere, an old run down linen press on the right and was just really shabby looking. It has some good features though like the width.. my friends say they are hallways for ladies with prams! This one connects the original house to the extension and through the arch is the open lounge room and access to the yard and rumpus room. Our bedroom is on the left and bathroom is on the right. The archway will be knocked out in 'phase 2' and the glass doors and windows will be moved further to the right to allow for the kitchen to be moved down here. I am not a real fan of being able to see straight through to the back yard from the front door which is the current situation. If you look closely enough you would be able to see our 'weed city' out there which is not so much of a nice view; and plus its bad feng-shui. It's the old saying "money comes in, money goes out"; but this will all be fixed with the re-modelling design. It works for now.

the 'backroom'. If you have seen the previous pictures of this room you would remember it used to have brownish cornices and cream walls. Our furniture is nice and 'cosy' back here... it only just fits in! Dining table on the right overlooks the back yard for now, it's not until we finish the shuffling of rooms and knocking down of some walls until we will have a proper open space for this. Our beautiful kitchen is being picked up and moved out here and we are closing off the sliding door to the carport. I took this photo standing in a spare bedroom which will also be opened up by knocking down the dividing wall and then this entire space will be big enough for kitchen and open plan lounge and dining. We don't want to do too much out here just now because it will all be knocked out soon... bring it on the demolition!