From the veggie garden...

So. On my 'things to achieve by 30' list is one item that sounds easier than it is - successfully grow veggies. The pictured carrot and one giant lettuce is the total yield of my vegetable patch to date. Is it enough to call the project a success? You tell me...

more daydreaming

I spend way too much time daydreaming about what my kitchen-to-be will look and feel like. So far I have decided that the walls will be painted a beautiful grey and the benches will be a grey and white marble. We'll eat our meals on beautiful Heath Ceramics tablewear.

And finally butter will be in a pretty pretty dish (go Anthropologie!)

The things I obsess over are really not normal.

graffiti

Okay, okay, obviously I was the perpetrator. Although I could almost get away with blaming it on the naughty local kids whose recent mischief has included (i) breaking into our car three times (ii) egging our neighbours' house and (iii) blowing up our garbage bin with a bunger. Looovely.

DIY graffiti turns out to be one of the unexpected boons of home ownership. Who knew? It almost makes the mortgage worth it.

Anyway, this post is really about our fabulous new window. As predicted the light it lets into the soon to be laundry and bathroom is excellent.

At the moment when you look out the window you see our garbage bins but one distant day this will be remedied and the courtyard will become a supreme garden oasis. Or at the very least maybe we can hide the bins somehow?

more brick action

It is a confusing day when you get home from work and an entire doorway has moved during the day. Suddenly temporary kitchen #1 has been transformed into the bare bones of two rooms (a small bathroom and a laundry) and a hallway flanked by an enormous window.

This current laundry, where I am standing to take this next photograph, will soon be demolished and in its place the final kitchen will be built. Look at what a great job the enormous window does of filling the hallway with light.

Okay, I exaggerated the progress a little. The window isn't actually in the wall just yet. But I promise you when it is put in you will be amazed by the light it lets into the space.

In other news we've had the electrician and the plumber in the house over the last two days, as well as a tiler come and quote on the job. No photos of any of this because pictures of dirt and piping are not all that riveting.

life is better with door handles

leave town for 5 days and look what happens

Once a room has been gutted it's hard to tell what it used to look like so I am going to try harder to include more 'before' pictures.

We came home from Brisbane today to find a frame put up separating the bathroom-to-be and a new hallway. Originally looking in from the doorway the room looked like this:

But now the hole where the doorway to the new bedroom will be is properly cut out. To orient you a little more, this hole is to the left of the bed in the 'before' picture.

The old window was bricked up this week and the space for the new window has been cut out.

I'm not entirely sure what comes next but I would put money on it including (in no particular order) the following:

1. Plumbing
2. Electrics
3. Gyprock
4. Window installation
5. Tiling

gimme

Rococo Stool from La Maison. It would look very pretty sitting at the end of my bed. More than slightly out of my price range at a $1185 but they are opening an outlet store on October 9. One day...