Renovate Australia

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

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Entries from May 2006

What to Know When Buying and Selling a House

May 15th, 2006 · 1 Comment

In my previous post Young and Naive I wrote a bit about our experience in selling our old house to Castletown Shopping World.
There sure is a lot that I don’t know that I wish I did know about buying and selling a house. A lot of what I wish I knew can be read in [...]

Tags: Buying & Selling

LG LX-M240 Micro HiFi System

May 10th, 2006 · No Comments

This weekend Tamara and I went out and had a look for a micro HiFi system for under $200. Our main three requirements were that it looked good on our book case (more Tamara’s requirement than mine), it had decent sound and it played MP3 CDs.
We tested out pretty much every system under $200 and [...]

Tags: General

House Concrete Slab is Complete

May 3rd, 2006 · 1 Comment

The concrete slab under our house was finished a while ago now, but I was a little distracted and haven’t posted the photos and update yet on this site.
Below are the photos of our new concrete slab. Tamara jokes that she has been looking for the gold in slab and hasn’t found it yet. It’s [...]

Tags: House Lifting