WARNING IT'S A LONG POST!!!
So Glen and I have found a new bargain place! The Dakabin Treasure market! It's AWESOME and why nobody told us about it when we were looking for furniture at the start of our lives in Queensland I'm not sure, but it's sure been awesome since we've moved into the big mansion we live in now!
We decided to go there over the weekend to look for a petrol can for the ride on (a 4 litre can doesn't cut it) and found that they were having a sale - not that anything there is expensive in anyway, but none the less they were having a sale so who were we to argue!
There's a giant shed that they keep all the stuff that might get ruined in the weather in, like bookcases, beds, tables, sofa and couches, piano's.... all that sort of stuff. Anyway there was a 3 piece 5 seater sofa set there that had a sign on it that it was $5.00 per seat on all couches that day.... BARGAIN. We picked up the below for a whopping $25.00... and I got a few bruises on the way... but that's pretty normal for me!
They're pretty comfy - can you tell?
A little faded in places, and i don;t like the pattern AT ALL, But i will get some throws and put them over it and DONE DONE DONE... and I get to go to my other favourite shop... SPOTLIGHT! YAY
On the way home the trailor got a flat tyre and the spare tyre was dead also... GREAT.
So we had a mad dash to find a place would sell us or replair a tyre... For anyone in the Morayfield/Caboolture area... Bob Jane are open until 4PM on Saturdays and Lindsay there is AWESOME!
So the couch ended up costing us $25.00 + $79.00 for a new tube and tyre! Still a bargain I reckon!
We moved the old Lounge into the kitchen/Meals/Family area for the moment. We've decided we don't like it facing that way and have a plan to move it around and make it face the wall, and we'll set the fish tank up there and/or a TV as well.
This is the spare room... the only spare bed we have in the moment while we wait to get our stuff shipped from Victoria. You can see we have some curtains in the house now. I need to hem them a little, but they look pretty good! We've also got all the blinds up around the house now too.
I don't know why but i'm really proud of the blind in the toilet. It was a really long blind and i managed to shorten it to the right length and I think it looks great!
I've finally hung and put away all the clothes that we own! You don;t realise how much you have until you stick it all in there and think... Man I thought that wardrobe was going to be SOOO empty...
Ensuite with the curtains. you can see their a bit long!
I've also spent a few hours in here put on grout sealer to try and protect the grout. lucky i love our shower soooo much.
And the feature tiles too!
Mum came to visit us over the weekend and we put her to work while she was here... i'm pretty sure she had fun though...
Glen picked up all the Sewerage Hoses so we could get mum mowing for us!
See the smile - she was having a great time and did really well... althought we might have forgotten to tell her how to reverse... so when she hit something... She just sat there trying to get our attention... I was a little tempted to leave her there a while longer....
... but Glen rescued her and got her going again.
Then when it was dark we got to work inside and started unpicking the curtains so we could hem them.. then I got a chuck of glass my leg from the broken window. No matter how much and how well you vaccum there always seems to be more!
Glen fixed one of mums work colleagues broken Iphones...
Then we worked some more outside to pick up the rubble and rubbish from the builders.
ahhhh.. then it was BBQ time! Glen marinated the steaks overnight and they were pretty bloody good!
the front of the house and we're starting to get grass now!
And we have a mailbox now too!
