Family room – for the whole family
The French doors open on a sunny afternoon When we designed the floor plan of our house, we planned for one large family room (kitchen/pantry, dining and living areas) in the centre of the house, facing north. On one side of the family room, there are the children’s bedrooms, bathroom and study area, and on […]
4 1/2 years on
Our beautiful valley Well, it has been 4 1/2 years since we made the move to Tasmania. I can’t imagine living anywhere else, even if I contemplate it sometimes. This weekend has been a productive one at our house. The front garden received a healthy dose of mulch. I am continuing to add plants to […]
Rendering – take 2
On Saturday we had the gang back to work on the render of the south and west sides of the house. It was another long day, but the results are excellent! Perran was on the spray pump. He needed a helper to turn it off and on and at various times that was Monte, Miranda […]
Rendering!
It’s a bit exciting! After over 2 years of living in the house, the final coat on the outside of the strawbale home is being rendered! Our house has been covered in pink plastic mesh for so long that looking at my non-pink, rendered home brings a tear to my eye! The render looks brown […]
Treechange Tuesday
If I was to pack up our life again and move to a new state, I would be more confident. I am so happy with our choice. Any doubts I had were a waste of time and energy. I feel like I have the best life I could live and I feel like we are […]
Treechange Tuesday: size matters
We often suggest that it could have been a wise choice to start off with a smaller house, and then extend more rooms once we were settled. That way, the build would have taken less time, which means less time in the cabin! It would have been quicker to get completion if the house was […]
Treechange Tuesday: toilets
Yes, well, probably not a title you thought you would see on my blog. We have two of these toilets. In hindsight, we only need one. It’s a really good choice for our main toilet because we did not need to worry about plumbing in another basin in ‘the powder room,’ and of course the […]
Treechange Tuesday: electricity
Monte and I have often mentioned that if we were to do this adventure thing all over again, we would put power on our property before doing anything else. Instead, we lived without electricity for over 2 years. It was very very hard. We had solar power, but it was not enough to run a […]
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