Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Our House”
After living through the dusty hell of having every wall in our house re-plastered and finished, I can hopefully be forgiven for being a tiny bit precious about putting holes in my new walls. The difficulty I have with hanging stuff on the walls is further compounded by the fact that the walls are all concrete, I can’t actually go …
I don’t know what a confit vessel is, but I do know that a mustard {er…. CAMEL} vase was exactly what my bedroom needed to balance out the blue accents. I’m pretty sure I could furnish my whole house at Freedom, my lounge is desperately needing one of these and $800 to pay for it. Back to the vase; at …
Sometimes I catch myself only posting pictures and NO content. Other times I post content that has zero personality and zero personal tidbits. I’m fairly sure blog-readers like personal tidbits, if you didn’t you would read newspapers and memoirs of aircraft engineers instead. So. Now that I have just bickered with my husband for 10 fucking minutes about the build …
There is an antique shop in Kumeu that I have been driving past for the last 4 years. I have even parked outside with the intention of going in then thought twice and kept going {I have a silly paranoia about going in to 2nd hand and craft shops that are otherwise empty and feeling obligated to buy something because …
Ahh the joy of a house without window coverings and the condensation it brings. At least it’s pretty right? Healthy, meh. That’s Dad on the window sill, hi Dad! Today we paint Ethan’s room. Thank god. He has been sleeping in our bed this week (Dave has been relegated to the floor) and I have never been kicked so many …
Things are happening! Yesterday was about as good as a Monday gets, or at least better and more calm than last Monday. We can now find our clothes, shoes and television! A good 35% {I would say} of the interior plastering and painting has been finished, our room, our lounge and office, toilet and bathroom are all freshly painted with …
So busy. So tired. So stoked. We have; Pulled out the old front fence (Dave and some lovely rugby dads did this two days after we moved in!) Cut down some trees Had a new front fence built – gate still to come Had the old hidden gutters torn down and new gutters and fascia installed Purchased all new interior …
I was completing a survey tonight and at the end I finally got to answer the question that has been plaguing me for years. We are now living in a home that we own. I can’t even begin to describe how monumental that feeling is for Dave and I. Since I came home from the states five years ago with …