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A home improvement blog about renovating our Queenslander house in Townsville, Australia

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Entries from November 2005

House Lifting and Restumping Schedule

November 30th, 2005 · 1 Comment

What I thought was going to be an easy process looks now like it will be taking a lot longer and be a lot more involved then I thought. Here are the steps that we are going to have to go through before the house is even enclosed under:

Architect still needs to complete the [...]

Tags: House Lifting · Planning

Replacing the Upstairs Windows

November 29th, 2005 · 1 Comment

We are replacing four older windows upstairs windows with new ones. One of the windows that we are replacing is an old timber double casement window that doesn’t quite work right anymore.

We are replacing that one with a single casement window that will match the double casement that the previous owners installed next to [...]

Tags: Planning · Windows

Our Back Yard

November 29th, 2005 · 1 Comment

I am really looking forward to moving into our place and for our son to have a good back yard to play in.

In our previous yard I have not been able to grow grass, so it’s nice to see a lot of grass already in this place. We’ve already cut the garden back a [...]

Tags: Gardening

Photo of the New House

November 27th, 2005 · No Comments

Here’s a photo of the front of our new house.

It’s on a 500 square metre block with about a 12 metre street frontage and around 40 metres deep. It’s a lot more usable that our old yard was, even though it’s actually 100 square metres smaller. It’s got a great back yard that our [...]

Tags: General