Last weekend we decided to call into spotlight to check out the prices of curtains and blinds etc for the house so we could organise some blinds and see how much they were going to cost. Little did we know that they just happened to be having a clearance on some of the blinds that are no longer being made anymore and those coloured blinds just happened to be the colours we were after! YAY for us!
The finished product.
Our bargains... you can see the bright orange clearance sticker... Well most of those were further marked down. We got 210cm x 210cm blinds for $7.50.. BARGAIN. We've decked out the whole house with blinds and they only cost us about $200.00 for all the blinds. Then i found some curtains that were on sale and picked up some of those to finish the rooms off... YAY. Spotlight has become my new favourite place to shop and Orange stickers are my absolute favourite!
This blind cost us $2.00....
and this one cost us a whooping $9.00
I got all the blinds ready to be installed. Some of them needed to be trimmed down a little to fit some of the windows and I have become exceptionally good at trimming them down with the venetian blind cutter that we bought that cost us $5.00... more than some of the blinds!
While I trimmed the ones that needed trimming Glen put them up. Turns out I can't reach the tops of the windows to install them!
In the front rooms of the house we bought some chocolate blinds to offset some of the beige brickwork etc. They were also on sale. This is the one in the computer room after it's been installed. I will take some others when it's daytime but this is all I have so far.
On Thursday October 28th Glen and I went to another spotlight to go and pick up a few more blinds after work. We got home at about 8.00PM after finding more bargains and I did drag Glen around all the store to look for orange stickers to see if we could find anything else we needed that was on special...
We we got home Glen and I were bring in the curtain rods and blinds and stuff we bought when I heard Glen say - We've got a broken window... I was sure he was joking... but i went rushing in anyway.. and sure enough... we had a broken window in the lounge. Man was I not impressed... my first thoughts were... how can we have a broken window already - we've only been in the house not quite 2 months, then I was thinking... we can't even get a glazier out here to install a doggy door. How on earth are we going to get a window fixed... and then.. who did this!
The Window
The culprit! I sent Glen next door because with all my CSI skills we were able to work out that the rock looked like it had come from the neighbours yard... So Glen trudged next door to check if they'd mowed before I went and knocked on the neighbours doors to ask if they'd seen any kids throwing rocks.
Turns out the neighbours had been mowing and a rock decided it wanted to come and play in our house. YAY! We like visitors! Once we knew what had happened it was onto checking with the insurance company to see if id signed up for a window replacement on my policy or not... I hadn't and silly me i remember thinking... nah I wont get that. What are the chances I would need a new window straight away in a new house... DOH! Anyway the insurance company were really helpful and said O'Briens would come to any location nation wide...
We tapped up the window - on the box was from the bargain kitchen stools we bought! Thanks fantastic furniture!
Shards of glass make cool patterns
The visiting rock.
The mess
So I called O'Brien and they came out the next day. The guy spent a grand total of 30 minutes installing a new window in the frame and that cost $321.00.... All my money saved on curtains went to replacing a piece of window 70 x 140...
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