Posts tagged 'timber'

Balustrades on front steps

Last week, Mark has been working on the balustrades for the front steps.

Not quite finished yet, it's going to get a top board yet, but the balustrades are already looking great.

Check for yourself on the pictures.

Balustrade front steps 1

Balustrade front steps 2

Wooden ceiling in our bedroom

Mark has been working on the wooden ceiling in our bedroom. Even with some interruptions got it half done. Mark's shoulder is a bit sore now from hammering all these nails in up side down.

Wooden ceiling in bedroom

Finishing the wooden floor

We are back working on the house this weekend and have discovered a faster and easier method to lay down the recycled wooden floor board. In particular we have found a great method to push the boards hard against each other to leave as small a gap as possible. We …

First floor boards

P55

This weekend we have started putting the floor boards down in the Rosalba's sewing room. The recycled hard wood floor boards are incredibly hard and no matter how I tried most nails bent had to be pulled out again. So we have decided to investigate nail guns to fix the …

Front Doors

Rosalba and I went to the Sunday market in Chandler today to get organic fruit and veg as we do most weeks.

Design of our Entrance Doors

While strolling around looking for some laundry baskets we walked past this stall with beautifully carved solid wooden doors. There were some stricking designs on display, many of …