“Mary, Mary, quite contrary how does your garden grow? With silver bells and cockle shells, and pretty maids all in a row.’ I thought I might surprise you with a follow up on our garden now that we have been in our new home for 10 months. It’s amazing how fast this time has gone! […]Read Post ›
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 6,000 times in 2015. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people. Click here to […]Read Post ›
Hi followers, As this blog draws to a close I’ve decided to start a new one which will focus on cooking in my new dream kitchen! 🙂 Would love it if you could join me in the kitchen. https://debskitchenblog.wordpress.com/
It is hard to believe that we have been living in our new home for 6 months! We are well and truly settled and are enjoying the rewards of living here. Our builder organised for some professional photos to be taken of our place which I thought I would share with you. This will be […]Read Post ›
Spring is here and don’t you just love it! I am a ‘warm weather’ girl, and I just love this time of year. I’ve certainly got a spring in my step the past few weeks and resumed regular early morning walks along the beach front…. AND we are swimming in our gorgeous pool with the solar heating […]Read Post ›
We are starting to feel very settled now and we are down to one or two tradies a week finishing off those little bits and bobs. My focus has now turned to the inside and I have began to add those finishing touches. I decided that we needed a little bit of green inside the […]Read Post ›
The landscaping has been finished and I am very grateful to our landscaping team who made it a very easy tansition. Our home has been transformed by the beautiful green, green grass and the lush green plants. It never ceases to amaze me how a little bit of greenery can completely change an area and […]Read Post ›
The framework and reticulation for our vertical garden has been installed by our landscapers (landscapeswa.com.au). I started to randomly place our Ikea pots with my trial plants on the frame to get a feel for how it will fit together. I have spent the last couple of days potting new plants and herbs to go […]Read Post ›
Along our eastern boundry fence we will be installing a vertical garden. The low kitchen and scullery glass splashback windows will look out on to this garden. I have no doubt that this vertical garden will be a learning curve and we will be constantly adapting and growing with it! The concept/design of this was done […]Read Post ›
What a difference a pane of glass makes! Our temporary fencing was dismantled and our new frameless glass fence installed. This process was far more involved than I had realised with lots of measuring and drilling to cut out cores of aggregate for the posts to be fitted and then the heavy panes of glass […]Read Post ›
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