It's been awhile...

I've been busy yada yada yada, working, kids, friends, babies, weddings yada yada, renovating, but blogging has definitely taken a back seat. So this post will show a lot of progress i'm sure. I can't even remember what we have done since the last post, but the house is definitely looking a million bucks (it may have cost just under this to renovate it aswell). So last i left you i think we had put up back stairs and started to paint Mst 8's room. Well we finished his apple-green room

We also wanted to see how we could paint the exterior of the house, being aluminium cladding and unsure if the total prep would be enough of an undercoat so we painted the side of the house and thank god something went our way and it held up and looks great. So of course that is about as far as we have gotten with that. Oops no i lie, i have undercoated the front of the house but am yet to venture up the scaffolding again to pain the thing. Soon, my dears, soon. My Dad replaced all the rotten wooden pallings around the front of the house and we painted those as well. My sister helped and was unable to use her hand for 3 days....amateur :P

I got a visit from the electricity company asking if they could take down the safety cover off the cables connected to the house yet, seeing as how the roofers had finished. I asked nicely if they could come back next week, then got right onto nagging the hubby about those last few pesky palms in the front yard and if we could pretty please cut them down before it was too late. See ladies nagging does work.

Then of course in Curse Rigby style. We had a big rain and the downstairs flooded. This would have been ok (not great but ok) if we didn't have all our furniture, boxes and belongings down there just sitting in an inch of dirty rain water. ARGH!!! So the 'moving in' phase happened rather quickly and undignified. Mattresses were being blow dried by my friend - on her birthday no less. Furniture was being lugged up stairs, thank god hubby had put in the good ones by then. We both had to take a day off work just to get it all up, dried and cleaned up. In a small way it was a blessing as it gave us a kick up the ass and we had to get the inside of the house moving in order to unpack or move boxes around. So hubby got the wooden floor boards sanded and oiled.

I got stuck into the gapping and painting and managed to get our bedroom and Miss 10's bedroom completed. Which was a feat in itself. Her room had a lot of termite damage, so hubby had to replace wall boards, and we came across a few botchy jobs from previous owners that tried to either conceal or fix damage. Then the painting was a nightmare as the undercoat was beading and wouldn't paint onto the walls properly. A few phone calls to my friends dad and we had that sorted, then there were so many different angles and we had wardrobes, lofts and windows, 2 shades of paint, my second painter was coming on 8-9 months pregnant and it was probably the hardest room to paint so far. But we got it done in the end and my little princess is happy.

Painted our front entrance/door which hubby hates and my friends think looks like a hookers door but i LOVE IT! So it stays!

Our library is underway. Wall papering with an old 1960's American Dictionary i found at the op shop. It was hard to cut out the pages and even harder to decide which side to show and which to hide, but i'm happy with the results so far

My friend had her baby - so adorable - and her Dad came to visit for the birth, the same friend who's Dad is a painter. YAY! This amazing man, painted my kitchen, pantry and entrance way. I have no way to repay his kindness and hard work except to praise him in cyberspace and say ThankYou!

Today we cleaned down in the bar area and man cave. And of course found more damage to be repaired. So....... To Be Continued....