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

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Entries from January 2006

Plans in to Council

January 31st, 2006 · No Comments

With the help of the contractor doing the house lifting we have now submitted our preliminary plans to the Townsville City Council for the raise, restump and building in of our house.
Our plans actually have to go through Town Planning despite us pulling our garage under the original roof line, as I wrote about in [...]

Tags: Council · Planning

Painted - Lounge Room

January 31st, 2006 · No Comments

Continuing on with my series of before and after photos from us painting and moving into our new house here are some images of the Lounge Room:

Lounge Room before Tamara Left

Lounge Room after we painted and moved in

In the after photo you can see the halogen lights that we installed in both the living room [...]

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Painted - Dining Room

January 30th, 2006 · No Comments

As I wrote in my previous post “Surprise”, and Tamara wrote in the previous post “Why is there Donkey in my House?”, when Tamara was down in Adelaide thinking that I was just moving house I was also painting the main living area of the house. I had a huge amount of help from [...]

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Free LookHome Magazines

January 27th, 2006 · 1 Comment

You can sign up for a few free magazines from James Hardie Australia web-site.
You have to fill in a bit information, but in the end you should get a few free LookHome magazines for your effort, plus the usual free e-mails if you want them.

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