The Outhouse Gets A New Floor

In the quest to revive the outhouse and turn it into a relaxing living space, we had to tackle the challenge of the floor.  With my creative hat, the floor was lovely and textured, creating character however realistically it did not fit the brief of the vision at all.  It needed to be levelled because the idea was to add carpet and tiles.

Gig and I toyed with the concept of using levelling compounds that were on the market, but after consulting with a concrete specialist, we settled on a layer of concrete.  A challenge?  Yes!  Out of the question?  Never!

Before

Waiting for the floor to dry

From the front door

Add underlay and carpet!

The colour chosen is a greenish grey colour which was inspired by the wallpaper that I blogged about in RENOVATING HATE.

Happy learning peeps!

#pikitiaotera

For xmas I received a gift from my very good friend Sheryl Peters.  It was a memory jar, which basically is a large jar containing a couple of post it note pads, a pen  The idea is to capture a memory, then at some stage in the future, you open the jar and reflect back.  I thought this was such a wonderful idea!  

Over the xmas break I decided to introduce some innovation to my gift by creating #pikitiaotera on my social media accounts which captures the context of Sheryl's gift.  Why?  Firstly, I am not carrying the jar around with me!  Secondly and more importantly, someone told me that 2017 would be a year for opportunities for me, so I wanted to see just how many  moments I am able to capture ... using pictures which speak 1000 words.  Here's a snapshot of a few that I have captured.

 

I admit that I am not capturing a pic everyday, however I am enjoying the challenge.

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Happy living peeps!

 

Vintage Jelly Moulds To Vintage Lights Shades

I have a few vintage jelly moulds that I have collected over the years, which stems from my wonderful memories growing up with my grandmothers collection of catering equipment.  The idea with the jelly moulds was to make some form of lighting.  Right now I can hear my sister Deanne groaning about hoarding all my collectables :-)

The renovation of the outhouse gave the perfect opportunity to put this plan into action.  I found the right light fittings to compliment the overall vision of the project and with the help of my fabulous husband - Gig, we got to work.  We utilised the smaller moulds for the fittings on the ceiling, and the slightly bigger mould for the shade themselves.  Luckily for me, Gig is an electrician so with a few holes in each mould, he connected everything perfectly and I am absolutely thrilled with the finished product.

I have recieved a few comments about not having matching jelly moulds for both shades, but I don't really have any OCD issues with them.  In fact, non matching shades adds to the character of the outhouse overall.

Happy learning peeps!

Renovating Hate

Over the years of renovating homes, there's definitely one job that I have discovered I hate the most; stripping old wallpaper - particularly when the wallpaper I am stripping is wallpaper over wallpaper over wallpaper over more wallpaper, which is painted.  Eeeek!

Imagine the horror when I announced to my husband that I wanted to wallpaper the back wall of the outhouse, with not just any wallpaper, but with vintage wallpaper.

The wall itself wasn't that big, so I figured that I would only need about 4 rolls of wallpaper.  I hunted high and low for the right design, then found what I was looking for on trademe.  An old interior design business was selling all their stock for a great price.  I ran the design past my husband Gig, and hit BUY NOW!

It is not quite everyone's cup of tea, but I think it looks wonderful.  Although the wallpaperers were not that impressed. 

Starting to go up .. believe it or not, this is over an hours work!

Finished Product .... 4 hours later!

With the painted walls and carpet

  
The photos do not give the wallpaper justice as the colours are beautiful which gave me inspiration for the rest of the decor for the outhouse.

Happy learning peeps!