31/12/2025
Sometimes you just have to ask..."why?"
This is my new project, and possibly my answer to the reason of my being. Throughout my life I have found joy, bliss and happiness in transforming gardens, homes and people.
My very first home in 1987 was a do-up and nearly 40 years later, this house is another.
My new home is a 1910 weatherboard home which has had some serious neglect and destruction. She has some great bones; press tin ceilings, wrought iron work, wide plank floorboards, high ceiling, brick fireplaces, original door hardware and beautiful roses & flowers hidden amongst the chaos.
She also has possums who don't want to vacate their home, 5 doves who are diligently waiting for their owner to return, holes in the ceiling, walls and floors, sloping floors, external rotten boards, half of the house is unliveable...but she beautiful to me!
While I wait for my builder to start, I am plodding around doing my thing, and one of the first things to do is to get some light in...now why would someone put weatherboards over a window? Yes! Two windows in the bathroom have been weatherboarded over...so random and weird. Anyhow, I pulled the boards off and found an old window sill and some trims in the junk yard (yes, this place has a junk yard too!) and with my trusty chainsaw, opened it up and sealed it back again. Why my chainsaw? Cause I can't find my power tools yet! That is on my list to-do-today job.
This is only a temporary job, new windows and weatherboards will be installed in the 'big plan'.
But today, I see the light!
