Who else is renovating?

[hargrlynet]

Perhaps you would like to share your reno tips, pics, idea etc 🙂

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

I sort of am. My tip is, Don't

[i-need-a-martini]

We are always renovating.

Just finished a laundry and are building a slef contained flat for my son under the house.

Trying to redo the kitchen but haven't got organised yet. So a couple of weeks ago we temporarily painted the floor boards white (with paving paint) to freshen it up. Looks fab!

[hargrlynet]

LOL Bit late to tell me "don't" now    ..... We are verrrrrry slowly renovating our house   .... 

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

so are we, very very slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwly. Actually we are just trying to finish off what some other bozo started. Sadly we suck at it

[hargrlynet]

What project are you currently working on? We are working on the kitchen atm, bit by bit

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

floors 😞 

and I have a small room that needs plastering.

and the ceiling needs insulating

and the outside needs painting

and the skirting boards need nailing in place

and I don't have any funds

[hargrlynet]

Yeah reno's aren't cheap 😞  Ours is going to take a few yrs to complete, the main part of our house is around 100 yrs old and needs quite a bit of work.

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

we've been at it two years now.  It's about 50 years old I think, weatherboard on stumps on black soil. So it's constantly moving and cracking.

It's disheartening that plaster work done 18 months ago is now cracked and paint is peeling from the ceiling because it wasn't prepared properly by the tradesman we had.

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

I wish I could start again.

I would spend the few extra dollars on nicer carpet in the bedrooms, and I should have stood up to hubby more on some of the fixture choices. And I'd get a carpenter to make the inbuilt cupboards rather than the prefabricated type that I got. The bloke advertised as custom wardrobes, but they weren't very customised and costa ridiculous amount.