Pimp my House

Why tell the story?

You know I’m slack on details….

My biggest regret about our move out to Brisbane 5 years ago (apart from not having bought Annabel another one of those rocky chair things!) is that I didn’t share the story as it happened. Ridiculous regret I know (apparently I was a…

Jack up a house?!

It’s 4 years since we bought 85 Besham Parade, with the full intention of knocking it down! The random responses we got (especially from the Brits) gave us a giggle — not the normal thing to do when finally buying our first house! Well we gave her a little facelift to make her liveable and…

One more trailer load

We thought we could stay in as they lifted the house — technically it’s possible. Obviously on the actual day of the lift we’d have to be out, but we wouldn't have to empty the house, just pack away the really fragile stuff. But, as the project got bigger, a couple of stages turned in to…

She’s Up!!!!!

Massive day — our little cottage is about 4m higher than it was this morning!

Half a dozen shirtless blokes, a massive jenga kit, bit of lube for a sideways shove (by hand!) & half a dozen car jacks…what could possibly go wrong?!

The hole-y floor boards…

One of the beautiful things about old Queensland homes is that they were built out of local timber, and they ran these gorgeous hardwood floor boards from one end of the house to the other in gorgeous straight runs of gorgeous craftsmanship. Ours are unusually skinny, hugely varied in…

Watch live (well… in fast forward…)

Not sure if I’ve posted this already or but here’s the link to the YouTube channel with Andy’s time lapse camera videos. A new one will go up each week (after Andy has snuck past the construction fence to climb a tree, plug in his laptop, download the images, stitch…

Plenty of light

The roof came off today, the roof came off today, high ho the fibro’s gone, the roof came off today!

We had a fibro roof, yes of the asbestos variety. It was filthy, looked dreadful, and was probably not the best for us, nor our garden with the rainwater running off it.

Banks again…

As we start sweltering in the rental as the temperature starts getting hotter and our house keeps being empty, tempers were a little on the boil last week. We lost the whole week’s worth of build time because a piece of paper sat on the desk of someone at the bank. Enough said.