The Wonder Wall

We got an engineer in to assess the building - anything is possible “Yes we can take the wall out – yes it is load bearing” We just have to put this massive beam in to hold the building up. The engineer drew up some plans for us, which most builders can follow, so we recruited this guy we met at a wedding - Matt from Aquitane Constructions to come over – check it out and then chop it out... Check out the video on the right - it's Matt an Stu and their wonderwall..

Preparing for the Before and After!

I guess the key is to show a really crappy before picture and then finish it off with a stunning after picture!
Well, let’s just see how we go - I’m sure the really crappy before picture shouldn’t be that hard to achieve...!
The kitchen has been completely stripped... I’ll have to dig out the pics to show what the kitchen looked like before...but for now – it’s completely stripped... we were loving the electric wok to cook every night...and all the plates, cutlery glasses etc are all on the dining room table...hence a really crappy before picture!

Skirting - well worth it...

I’m actually surprised at how little skirting costs considering it makes the place look a billion times better... I think we spent something like $70 on bits of timber...then painted them with a sponge... then placed them against the wall – We’ve screwed some to the wall – but most of them are still just lying around. It’s one of the first things we did to the place – madness really considering we were going to knock out a wall - It’s called Vodafone no plans! Renovating blindly...

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