Hello,
After our return from the Alice, we moved to the farm. We wanted to do some renos and a bit of a clean up on the house before we moved in. We spent the next 5 weeks of quite a cold winter sleeping in our tent, in one of the carports. The weather was invigorating and we were both wearing a lot to bed including beanies and had a couple of blankets and doonas etc.
The house is an old workers cottage that has been edited many times over the years and is around 100 years old. It is wood on old tree stumps and has luckily survived without any termite damage. The house though is old and looks it in many parts. There has been a lot of movement in the stumps and so many parts of the house like the walls, windows floors etc are bent and curved. This off course only adds to the character of the house.
We have nice hard wood floors under our old stained smelly carpet so we planned to sand and polish those and paint all our VJ walls and ceilings.
The renovating of the house and the cleaning up of the farm and garden have turned out to be very rewarding but also extremely hard work and very time consuming. Everything has taken us longer than we thought and we have learnt so many new skills getting everything done.
A view of the kitchen and dining, note sickly yellow/cream walls, lino and dirty carpet, all remedied now.
The kitchen looking into the office.
The office, not a bad room except for the carpet
Kitchen, dirty roof and luckily ceiling fans throughout the house
Dining looking into the lounge. The carpet is gone now and the walls are painted, Antique white USA – a type of white, of which there are many.
The lounge with 3 patches of white we were looking at, all quite white.
Corinne, sugar soaping the walls pre paint.
Sanding down the walls to reveal a previous pretty blue/green paint.
Corinne on her trusty ladder developing her upper body strength with a lot of cleaning
We have a lot of beautiful old metal locks on the doors which we have removed and are buffing up.
Dirty carpet and trusty leather gloves, essential for not destroying your hands on all the nails and splinters and broken glass and other sharp stuff
A painted door lock in need of a good grinding and buffing
The gorgeous lino that was under the carpet. Under the lino is masonite and 4000 nails
The lino, quite old i would think.
Corinne painting the ceilings in the office. That is the roof access hole. I spent a day up there with the heat and rat poo insulating the roof.
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