Good Tiling vs Bad Tiling – More tiling pics

See the difference between the expensive tiler and the builders tiler when it comes to the tiles around the skirting board/door frames



Toilet / Bathroom / hallway


Hallway down to DD’s room


Boys bedrooms doorways – I love the detail and time taken to cut out those fiddly bits right where the doors meet.




Look at how neat his tile offcuts are

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Decorating ideas for my tween daughters room

My daughter wants to paint her room black! Black curtains black walls black everything! She is only 9!!

So we have come to some compromises.

I bought her this bedspread on sale in a single bed size


I am thinking of getting this frame from IKEA and putting a mirror in it, then putting it above her bed.


I have bought this material to make curtains


I also bought a black blockout shade to go underneath the curtains that she can pull down at night.

I was thinking of a light similar to this, but only 3 pendants if I can find it.


She has a bit of an odd shaped room (Bed 4), because her WIR is in the corner. So when you first enter the room you see this wall



She loves cats, so I am going to put some cat decals on that wall.


The floor will be a dark charcoal carpet, she wants a white fluffy rug on the floor! I am going to spray paint her single bed that is currently white black.

Should I paint her chest of draws white or black?

I want to have some colour in her room however, so I want to paint something purple. But I don't know what, and I don't know what colour purple. Should I paint all the walls purple or just the one her bed is against?

I am thinking of having her bed in the middle of the room against the wall that meets the rumpus room.

On the other side of the room I will put some floating shelves with her knick knacks on them.

This photo shows her WIR door closed and the bedroom door open


With the WIR door open, (and her hiding in the back of it)

Not Moving this weekend :(

So we are not moving in this weekend
I rang the tiler tonight, and he said there was a bit of a bow in our floor that he didn't expect so he has had to spend a bit of time making sure he had the right glue levels etc
So next weekend it is. However here are some tiling pics for you all.
Look at the care taken to cut around this skirting board (in our rental the tiles just go diagonally and they filled it in with grout)

Family area

Kitchen

Garage Floor finished!

We finished painting the garage floor and unpacked the tiles today. I meet with the tiler this evening up at the house, and he said "Oh I think I will be finished by the end of the week easy" So we are planning on moving in NEXT WEEKEND!

Crackers I have to get my bum in to gear!

Finishing of the steps with the first coat of paint


First coat of paint


First coat


Just started the second and Final coat




I will take another photo tommorow when we remove the paper

EDIT: We used the BERGER Aquatread system
http://www.berger.com.au/jetdry/aquatre ... _range.asp

Most other paving/concrete paints you have to etch the paint first. With this system you paint an undercoat first which the paint then sticks to. The colour is charcoal with one extra shot of black in it, a compromise between hubby and I.

We also unpacked the tiles

After 30 mins


After 1 hour




After 1 and a half hours




After 2 hours - finished






We laid a few about to see how they looked

Painting the Garage Floor

So I decided during the down time to paint our garage floor. Hubby wasn't to keen on the idea, but I bullied him in to it.

First though, our floor tiles where delivered on Friday. Now we have to unpack them for the tiler.






The garage paint is this new technology paint thing, where you don't etch the concrete with a brush and stuff, instead you put down this undercoat that the paint sticks to. So the undercoat.





We had a bit of undercoat left, so we did the living/dining room that is one day going to be the home theatre room. Since we are not going to be doing anything with this room for about a year, and just using it for storage, I convinced hubby to use some of the leftover undercoat here, just to keep the concrete dust down.





Kitchen tiles where grouted

Stop the Clock – 174 days

Front Door, down the hallway

Newly designated home theatre room. The SS made the great suggestion of just putting up thick velvet curtains rather then a door in the archway there.

Main Bathroom


Toilet

Little bit of extra tiling in the laundry - looks so good! I would never have been able to do that myself, see how they cut it around bench top


Welcome wagon - welcome basket - I know my hubby is just going to love the rolling esky - I just saw all the nuts and egg products in there!

Cool another hat for childcare!

See how shiny the bench top is - it almost looks like it is glowing.


And Finally the KEYS

Just had a call from the carpet layer - they won't be able to do the carpets till the 9th. Stuff it, I think we will move the weekend of the 6th regardless and have all the beds in the living/dining room and all the clothes and crap in the garage. Argh so frustrating.