Uyenvy Le, your food looks superb! Is that first cake a pavlova? I'm a chef and I tend to go for big flavour and rustic presentation that looks rather average when photographed. I have major food photo envy. I meditate, garden, pilates, sew, and obsess about home interiors. I almost always have a new food obsession- new recipe that I'm working on or a new technique I'm trying to master. I love making brunch. Pain perdu with ricotta

Tiles By Kate, Manly Vale NSW. Just up the road from my house. We bought our beautiful blue glass splashback tiles there.I sometimes wander in just to look at the beautiful tiles even though I'm not in the market for any at the moment. Check out instagram and website. Photos below from Instagram..

Norma, sometimes people have no choice! That old saying might apply here of "If you haven't got something nice to say" ...... Anyhow - Love love LOVE this bathroom, good job guys! If I had have seen it before I started mine, I would have ripped some ideas!

"Why do renovations take so much longer than promised?" It's actually unrealistic to "promise" a timeframe on a renovation, simply due to the nature of them. Any timeframe contracted practically is a guide only for these projects. The good/experienced builders will manage expectations well by building in a significant amount of contingency in their scheduling. If all goes well they'll bring the project in sooner. If it goes bad then there is capacity to still bring it in on time. There are so many unknowns and unlimited options of how to go about resolving issues that crop up in the course of a renovation. Anyone going into a renovation needs to understand they are a completely different type of project to say a volume build, which is a tried and tested product that can be delivered for a fixed priced in a relatively fixed timeframe. Renovation are customised in nature and hence involve a different dynamic and a different set of expectations. Sorry to hear bout your frustrating experience. Best of luck with the project completion Cheers PD