We started our renovation blog when we purchased our second house in Townsville, Queensland, Australia back in 2005.
Our house is an old traditional miners cottage that was built in about 1870 in the area around Charters Towers, in Outback Queensland, Australia. It was moved to Townsville around the 1930's to it's current location.
The house has seen a lot of renovations over the years, including our current renovations. The renovations that we have undertaken include:
- Raising and restumping the house
- Enclosing under the house
- Adding a garage
- Making an outdoor entertaining area
- Adding window hoods
- Adding Air Conditioning to the House
- Replacing the Bathroom
- New Driveway
- and lots more ...
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Recent posts
As I wrote in my last article we are currently looking at making our laundry into a mudroom. I included some drawing from my plans for the mudroom in the last article, but I am still looking around at other options, and seeing what other people have done for their mudrooms. Fine Homebuilding and Fine Woodworking did a “build off” from two of their contributors to build a mudroom bench. The results of both are pretty impressive, and go beyond what I am able to do and am planning to do for our mudroom bench. It was interesting to see the different approaches that the two contributors had. One of the contributors was a house builder and the other was a furniture and cabinet builder...
read more at Renovate Australia Posted 3 weeks 19 hours ago.
The door to our attached garage goes directly into our laundry room. It’s a decent size room so we are looking at making better use of the room by also using it as a family mudroom. We already have a decent size shoe rack in the laundry room since it is our most used entrance to the house (post to follow), so now we are looking at adding a mudroom bench and hooks. Since there are five of us we will be building in five different sections and cubby holes in the bench. The plan is to build the mudroom bench against the wall and then add the wainscotting look to the wall above it. At the moment we are still unsure about what we want to do above the hooks...
read more at Renovate Australia Posted 17 weeks 2 days ago.
On one of my previous posts about our Blueway Air Conditioner I have had quite a few people ask me about the error codes that people come across with the unit. Although we never had a problem with our Blueway air conditioner quite a few other people seem to have experienced problems. Here is the list of the error codes: E2 - Indoor temperature sensor failure E3 – Indoor pipe temperature sensor failure E4 – Outdoor unit abnormality failure E5 – Indoor fan motor failure df – Unit Defrosting I hope that helps the people who are needing them…...
read more at Renovate Australia Posted 17 weeks 3 days ago.