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This page isn't a business or a "how to' blog it is just a chronological picture book of our renovation journey from tiling to repairing mud brick walls and re-imagining old furniture.

03/03/2026

Cats never allow barriers to stop them from sitting where they want to sit. Be a cat! 🐈

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Interestingly, we have never found cats walking on wet tiles a problem. Dogs are a different story. They are a little heavier footed and usually a little heftier in weight.

14/02/2026

Replacing Our Front Door has been a rather challenging project in our farmhouse reno, and it has turned into a bit of a saga. Catch the full story on our YouTube channel: Just You Watch Me Fix It.

Here is a link to Part 1:
https://youtu.be/NpUmocMRsNo?si=7EorcuPHeTOAH8o2

Here is the link to Part 2:
https://youtu.be/1kR9h98ud7Y?si=fof0KskgXFGzUPQG

Part 3: Goes public on 18th March at 4pm. Why not pop in and join in the action, ask questions and enjoy the journey.
https://youtu.be/KOjLq8RbLXQ

🙂👍

24/01/2026

MUDROOM CUPBOARD UPDATE:
One thing I have discovered and that is furniture flipping is not always as easy as it looks in videos on Instagram and Facebook. Maybe that's a good thing, as if we knew the challenges we would face along the way maybe we would never venture out! 😉

I had to seek advice on ways to remove this escutcheon. An escutcheon, I have discovered, is the thin metal plate, often decorative, that covers a keyhole. Something I didn't know before beginning this adventure. 😁 What I have also discovered is they are not easy to remove! At least this one wasn't, so I had to bring in the heavies (Philip, who has much more strength in his wrists than I do) to remove it for me.

The 'screws' removed were actually not screws at all, that's why they were impossible to screw out. They were I believe a sort of 'screw nail' designed to be driven into timber and to 'bite' in. They certainly have a 'bite', that's for sure. They had horixontal rings around the shank but no thread.

This was certainly in interesting exercise and one I can now chalk up to experience.

I hope this video may help others out there to tackle and win a challenge like this.

11/01/2026

Time to share my next furniture flip. This one is for our renovation and has take all priority over other projects at present. Stay tuned for progress.

Last night, we moved the timber for our kitchen into the house, so it will acclimatise before we start making our kitche...
17/11/2025

Last night, we moved the timber for our kitchen into the house, so it will acclimatise before we start making our kitchen cabinetry doors and drawers. This timber is Tassie Oak, and it is fiddleback. Even though it has been kiln dried, it is wise to climatise your timber in the environment in which it is to be used. This will reduce any future risk of shrinkage. Seeing there is an average temperature difference of about 13 degrees between inside and out in Tassie at the moment, we thought we would follow this advice.

24/08/2025

The kitchenette in the flat is finished! 🥳 We are very happy with how it has turned out. It is a Kaboodle kitchen which we fitted ourselves. The colour of the doors is Poppyseed. It is a dark grey, like charcoal. We used two different types of handles, k***s for all drawers and pull handles for all doors, both have a rustic, tarnished look that coordinates well.

I love the tiles! The floor tiles are very French, and the pressed tin look of the splash back adds interest without being too demanding on the eye. The window has dual blinds with a privacy screen and block-out blind. Despite this being a small area, it is fully functional with a microwave, convection oven, and a full-size refrigerator. The hot plates are induction, so as soon as you turn them off, this area can be used as additional bench space. The sink has a fitted chopping board, which also provides more bench space.

The bench top was cut in one piece, and this is where I take my hat off to my husband again as it was an acrobatic feat to manoeuvre it into place. He even cut it to fit around the sides of the cupboards (See photo 10). It had to be lower from the ceiling, from above the cupboards, but then it also had to be angled past the architrave on the window with only about a centimetre, if that, to spare when holding it at the right angle!

Bravo honey!

After much deliberation, we decided to paint the house as the original western red cedar weatherboards have seen much de...
21/08/2025

After much deliberation, we decided to paint the house as the original western red cedar weatherboards have seen much deterioration and little maintenance over the last 40+ years, and many need replacing. As western red cedar is expensive, we decided to make our own weatherboards from timber off our land and paint them all the same colour to hide the discrepancy in timbers.

We painted the flat area first. In photo one, the original weatherboards are still in place around the French doors, but the adjacent wall has the new cut weatherboards on it. You can't tell the difference between the two. Of course, we are still to paint the ceiling of the porch. 🫣

This colour is Tranquil Retreat. The white trim is, from memory, Snow Season. We love the feeling these two colours eminate, classy but welcoming. 🙂🥰

So much has happened since my last post! In fact, three years have passed. In that time, both my parents and my brother ...
16/08/2025

So much has happened since my last post! In fact, three years have passed. In that time, both my parents and my brother sadly passed away. My husband was made redundant, I suffered burnout after looking after my parents for three years, and finally had to quit my job. Life likes to throw you some doosies, doesn't it? Sometimes, I just wish it didn't throw so many at once. 😬

During this time, we have made some progress on the homestead. So there is much to catch you all up on!

The kitchenette renovation in our little studio flat has come to a completion. I will show photos shortly, but for now, I want to share these photos of the new weatherboards on the kitchenette. Philip made these weatherboards himself! He is so clever!!! He felled a tree on our property, sawed it into planks using his dad's mill, and then cut each plank on an angle to make weatherboards to match the western red cedar ones currently on the house. We then stacked them and left them to dry for a year. These are not western red cedar, of course. They are stringybark or tasmanian oak, but as we will be painting the house, it won't matter.

For a long time, the walls of the kitchenette, while lined on the inside, just had sisalation on the outside, which of course was exposed to the weather and last spring a precocious little shrike thrush decided to start pinching the insulation out of the wall for his own nest. That was all the prompting Philip needed to get on with the job!

I wonder if I can pay that same bird to peck at other parts of the house...🤔😆😉

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