Im buying another house...
 

Well trying too.

I put my place on the market and it sold in a week....gotta love an expanding city and money-to-burn developers.

I dont quite know what I want to do, location wise, so I am buying a decent sized investment home that isnt too expensive, so the rent will cover the payments after I am finished with it.

I am putting in an offer tomorrow on an older style 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, rumpus room and office home. Its currently owned by an older couple and it smells, looks, feels like an older person house.

Wish me luck

just take the moth balls out of the cupboards and it'll smell better. ;)

Sounds like fun Ducksy. Keep us posted!

Good luck with that Ducks!
I was wondering what you'd been up to. Nice to know it wasn't anything unpleasant or bad.

Congratulations, Ducks. Are you thinking of remodeling?

G'luck!

Be sure and take us plenty of pictures, please.
Hope it all goes through smoothly

Oust is very effective for smelliness...my mom carries it with her to combat hotel rooms that smell like smoke, she says it will fix a room in an hour or two. Check to see if you have a similar product?

http://www.oust.com/

Thanks guys.

Case - yeah, I will knock out the room between the two (?) bathrooms, the wall between the dining and living room, put a pergola/patio out the back and paint it non-old-person-colour.

Oh, 4yr MALE T-man is mighty impressed that his room is PINK!! That will change sonny boy.

Zen, work is crazy at the moment, life is too.

10 more days and I am on holidays in Perth...woo hooo

HM is a little too fond of Oust. I prefer to light a scented candle or ideally a cone of incense (got Frankincense going right now, my room smells like a church!) He will Oust (which he pronounces Oooost bizarrely) and I choke. I'd rather smell poo to be honest!

But yes Ducks, smells are easy to counter - I know my grandparents were not fresh air fans and kept the windows closed. Mum went in the other direction and taught me the same. Unless it is actually raining I open the skylight every morning while I am having breakfast and getting dressed, keeps the place fresh.

My new home...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1194412613.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1194412613.jpg

Old person bedroom

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1194412613.jpg

Lounge

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1194412613.jpg

Kitchen that needs some work

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1194412613.jpg

Dining Room

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1194412613.jpg

What will be the rumpus room. I will pull up the carpets and if the floorboards are good....polish them, but probably put down polished corks tiles.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1194412613.jpg

looks nice Ducks, congrats.

That's a nice looking home!

I think I can sense my Grandma in that house.
That is sooooooooo late-1950s Australia. Red tiled roof, weather-board walls, neatly trimmed lawn, even the picket fence... and inside, with the curtains and lights to match ... except for the kitchen which looks like it was redone in the 80s or so, if I visited I would wonder if I had fallen through a time warp.
I like your house, Ducks, don't get me wrong. It is pretty good already and has plenty of potential for modernising. It's just so ... so ... exemplarary.
Can I ask ... is there a shed out the back? Does said shed contain an old cricket bat, a non-working victa mower, and the remains of a portable barbecue?

That looks so pleasant, Ducks! Congratulations.

I love that, Ducks! It looks so cozy and warm, and the plants outside! Tres magnifique!

You mean ... "trees magnifique"?

Quit trying to stump me, you're going to get me into treeble. :bolt:

I see you've used the "leaf" smiley.

Keep that up and you willow me an apology.

Why you gotta be such a birch? With you at the 'elm, Ducks is gonna kick my ash for hedging into her thread. Fir crying out loud, spruce up your posts.

Wattle I say to that? Gum on, don't be such a sap, stop beechin' about it. I've been pining for some good puns. It aspen a while, and I'm worried about my poplarity.

Do you think black text is dull? If it were redwood that help?

Buckeye was just trying to cedar other side. You ginkgo back and reed that with your own eyes. People are sycamore puns. In fact, if cypressed them, they wood say "erase these posts." A nice ball of cottonwood do the trick.

I don't want to be arbor, but where olive there aren't many trees, so you're running rings around me. That's my privet matter though.
You maple more replies if someone else rose to the occasion.

I noticed this small place for sale

http://www.arranproperties.co.uk/pro...ear_bunker.htm
could be a bit small though :D

Congrats Ducks! The new house looks great with a tremendous amount of potential!

It's great Ducks, like the potential.
You didn't say which would be my room though?

Zen suggests it has historical interest. Perhaps you should keep it as it is and then coin it in as a tv/ film set in future...? Okay I'm joking, but with HM working in the industry he has stories to tell of kids inheriting houses where nothing has changed since the 50s/60s/70s and hiring them out because they have their own houses already.

Im in....kinda.

I have to have a HUGE garage (rummage?) sale at the old house.

I have some pics of what I have already done, but its definitely a work in progress.

Let's see, let's see!

Ducks, that place is great!! Congrats and keep the pics coming!!

You have a great looking house. So Cozy and the outside is charming :)

liking your tins... I collect them as well.

Hey Sky, they were the previous owners tins.

I dont collect anything as cool.

Rumpus Room....before
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...y/House004.jpg

During
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...y/House009.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...y/House011.jpg

Still wet
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...y/House028.jpg

Floor finished
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...y/House062.jpg

Kid's Rooms....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...y/House025.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...y/House019.jpg

Not finished, but better...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...y/House035.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...y/House066.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...y/House063.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...y/House040.jpg

Would of been nice if the desk had come with assembly instructions :mad:

This work was completed by my Mum, friend and myself :D

Very nice job on the rumpus room floor! That's a pretty tall doorknob on the kids' room, can they even reach it?

All the older style houses here have tall doorknobs.

The 5yr old can, 3 yr old cant, but he drags his chair over to climb on and we dont really shut doors.

I have to go buy some curtains today, 3yr old keeps waking up at 3am because of the street light and saying "Sun's up".

wow, ducksie - fantastic work.

oh ducks! those colors!

the last time i took acid, i had a very unpleasant time trapped in two rooms that were those two colors.

The floor looks great - how many coats? Aside from the lights, do the kids like the new diggs?

Bloody Hell, Ducks, you've been busy. That's awesome!

I'm a colour freak Jimbob.

Jinx - 5 coats.

Kids are liking it so far. I have to tell them not to scream like banshee's often though, they arent used to neighbours.

Heaps more to do

Beautiful, well done.

great job ducks! oh and no worries...the tins are just dust collectors nothing as cool as a rumpus room! :)

Looks good, ducks! You get the personal satisfaction that you've worked hard for it, and hard at it!

wowie, ducks---GRRRReat rooms! I love color, too. My living room is purple, den is green, my room is...I won't say. It's too embarrassing. well, ok-it's sorta rosy-pink. :blush: felt like the right color at the time but now I want it a different color--something to reflect my life's experiences: black. With a strobe.

anyway--awesome job. You're quite the Renaissance woman!

Lovely work, keep it up :)

I love the new updates. The best part of buying your own home is making it *yours*. Congrats!

The pics won't pull up - darn!
Congrats on the home!

Some updates...

What was the old person bedroom, is now my fav room in the house. The wallpaper feature wall is gorgeous, pic doesnt do it justice....its deep silver background with raised black velvet detail.

Bedroom

The kids lounge (rumpus) room with a new coat of paint

Rumpus

Current project is outside, have pulled down the old ratty fernery and will be turning into an outdoor dining area with sandstone paving....I think.

Wow. What a beautiful house Ducks!

Bah, photoshop. Can't be real, there's not a speck of dust. :haha:

I was asking myself, "Where's Case's picture?" when the next click took me to it. Wowo, looks even better in that setting. You have a lovely home.

Funnily enough, the rich fabrics and Christmas decorations automatically make me think it's cold there. I had to haul my mind round to the realisation that this is mid-summer :)

I love the decorating you have done with all the black, white and red. I especially love that black velvety wallpaper. I would be rolling around on the wall all the time if I lived there. Great job, Ducks. Oh, and I am happy to see where Jelly ended up. :)

Thanks guys :)

Will take some pics on Christmas day of the dining room set up and the outside before and after.

Case - I took a pic of that love heart painting I bought from the madart chick...she has some lovely items....oh and people are usually weirded out by Jelly :D

I love the madart painting! Maybe I will buy one from her.

You think you get weird reactions....you should see the reactions when people come to my house. Hehe.

"Should I be turned on by a dog?" is a phrase that has been uttered by at least 3 separate people as a response to a painting. I didn't want to hang it in my new house, for fear that people will think there is something wrong with me. Unfortunately, my husband got it hung right as we were welcoming guests for Thanksgiving. He gets a kick out of freaking people out, I guess.

Photographic evidence - PLEASE!
You have no idea what I am imagining.