Hey all,

I've finally got something to post here.

My partner and i have recent taken possession of an original 1950's Weatherboard home in Ringwood Victoria. The house itself has had no work done to it other then a wall removed to open up the lounge room and dinning room.


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We have a lot of work ahead of us in the up coming months. We've got a heap of things we want to do with the place, ie new kitchen, new bathroom, rip all the masonite and replace with plaster. Insulate all external walls.......... and the list goes on.

One of the things listed on the building report was the fact that the front picket fence was been eaten away by little buggies so we decided to replace the rotten pickets. The problem with that is each picket we took of we found more rot, basically every time we took something off we found something else. In the end we pulled all rungs off and all pickets off so all that was left were the posts and plinth boards.

So far three sundays of work done, demolition, the slow, sand and prime and then rebuild. We are now over half way done, its just a matter of putting all the pickets back on and then paint it the final colours once my partner has decided on a scheme.


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So as of today have some piccie for you.


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There will be plenty more updates over the next 6-12 months. This is an epic start and its all up hill from here on in but looking forward to it!

Cheers folks
Armers

Welcome to the renovation rollercoaster!
Looks like a nice tidy little place.

Looks good...I like the entrance arch thingy...I have to build one of those when I get time...also rennovating a 50's weatherboard...have been for 10 years,
I like the idea of the seats in the arch...a little different.

Time for an update... its been a while but then again been busy.. Time to update you with some new photos of the newly finished fence!

I'll just give you the photos for now.


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This was finished in 4 sundays with myself and my old man + painting by my SWMBO... cost about 600ish to restore it rot free + paint it to its awesomeness that it is today.

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Armers

As well as the fence being finished, we had an Architect come in last Friday (20/11) to come in an check out the place. Basically we've got this:


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We're looking at extending the back of the place where it says dining out roughly 4mtrs to create a 4x4 meter room to dump the kitchen... now that is the easy part of the work to be done... The hardest part is working out what to do with the WC Bathroom and orignal kitchen as all we needed to fit into that area is a Bathroom and Laundry. Hence getting a drawing man in to help us do what we want with the place.

Ok since i've not shown you guys / gals what we've got to work with i'll give you a quick run down to the house....

We'll start where all the action happens! Master Bedroom, here we're moving that far wall in slightly to make a BIR the entire wall, removing the boards to save for the new kitchen extension, replacing with yellow tongue to later be carpeted!


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Since we leave the Master BDR i'll give you a quick piccie of the hall.


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There is plenty of work to be done in the next room, which is the bathroom. This room will give up a little space to make way for the BIR for the 2nd BDR. We'll also close off the WC where it stands to make it a seperate room to the bathroom. So as it stands inc WC;


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As you can see in the following photo we've got a little bit of a leak in the wall. Ya seen when the orignal HWS in the roof was disconnected they just capped it off in the roof space. Over the past couple of years the cap has since created itself a leak and dribbled back down it to the wall cavity. We've since has it cut under the house and capped under the house. We pray theres not a lot of damage.


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From the bathroom i'll show you the orignal kitchen which will be removed and replaced with a bathroom and laundry, how we're going to use the space we're not too sure yet. Hence getting in a drawing man to help us out with the spaces.


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Through into the Loungeroom and "Dinningroom"... as the area from the "dinningroom" will be extended out to create a new kitchen i'll show it to you as is for now.

First photo is from Dinning to Lounge:


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Second photo is from Lounge to Dinning, this it the wall that will be knocked down to cater for the new kitchen, that is all going well.


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As you can see a lot of work a head of us... We're going to get the internal work done before we extend... at this stage the internals can be done without the help of a professional. I've got a lot of help with family to get this work done, once that is done then we'll get the extention done + roof + kitchen + ..... hmmm sooo much to be done!

I think that is it for me for the moment, little bit of a rest for for now untill the drawing man brings back some sketches then we'll go from there...

So for now

Cheers
Armers

Bloody great job on the fence...if you carry that standard of work through to the rennovations it should be fantastic...garden looks good too...keep us updated.

Hey,

The fence is looking pretty neat! I saw the floor-plan and wanted to do some sketch up of it. So I gave it a go. Let me know what you think? thanks,

SWMBO here,

Awesome sketch up. What did you use to do it? I've tried programs that are free on the net but they all suck (or I'm just no good at using them). We're thinking of something similar to this but a few random changes here and there.

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Kat

I'm surprise that you are going to all that effort and not adding another bedroom. From a capital gain point of view that's the best way increasing the value of your property.
From my experience you can modernise as much as you like but it only makes it easier to sell, not so much increases its worth.

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What Bleedin Thumb said is quite right. I have had a look at google maps of your house and i did a plan that should fit on your block. (yes i remember seeing it on the market, I live in The federation Precinct of Ringwood.) this Plan includes a second bathroom and another large bedroom. Oh and i just use 'Paint' I think it is a Microsoft program, you can find it in your programs section under accessories.

Not bad Archi....but the fridge hidden behind the food prep bench won't work and the bathroom's entrance behind all of that is too pokie.

I would form the 3rd bedroom north of the covered deck with a small study where you have # 3 bedroom now that gets rid of the desk in the lounge which will clutter the look.

I haven't bothered looking at the property on google earth so this may not be feasible.,,,but I never let reality stand in my way.

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Hi guys,

Third bedroom would be all well and good but Google Map looks are deceiving! (And so are Philip Webb floor plans). We have worked out that if we extend four meters out from the dining room to make a kitchen, we run into the cubby house so that clearly has to go. We also want to put a single carport at the back of the block which limits space as well. As much as I LOVE the idea of a third bedroom Bleedin Thumb, it just isn't feasible with this block of land. The other half has just told me that we only have 450 sq approximately.

I'll also give my own floor plans a go using "Paint" archi-wanna-be! Hopefully I'll be able to give you some better ideas of what we're aiming to do.

I'm starting to enjoy this whole forum thing!
SWMBO - Kat

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Sundance,
Up would be nice, but we're a little strapped for cash. This also, in time, will turn into an investment property We hope to rent it out 3-8 years time. We're going to go for a target market of professional couple, I mean we're walking distance from the station + 25mins (no traffic) to the city and walking distance from a major shopping center.

We've also had a look around at various places near us and what they've done with their houses, so we kinda know how much the place will sell for once we play with what we've got. So we kinda need to stick within that price range too!

Either way it should be good, we're still not majorly set in our ways we'll see what happens with the drawing man gets back to us!

Good to see some response from you guys too! Thanks!

Cheers
Armers

Another free application for drawing is OpenOffice (OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite). The Draw component allows you to set your scale, do dimensions, have multiple layers, etc. It's about 150Mb download or you can generally get a copy on the PC magazine cover discs.

Cheers,
John