Changing of the seasons

We have been pretty busy enjoy life the last few weekends and not rushing to work all weekend, but we have managed to get some work done on the spare room.

Yesterday we undercoated the room, so it's ready for cornice next weekend and maybe a coat of paint. Our aim is to have the spare room completed by the end of October which is totally achievable. Aaron wanted to have it all done in the next two weekends, I laughed. Completely do-able if he isn't starting work at 3am.

Aaron also managed to get the architraves on around the door and and also undercoated them in the spare room and also the bathroom. We have one final coat on the bathroom door.

We still need to buy the toilet roll holder and hand towel hook, we will do that this weekend coming. Then we are done...with the bathroom!

Not very exciting images for you this week.

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Jackson loving his walk and play on the oval

Wall undercoated

Supersoaker

Hello spring! 

This weekend we started on the spare room. We threw up the last wall in the house! Woohoo! And we started to plaster the wall.

We also took out the windows in the spare room to have them dipped.

The rest of our time was spent looking for bathroom accessories, looking at wallpaper and having a massive spring clean. We got rid of so much stuff. All the tools have moved from inside the house, which is super exciting for me.

In the last few weeks Aaron and I competed in Tough Mudder, a 18km obstacle course designed by British Special Forces. Which was great fun! (I still can't believe I did it and had a great time). It also has left me with the toughest obstacle a terrible cold which keeps hanging about. Aaron also celebrated his 28th birthday! We had a great weekend catching up with friends and family and going out for a lovely dinner to celebrate.

It feels great not having to rush this last room and do things at our own pace and be able to go out with friends.

For the rest of the year our aim is to finish the inside of the house and enjoy our summer and save for our honeymoon.

We have the spare room, windows and final coat of paint in the kitchen and lounge to finish and the pantry and hallway.

Things are looking amazing and I can't wait to see the end result.

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We had to sign our lives away to compete in TM

MUDDER TRUCKERS

This is the electric eel, water and electricity

All fun and games

18km complete!

Someone loved the fact that the last obstacle he fell in a pile of mud

Recovery dinner

 

Aaron's birthday cake, chocolate brownie cheesecake

Chocolate brownie cheesecake

Trying so hard to keep his eyes open

All insulated, ready for walls

All done

Fathers day breakfast!

Plastering

I Got the Feelin'

Flash back Friday!

Look how far we have come. From what we can work out is maybe a 1970's bathroom, to what we called home for over a year and now. Just the most amazing transformation.

I do have to thank Aaron so much for last week, working 12 hour days and coming home and helping me to put the cornice up, grout and clean the grout from the tiles, all when he really didn't want to.

All the late nights got us in the position to be able to pretty much finish off the bathroom by Sunday.

We were lucky enough to have a public holiday on Wednesday and Aaron finished off most of the electrical.

So all we have left is painting the architraves, door and finishing the LED lights.

I'm sure you all would agree its just beautiful. What an achievement.

We are going to have a few weeks off, Tough Mudder this weekend and then spending time with friends.

Spare room starts in September. Our aim is to finish the house by the end of the year.

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How the bathroom looked when we bought the place

mmmm lovely

Beautiful

Once we removed all the asbestos

Our lovely bathroom for over a year

Aaron hanging the cornice

All done

Grouting is a fun job!

Clearly

First shower in the new bathroom, wasn't really what we had expected...ha!

Painting the cornice and ceiling

Jackson didn't want to move, so I had to put the ladder over him

Late night painting

Vanity

Screwing in the vanity

Sad to say goodbye to our old friend

Getting there

Siliconing the bathroom

Sunday night

Shower screen on

Everything in

Waiting for the bus

 

All done on Wednesday night

Something good

At 11pm on Saturday we had nearly finished tiling, all but 2 little half tiles. We ran out of glue!

So that sucked!

Sunday we finished tiling, hazah! It looks amazing!

Ready for cornice and grout during the week, I'm being hopeful that its all done on Sunday evening. 

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All muddy on a Friday morning - best way to be

Shirts I made for tough mudder

Tiling begins late Saturday arvo

Working late into the night

Someone looks like a poodle now

11pm on Sat night - no glue left

Last tile

All DONE!