Extensions: Planning and Dreaming

After living in the house for 7 or 8 months and working out what was needed and drawing up plans and ideas it was time to get some professional help in. When we had our energy assessment done we had used Tony Butters from Lateral Drafting in Launceston. We decided to approach the company to [...]

The Owner Builder Magazine

In November last year we made contact with Lynda from The Owner Builder magazine explaining what we were aiming to do. She thought it would be a good idea if  TOB followed our journey for a few issues.
We have had some good feedback from the exposure in the first issue February/March 2009 and are looking [...]

Door dreaming. Transforming hollow core doors.

 

 
All the doors in the house are boring flat plywood hollow core doors painted with a variety of  acrylic paint colours from baby blue to puce. YUM !!
We looked at replacing them with a set of older doors but finding enough interesting doors with the right measurements could have taken a lifetime. Then it came to [...]

New thoughts on wall insulation

In the middle of January 09 as our thoughts turned to renovating the next bedroom we had a minor revelation!
The original thinking of removing the plaster and lath walls to insulate and then replace with plasterboard was time consuming, expensive and a job that I certainly did not enjoy. It was time to revisit the [...]

New Plans for the house!!

 
 
 

 
Well finally after much searching on the web I found a software package that I could afford, was simple to use and didn.t take hours to download only to find that it wouldn’t work. So I got to work to redraw the house plans as the last ones were done using a mix of Publisher [...]