Last week we visited the Kellyville Homeworld Display Village again as we haven’t been there since a year ago, wow. Most houses and builders were still unchanged.   We particularly love looking at the landscapes especially those with a small pond at the back or front yard. I love the idea of having a pond [...]

One of the biggest regret we have on our house is not planning for a garden shed. Right now, the lawn mower and every other gardening or DIY tools are stored in the garage, making it a terrible mess and absolutely impossible to park a second car.   We often considered about putting in a [...]

I remember the time when we had to choose from a myriad of different tiles at the showroom in preparation for the finishing job in our house. It was mind boggling trying to grasp the different kinds of tiles.   We eventually chose the type known as a porcelain tile which has a flat, smooth [...]

When you have a home, you start to take note on how other houses are decorated. The frontyard landscaping, the kind of lawn, retaining wall, plants and much more. These you normally notice during the day.   Eventhough we are satisfied with the progress of our house (I think we’ve completed all the basics, anymore [...]

We got a nice surprise after we arrived home from the airport on Feb 13th. We saw that part of our frontyard was all dug up. Pathway was in the making with sand filled in A few days later, concrete was poured and left to set Pathway all set and safety barriers removed and dug [...]

We finally have a pathway although unfortunately it is on OUR side of the street! We are still unsure if the other side of the street will get one too – only the Council knows. I’m happy because it means that we can now take walks without needing to constantly be on the lookout for [...]

Lazy people need water sprinklers Here’s ours in action. We bought this from Bunnings Warehouse for about AU$25. Sways to the left Sways to the right Note the brown grass in the above two pics which were taken weeks ago. The grass has since grown greener as Spring is approaching. Extra lazy people like us also [...]

Here’s the continuation of the lawn story. Our biggest regret was declining help offered by hubs’ colleagues (we thought it’d be an easy job shifting the soil but by the time we realized what hard work it was, it’s too late to ring them up to come over as it was night time!) as well [...]

Here is our method to keep the area around the water meters free of weeds and looking a little prettier First we use the excess bricks from our house to form a square boundary (no cement needed). There are two water meters per household, the pink one is for recycled water. To prevent weeds from [...]

The local Council planted a tree at the frontyard of every house. We are eagerly waiting for a pedestrian pathway and I wonder which side of the road will it be built on. Hopefully not ours! Note: The house pictured is not ours (I wish though!) but of our adjacent neighbour, I meant to show [...]

Sorry that I haven’t had much chance to visit most blogs lately. Thanks to all who have very kindly tagged me. I will surely check them out soon. I will also reply to comments to my previous posts a little later. Been tired and busy. Here’s why … It’s 11.20pm now and I just hopped [...]

Phew! Back breaking day for us both, more so for my guy! Ordered 8 tonnes of top soil for the lawn this morning. Pushing the wheel barrow filled with soil from the frontyard to the backyard was no easy task. I only managed to help a little by using the rake to spread the soil [...]

Kiwi G decided to weed the frontyard once again (for the umpteenth time as the weeds kept growing back). We’re waiting for the back fence to be erected (depends on when the back neighbour is ready to do the fencing as it is the law for immediate neighbours to share the cost of fencing). Below [...]

Finally, here are photos of one side of our house. The greens on the garden bed looks thriving! Unfortunately they’re just weeds! A closer view of the thistle on the right photo – looks nice with purple flower huh? More weeds! The only section that hasn’t got weeds growing is this (photo below) where Kiwi [...]

Photos of our backyard. I have marked our boundary in yellow lines on the photos. The double storey house adjacent to our backyard has just been completed which means we will be getting our back fence erected pretty soon .. yay! Even the two neighbours beside that house have been eagerly awaiting the fences. Once [...]