About Me

Lots of people are aware of the funny idiosyncrasies of the Australian language...... a common tip for visitors keen to sound like a local, add an “o” to the end of each word, a ‘servo’ is a service station, rego is the car registration, the bottle-o is the bottle shop and reno is renovation. We are renovating our home, in other words, “we’re doing some reno’s”! This is our attempt at a blog, a way to describe the journey of the reno’s, an extended tale that's taken us from our little flat near a beach in Sydney, to our little miners cottage in Melbourne, come to think of it... we might call it the “reno blogo”.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Skip to 2 .5 years later....

I just read the last post.. yikes has it really been that long? It's probably been closer to 3 years ago... So what happened? Well we finished the little beach flat in Sydney and moved to Melbourne and bought a "miners cottage" a nice way of saying a "small long & skinny brick house" in Northcote, North of Melbourne.... and the "reno's" have started again.
Perhaps it takes 2.5 years to truly forget the pain of the last renovation?
Nevermind, it's too late now, the house is bought, the banks are happy and we are knee deep in a sandpit in our living room, so there's no turning back, we must press on...

So... this little house in Northcote is a miners cottage originally built for the foremen who worked at the local brickworks, we're not exactly sure of the timing but it would have been built really late 1800's or early 1900's, we do know that the brickworks business in Northcote was booming around the 1880's. Let's have a look at some pics of the house...









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