This is the view from what is currently the main living area. I love seeing the iconic Paddington Water Tower across the way.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
From the battlements - to the West
Views from the front landing. The landing is pretty small, and exposed to the Western sun in the afternoon. It would be so nice to have a more substantial landing out the front, possibly with awnings to provide a little shade without interfering with the views.
Pink Palace
My Pink Palace. She needs some pampering, and a decent colour scheme, but she has solid bones, regal, soaring ceilings upstairs and lovely views from the battlements.
I am fairly new to renovating and DIY. Fairly minor dabbling previously, such as splashing on some fresh paint.
I have a lot to learn and a long way to go to make my palace shine like it deserves. But every good journey starts with an idea and some planning.
I will be using my blog partly as a renovation journal: to record questions, problems to solve or research along the way - and hopefully progress! The journey will be a slow one.
Comments, opinions or suggestions are always welcomed.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Porters: paradise for paint and wallpaper
Not only is Porter's Paints the most fabulous store I know of to feel inspired about paint and wallpaper, it happens to be oh so handy to my favourite yarn store, Tangled Yarns. So much colour and texture to inspire in such close proximity!
So I popped over to Porter's Paints after my regular knit 'n knatter session. I now have a shade card to help me make some colour decisions. I was never keen on wallpaper until recently, but some very nice wallpaper is making my rethink that view. Porter's Paints has the most lush wallpapers at the moment.
Our upstairs has the lofty ceilings and VJs that characterise 1930s Queenslanders. However, in the 1980s, the previous owners built in under in 1980s style: mission brown brick and aluminium windows. Tiles in very pale blue/grey. Not really sympathetic to the original character. However, it was solidly built, and I have hopes that we can improve it.
A few decisions to be made: Replace the windows with more traditional windows, or does it not matter so much because we want to keep the lower level fairly unobtrusive? To bag or render the exterior brick? To do the same to the interior, or use some of the brick walls as feature walls? Can I find a colour which will nicely complement the tiles, and still offset the mission brown brick.
Choices...choices.
So I popped over to Porter's Paints after my regular knit 'n knatter session. I now have a shade card to help me make some colour decisions. I was never keen on wallpaper until recently, but some very nice wallpaper is making my rethink that view. Porter's Paints has the most lush wallpapers at the moment.
Our upstairs has the lofty ceilings and VJs that characterise 1930s Queenslanders. However, in the 1980s, the previous owners built in under in 1980s style: mission brown brick and aluminium windows. Tiles in very pale blue/grey. Not really sympathetic to the original character. However, it was solidly built, and I have hopes that we can improve it.
A few decisions to be made: Replace the windows with more traditional windows, or does it not matter so much because we want to keep the lower level fairly unobtrusive? To bag or render the exterior brick? To do the same to the interior, or use some of the brick walls as feature walls? Can I find a colour which will nicely complement the tiles, and still offset the mission brown brick.
Choices...choices.
Friday, October 22, 2010
bobbing
A little like bobbing in gentle ocean waves. Little ups and little downs.
Little ups like cuddles from Alexander, then Alexander giving really nice cuddles to Xavier, then Kynan giving Alexander a kiss on the head. 3 boys being completely adorable and sweet.
Little downs: 5 minutes later they are all shrieking and pulling at each other. Xavier gets whacked in the eye by Kynan.
Little ups: Kynan running to the freezer to get an ice pack for Xavier, saying "Sorry Mummy" and "Sorry Xavier".
Little downs: frustrating attempts to dowload Microsoft Office and refusal to acknowledge our product key, which is valid because we have used it before.
Little ups: desperate to get word up and running on my lap top, because inspiration for a novel plot is flowing well.
I can handle the these sorts of life rythyms, with only occassional curse words involved.
Little ups like cuddles from Alexander, then Alexander giving really nice cuddles to Xavier, then Kynan giving Alexander a kiss on the head. 3 boys being completely adorable and sweet.
Little downs: 5 minutes later they are all shrieking and pulling at each other. Xavier gets whacked in the eye by Kynan.
Little ups: Kynan running to the freezer to get an ice pack for Xavier, saying "Sorry Mummy" and "Sorry Xavier".
Little downs: frustrating attempts to dowload Microsoft Office and refusal to acknowledge our product key, which is valid because we have used it before.
Little ups: desperate to get word up and running on my lap top, because inspiration for a novel plot is flowing well.
I can handle the these sorts of life rythyms, with only occassional curse words involved.
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Testing 1...2...3
My first attempt at blogging.
My paddock is a sadly neglected block of land in inner city Brisbane, with an old house filled with VJs and rooms desperately in need of a makeover. I share this house with 4 unruly noise and chaos specialists (aka my boys) and a poodle who most definitely does not like poodle hair cuts. Last but not least, my husband. Love you, S. Along with my boys, my passions are reading and writing (regency romance is my fave at the moment), knitting, and lusting after renovation shows and magazines. Hopefully my lust for renovation will inspire me enough to actually do some renovations of my own soon.
Passions in the Paddock is the title of a parody of romance novels - Aussie style. A bit of fun my sisters and I had. I loved the title so much, I simply had to use it for my blog.
My paddock is a sadly neglected block of land in inner city Brisbane, with an old house filled with VJs and rooms desperately in need of a makeover. I share this house with 4 unruly noise and chaos specialists (aka my boys) and a poodle who most definitely does not like poodle hair cuts. Last but not least, my husband. Love you, S. Along with my boys, my passions are reading and writing (regency romance is my fave at the moment), knitting, and lusting after renovation shows and magazines. Hopefully my lust for renovation will inspire me enough to actually do some renovations of my own soon.
Passions in the Paddock is the title of a parody of romance novels - Aussie style. A bit of fun my sisters and I had. I loved the title so much, I simply had to use it for my blog.
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