Hello my little readers!!! If you thought I had thrown a match into Agent36 and moved on with life away from the constant grime, noise, blood, sweat and explosive domestics that are renovating…you’d be wrong. I LIVE FOR THIS SHIT.
I’m just really really slack. Like, a totally terribly person. I’m very ashamed.
I will have a bunch of posts coming out soon to showcase what we have completed in the last few years (yes, years) since I posted - can anyone say new bathroom & ensuite??
So what prompted this return to my award winning blog, you ask? A complete exterior and deck renovation of course!!!
Some of you may remember that our house came complete with an enclosed sunroom when we purchased it. Here are some purchase walkthrough photographic masterpieces to jog your memory....
For the next few years, we used this area as an indoor dining room, complete with a Tim-built dining table made from recycled wharf timber and an old crate as a bar.
Over time, the deck suffered some small-ish issues, like disrepair and rotting joists...ya know....small inconveniences really. We shut up the room for a few months until a builder friend came and replaced the hazardous timber underneath.
Tim and I often talk about how we once had plans to sit on the back deck and drink wine, watch the sunset and talk about all the good things in life. I suppose we do that sometimes, if you replace the sunset with netflix and talking with scrolling instagram (the wine stays though).
We've always felt this space wasn't quite the best it could be. Once it started needing repairs, we decided (I suggested, Tim disagreed, Tim suggested, I whinged that it was my idea first & refused to discuss, I suggested and Tim agreed) that the sunroom would be better as it once was in a previous life, an open deck.
Thus the demolition began.
I love nothing more than destroying things and this day was no exception. We started by dismantling the sliding door onto the small back deck, discovering in the process that this sunroom was built on not hopes and dreams, but fucktons of silicone and liquid nails.
Once we had exhausted our crude vocabulary yelling at the door, it was time to tackle the floor while we waiting for reinforcements in the form of Tim's brothers & their mate Tyler.
The black lino that covered the sunroom floor was 2 layers deep, and hid masonite flooring boards and black plastic. After some serious whinging and almost crying (surprisingly from me not Tim), we managed to get the flooring up and throw it down into the backyard (with an obligatory yell of YEET with every throw).
Once the brothers & Ed Sheeran* arrived, they smashed out removing the remaining windows and the rotten fridge insulation panels that were serving as the sunroom roof. I paid them in homemade pizza and banana bread #wellpaidslaves
In true Tim form, we didn't just set out to restore the deck. Oh no, of course not. I finally gave in and gave my approval for Tim's lifelong (6 year) dream of cladding our house and having our tired roof restored.
James Hardie Smooth Scyan Axon Fibre Cement Cladding - laid horizontally in (colour yet to be determined)
Garage door painted in Monument
Roof restored and painted in Basalt
Downpipes and guttering repainted in Monument
Windows trimmed in white
To keep costs down, the cladding will only be applied to the parts of the house that are visible from the front yard / street. We will be painting the brick on the lower level of the house where the workshop is, and the back and rear side.
A big project to be sure - one that will test the strength of not only our reno skills, but also our marriage (does anyone know a good lawyer? asking for a friend just in case)
I know you all love a good timeline, so here goes!
I will have a bunch of posts coming out soon to showcase what we have completed in the last few years (yes, years) since I posted - can anyone say new bathroom & ensuite??
So what prompted this return to my award winning blog, you ask? A complete exterior and deck renovation of course!!!
Some of you may remember that our house came complete with an enclosed sunroom when we purchased it. Here are some purchase walkthrough photographic masterpieces to jog your memory....
Looking back from rear of sunroom into what is now the loungeroom
Looking towards sliding door into study
For the next few years, we used this area as an indoor dining room, complete with a Tim-built dining table made from recycled wharf timber and an old crate as a bar.
Over exposed photo to make it look appealing
Over time, the deck suffered some small-ish issues, like disrepair and rotting joists...ya know....small inconveniences really. We shut up the room for a few months until a builder friend came and replaced the hazardous timber underneath.
Tim and I often talk about how we once had plans to sit on the back deck and drink wine, watch the sunset and talk about all the good things in life. I suppose we do that sometimes, if you replace the sunset with netflix and talking with scrolling instagram (the wine stays though).
We've always felt this space wasn't quite the best it could be. Once it started needing repairs, we decided (I suggested, Tim disagreed, Tim suggested, I whinged that it was my idea first & refused to discuss, I suggested and Tim agreed) that the sunroom would be better as it once was in a previous life, an open deck.
Thus the demolition began.
I love nothing more than destroying things and this day was no exception. We started by dismantling the sliding door onto the small back deck, discovering in the process that this sunroom was built on not hopes and dreams, but fucktons of silicone and liquid nails.
Once we had exhausted our crude vocabulary yelling at the door, it was time to tackle the floor while we waiting for reinforcements in the form of Tim's brothers & their mate Tyler.
The black lino that covered the sunroom floor was 2 layers deep, and hid masonite flooring boards and black plastic. After some serious whinging and almost crying (surprisingly from me not Tim), we managed to get the flooring up and throw it down into the backyard (with an obligatory yell of YEET with every throw).
YEET
Once the brothers & Ed Sheeran* arrived, they smashed out removing the remaining windows and the rotten fridge insulation panels that were serving as the sunroom roof. I paid them in homemade pizza and banana bread #wellpaidslaves
In true Tim form, we didn't just set out to restore the deck. Oh no, of course not. I finally gave in and gave my approval for Tim's lifelong (6 year) dream of cladding our house and having our tired roof restored.
The deets:
James Hardie Smooth Scyon Axon Fibre Cement Cladding - laid vertically in MonumentJames Hardie Smooth Scyan Axon Fibre Cement Cladding - laid horizontally in (colour yet to be determined)
Garage door painted in Monument
Roof restored and painted in Basalt
Downpipes and guttering repainted in Monument
Windows trimmed in white
To keep costs down, the cladding will only be applied to the parts of the house that are visible from the front yard / street. We will be painting the brick on the lower level of the house where the workshop is, and the back and rear side.
A big project to be sure - one that will test the strength of not only our reno skills, but also our marriage (does anyone know a good lawyer? asking for a friend just in case)
I know you all love a good timeline, so here goes!
- Dismantle deck CHEEEECK!
- Start cladding the side of the garage - this weekend
- Roof restorations by the professionals - next week
- Continue cladding
- Paint cladding and brick
- Dismantle the old green decking and lay new merbau decking
- Paint posts and add railings and cables
- Patio roof erected by professionals
- Drink wine and eat cheese on deck to celebrate
The adventure continues this weekend so stay tuned for more updates (and some long before drafted blog posts about the other rooms in our house!!)
*not actually Ed Sheeran
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