Id have Raised planter boxes put in around the outside of our yard so my mother in-law doesn't have to spend hours on the ground with a bad back to do the gardening!..

Would love to see what the kitchen looks like but I think if anything the lounge needs lightening and not darkening as if I'm right, you have a dining table to the right of the photo where you would have meals. Does the kitchen area open to this table and room??? Not sure what the lights are doing over the tv but I would remove them and perhaps if you want some sort of new feature or accent colour, you could paint the wall behind the tv a nice charcoal grey and hang the tv off the wall and perhaps reposition the buffet somewhere else. However, if the lounge is "brown" in keeping with the other furniture you already have, which by the way is my favourite colour, then a charcoal colour won't go well, you would have to consider perhaps a deep brown like Dulux Beauty Spot and then maybe Dulux Hog Bristle for the walls and a nice white for the ceiling. I live in the country and will have a ceiling fan (no light) in most rooms to minimize use of the AC but if you don't need it, then a nice light fitting would look better. Perhaps a few more photo's of the layout of the house would help with other readers and their opinions of what might best work for you. If the kitchen is completely seperate from the lounge, then you can be different in this room but if you love brown or timber furniture, I'm surprised you went for black and white!!

We do a different 'Secret Santa'. Bring one present worth about $20 wrapped. Pull a name out of hat. That person can open 1 present. Next person's name to be pulled out can 'inherit' the already opened present or open a new one. If they 'inherit' then whomever they took the present from gets to open a new one. It is hilarious with everyone wanting to 'inherit' other gifts. Last year the most popular was a metal woodpecker garden ornament from Bunnings, this year it was a groovy front door mat with a cotton hammock and a metal drink container tub coming close behind.

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