Love the Look

So thrilled to have been this weeks' winner in Carpet Court's "Love the Look" comp on facebook.

As you know, I really love the way my backyard is finally coming altogether, and it's nice to have affirmations from others .. especially when that person is Stacey Kourous !

I really had my fingers crossed on this one, as I was hoping to share as a happy follow-on from yesterday's panorama, and now I can!

And this is what it used to look like in 2007 ( top ) to present day ( bottom two )

I love my Greenhouse .. it's my little space where I can potter around, or dress it up in seasonal colours ( we Halloween it, we Christmas it, we birthday-it-up .. and it's still got a now-tattered Geelong Cats flag flying from it's mast from last year's Premiership season ;) .. I grow seedlings in there, I often just zone out in there .. it's quiet and pretty and peaceful .. no tele, no fighting, no demands for food .. i'm pretty much left alone to watch the changing light, pet a cat, watch a bird, or sit in that chair with a wine and survey my slice of heaven.



So .. would you like to win a $10,000 room makeover? ( this is the major prize from Carpet Court ) 

I know I would... that 1950's Westminster carpet .. goneski ... the 10yr old tattered rug that has seen better days .. oh, i've got 10,000 ways I could use that $10k, absolutely.

You can enter here: http://www.carpetcourt.com.au/current-promotions/love-the-look .. or pop right on over to Carpet Court's facebook page.. tell 'em I sent you ;)

Gotta be in it to win it!

x
Lea 

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One Project At A Time..

I'm too lazy to dig up any before pics, so you'll just have to beleive me ( or perhaps you've been to my place, or remember those past pics ) that the new backyard is so far LOOKING AWESOME !

OMG, I am so happy with this! The design came to me in a dream, and I awoke and quickly fleshed it out in a sketch, showed the bloke, conferred, got excited, and started to do stuff. It's gradual, like everything. We save for each bit ( be it pebbles, or plants etc ) and piecemeal it together as we go. We do it all ourselves, after work, on weekends. Ok, or he does mostly, and I bring the Coola Cordial and point a lot.

House Call

Archicentre came today.

Well, they sent us a very nice architect and his yummy drafting assistant. Mmm.
We talked about the future and we talked about the house. I showed him my amateur plans drawn up in "Paint" ( very techy ), but he was highly complimentary.

He *loves* the funky old greenhouse built from old doors and lined with printing plates, as I do. When I told A, he said "oh no!" in a head-slapping tone of disgust. The architect is a Taurean, like I am. We love quirky.

A. the pragmatic Aries likes things neat and properly done.
Quirky is for wives.