Renovate Australia

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

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Entries from May 2008

Townsville Housing Market Starting to Slow

May 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Townsville is finally starting to be hit by a housing market slowdown in the last few months. There are fewer enquiries to purchase homes and what has been a sellers market is becoming a buyers market. Sellers are no longer able to set their price and not bother with negotiating, they now need to set [...]

Tags: Buying & Selling

Painting Progress Update

May 24th, 2008 · No Comments

About six weeks ago I took a week off to paint, thinking that I would be able to finish most of it that week. Well, I didn’t even finish the undercoat that first week, it took me three weeks to do the prep and undercoat!
Well, I’ve continued to paint in the evenings and weekends and [...]

Tags: Painting

How to Hide an Ugly Box Air Conditioner

May 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Box air conditioners are everywhere here in North Queensland. Almost all of the old Queenslanders have been fitted out with them and box air conditioners are an inexpensive way to add air conditioning to your house.
One downside to box air conditioners is that they are ugly looking things, especially if you can see them from [...]

Tags: General

Easy Garage Storage Shelf Solution Finished

May 20th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I put up my cheap and easy garage storage shelf a few weeks ago, with plans to finish the shelf off with a bit of timber along the front and side of the shelf. Here is a photo of the finished project …

As you can see, I added the timber trim around the outside of [...]

Tags: General