The new lounge is very close to being finished. Just a few touch ups and we're done. New lights and a fan were fitted yesterday. Air-conditioners were fitted in the lounge and bedroom a few weeks ago (just in time for a stinking hot summer again). We've added new skirting, cornice and a picture rail. Sanded, prepped and painted.
We've cut a new doorway through to the kitchen which has changed the whole feeling of the house. What was previously quite a dark kitchen, is now filled with light and we have a wonderful breeze blowing in through the new front doors. We will barely need to run the air-conditioner hopefully.
Not long after we moved in (a few years ago now), we learnt that the breezes comes from the front of the house. We often found it much cooler sitting out the front than out the back. Thus the reason why we decided to open up the front of the house and create more of an entertaining area at the front. Plans are underway to build an additional roofed structure on the front of the house, in keeping with the gable style, that will give us that entertaining area as well as protect the new front doors/louvres. We will also be adding decking and new landscaping to make it hopefully a pretty awesome space.
So, for now we plod on with the finishing touches for the lounge room so we can move everything out of the old lounge. We can then start on room number 2, the new main bedroom!
We might take a bit of a break over Christmas (which seems to have sprung up on us again).................. maybe :)
p.s. In late October, Tilly had 6 ducklings hatch successfully. Their cuteness only lasted about 2-3 weeks and they now look more like less cute mini ducks. I haven't managed to work out males from females yet - that should come soon when their voice breaks and they start to quack. Well....the females will quack. The males get more of a low squeaky noise. The males also get a curl in their tail feathers (but that won't happen for another month or so). They will all be going to new homes but might wait until I can sex them.
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| Still a work in progress but the front of the house is starting to look more completed |
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| New porch light to replace the horrible 70's yellow glass one |
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| Newly fitted in the lounge - LED downlights, a pendant light in the corner (knicknamed 'the fishbowl') and black fan |
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| Tilly's brood freshly hatched and very cute |
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| Tilly's brood about 5 weeks old and not so cute anymore |
