Red Stovetop Kettle

Hubby rang all excited from Big W the other day "I think I have found you a kettle" he surely had, and it was only $20.

I love it, love it, love it. It whistles and everything. I've packed the electric one away !

The kids were sick on Friday, so I took the chance to let me fingers do the walking and find somewhere to get the kids towels embroided with there names.
So the new towels are up!




I also got a mirror for the frame for my daughters room. I will post a piccie of it up later when Hubby puts it up for me.  

I am off to Ikea to get a few floating shelves for her room so we can put the mirror up with a shelf under it.

Driveway

We had the driveway poured last Friday. We can't drive on it till this Friday. I can't wait!! Everymorning the car is cold and covered in dew. I can't wait to just be able to step into the car from what feels like inside the house.

So the mesh first




Then pouring the concrete - at 7.15am !!! The first photo was taken from the kitchen door looking through the garage before I went and got dressed.






And done


I wanted a stenciled drive with light grey brick effect on the outside, but because we where having the coloured through concrete that was charcoal they couldn't do the light stuff on top, so we had to go with a stamped brick edge instead.

Feature Walls and even more tiling pictures

But first - Water filter tap


Tiling - Front hallway


Other direction


Boys room


Pantry


Kitchen


Leading out to garage


Daughters room - We went with Dulux - Blackberry Sorbet




DS1 - Dulux - Watercourse Raceway






Our room - Dulux - Spring Sprout





Underlay in the study - they are coming back on Tuesday to finish


We are moving this weekend!! So no internet for awhile. See you all in the new house!.

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