week nine

A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.

This week our long awaited annual leave finally came around, we'd originally booked a week off although due to lots of changes we ended up with a long weekend. Our original trip to Esperance had to be re-planned as spending 8+ hours in the car each way with only 4 days off didn't appeal to either of us. Instead we booked a farm stay near Albany, we had no phone reception and no wi-fi, but instead had a suitcase filled with cameras and boardgames and a fridge filled with yummy, local food and drink. Unfortunately we only had one full day of good weather, but luckily on that one day we'd already planned to head to Little beach in Two Peoples Bay (about 20 minutes from Albany) which is where this photo was taken. Despite the bad weather- and loosing our Go Pro to water damage at the end of the trip, we really enjoyed ourselves- I'll be writing up some more blog posts about Albany and our farm stay soon!

What have you been up to this week?xo

week eight

It doesn't matter how slow you go, as long as you do not stop

Life goes on (brownie points if you sung that a la noah and the whale) and so does the never ending bathroom renovation, anyone who plans on renovating top tip- take time off work to do it! If you've missed any of our bathroom design /inspo etc. you can check out all my bathroom posts. I finally found a feature tile I loved and it's now up and all the plumbing is done on that wall (just waiting for the vanity!). Next weekend we are off to Albany to escape for a little while, but until then the boys made sure the bath works so I have a mini escape after a hard day at work! I've also decided to sign up to an 8 week challenge with a local personal trainer duet, so can't wait to see how that goes- hopefully it's the kick start I need to get back to chasing my fitness goals. 

what have you been up to this week? What do you think of our bathroom tiles?

xo

week seven

Adventure is worthwhile

My friend Jas needed a roadtrip buddy to head down to Eagle Bay, which is one of my favourite places in Western Australia, by chance I had the day off so instead of sooking around the house looking at all the work to do I met her at 7am ready for a roadtrip. She had to visit someone so left me with her car for a couple of hours, I drove to the beach and took a wonder with my camera and was so fascinated by this photo as it uploaded to my computer that I knew it would be my photo for this weeks project 52, I just adored the depth of field and all the different textures.

After getting home from Eagle Bay, Dan and I drove down to Perth city to celebrate the final weekend of Fringe World and spent the night at Citadines on St Georges Terrace (blog post coming soon!). House wise, not much has progressed thanks to Dan working 10-12 hours most days and my lack of ability, however he's finally sorted the lighting and put up the cieling and the shower should be installed early next week, yipeee.

week six

It's all systems go to get the bathroom in order, after a disastrous attempt by Dan to take some leave from work (the agreement was to work 'on call' but he then got 50+ phone calls each day). I finally decided on a feature wall of tiles and managed to pick up some plain white tiles from a guy on facebook who had surplus from his owner build (his house was inspirational). It feels terrible that there's so little I can do to help, so I've focused on trying to plan the rest of the renovation and have spent most evening I'm not at work sorting through boxes and trying to make the habitable rooms feel more homely. 

week five

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

Our lives have been completely consumed by renovation but it feels as though nothing is progressing. We've lived in the house for two weeks now without the luxury of a shower (thank goodness we got the bath hooked up) so I've been heading to the gym and to friends houses to wash my hair, I never thought I'd miss having a shower so much! I have so many house pinterest boards and magazines from IKEA and bunnings piling up on the coffee table, but still cant decide exactly what I want which is annoying as we are very very quickly running out of time for me to choose tiles and colours and fitting for the bathroom. 

We realised quite quickly the importance of still taking time for ourselves whilst renovating, so the dog beach has been our sanctuary! It's so lovely watching jess run up and down the beach chasing waves. She loves her new garden which is about 4 times the size of the old house. 

How has your week been?

xo

week four

(although it's week six...oopsie!)

We left week three with the keys to our first home!
Week four we both took a few days off work (over Australia day long weekend) and got to work planning our renovations, we smashed out the old bathroom and tiles through the laundry and I made a little make shift laundry with some shelves that were left in the garage. I cant wait to get some time amongst the renovations to sit and upload some blog posts with ideas and photos!


xo

week three

it takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home

Short but sweet for week three, we finally settled on our first house!  Our amazing real estate agent met us quickly late one evening to give us the keys and a bottle of wine with a lovely welcome home card. I can't wait to show you all the photos of our home, all my inspiration for decorating (now we finally don't rent and can paint walls- yay!) and to document our renovation journey.

xo