For every bit of work we have done, there has been the process of multiple quotes, dozens of early morning coffee rounds, and often many return visits to fix or perfect things. We have learned that nothing is ever easy and that the attention is always in the details. I am pretty sure the constant flow of tradies has kept our new neighbourhood intrigued. Here's who we've had to visit at the our house: Sparkies (about 60 man hours!) Plumbers Builder Tiler Wardrobe joinery Kitchen joinery Locksmith Painters Landscape architect Landscaper & gardeners Arborist Stump grinder Flooring layers Shutter installers Automated blind installers Internal handyman Concreter Brick layer Renderer Powder coater Plasterer Metal slat panel installer Kitchen appliance mechanic Brickwork restorer Glass door restorer Tessellated tile restorer Pressed metal installer Mirror/glass manufacturer Air conditioning repairers Random AirTasker assistance Not bad for a house we bought thinking that it "It didn't need too much work"!

Thanks Betty!

The stairs are solid Blackbutt, for the floors we used an Australian Oak Engineered floor

I love the interior , but personally I find the exterior 'confusing' . Basically the interior with those really interesting windows done in black instead of white , looks not only great , but period and presumably in keeping with the designers wishes , and lifts the rooms and focuses you . But to change the exterior of the windows to quite an insipid brown seems a strange choice to me . Charcoal would have looked great , or a bronzer brown or golder brown would have all suited IMO , but that shade does nothing . Was there a particular reason ? Slightly off subject -- I once did the concrete entranceway to a commercial building in a weird concoction -- a similar brown to your windows , with 3 or 4 different browns and even a golden hued brown applied using sponges while it was all wet , BUT also mixed in must have been 15-20kgs of steel 'swag' ( basically dust off the floor of my mates engineering business , we actually used a magnet to attract only the steel ) . It was rough as ( in several respects of that phrase haha ) but 25 years later , its still there , and has even more character as it has rusted and run over the years . I probably wouldn't do that on what seems quite an important house , or its windows , but the exterior colour reminds me of my 'experiment' .