And just like that, our house is officially for sale! FINALLY. But it was so worth waiting to list it. It took us ages to get everything we wanted done here, basically because we had asked the same painters to paint our other house first. Worth every single cent... I actually cannot get over what a difference a fresh coat of paint did for the place! I love it so much - and only now do I realise how gross the previous colour was! Yikes. It all just looks so fresh and airy and I am so so happy.
The photographer actually told me not to worry and that the house looked beautiful! Thank you Julia and Hayden for the staging experience with your house last year!
The blue strip looks perfect with the freshly scrubbed gutters - thanks to Doug.
So fresh, so clean.
(For my own future reference - paint is Dulux Manorburn - full strength)
With our beautiful theatre completed in the renovations
(Painted in Taubmans Knight Grey)
Cool side story - we own the blue bird cushion displayed on the bed - but it is at the new house somewhere not easily accessible, so I borrowed the exact same one from our lovely neighbour, who pushed her blue and white floral arrangement into my hands as I raced out the door. It looks perfect!
I'd also like to call special attention to the full length mirror. It is the only one in the house and hangs on the wall - which we bought and hung. How does anyone live without a full length mirror. I would love to know! Anyway... we took it down while the painting was being done and stashed it safely (or so we thought), but Alex managed to knock it over and it shattered in the frame. Just what we need, 7 years of bad luck when we are trying to sell our house. Haha. So that is a brand new mirror purchased specifically for the sale of our house. We will not be taking it with us, as all the wardrobes have mirrored doors. BUT the worst bit was, Ikea no longer stock the exact one we had, so after searching unsuccessfully on marketplace for a couple of weeks we had to go and buy the closest thing they had - which had different hang pieces on the back and we had to get my dad here again to hang it. He was less than impressed - as was I when I finally found the right one, two days after this was hung. Ugh!
Oooooh those new bathrooms. Perfection! Maddie is furious that we are moving to a house with old bathrooms. It's too funny for words. But Doug has assured her that it won't be too long before we redo them at the new house.
I am obsessed with this pelican painting from mum and dads house. I told mum I needed to borrow it - and now I have told her I'm keeping it. Let's see how I go haha.
That afternoon light is perfection. I am so in love with these photos - that I almost want to stay.
I've been over at the park cutting pieces off the olive and cumquat trees to give it that little something. I love it. I also, all of a sudden love the splashback in the kitchen that I have hated the whole time we have lived here. Who could have known that it was simply the browny coloured walls that made it look so bad. It is gorgeous with the light colour!
My new wooden bowl full of lemons? LOVE!
We've been asked a few times why we chose to stay here while the house sells. Yes, it's a pain, yes, we will have to clean up like mad every time there is a home open, BUT as much as the kids rooms are a perfectly decent size, they look soooo small with no furniture in them. So we are staying until the house is under contract.
We also moved the furniture in each of their rooms and now they look huge! I actually wish we had had them like this the entire time. Maybe it's also cause they barely have anything in them, but they seriously look great.
I'm most sad about my new and lovely laundry, but that can also be done again!
I do love my teeny backyard with all my plants - but the new one will be even better! Give me time.
My favourite part? Doug's car, parked at the next door neighbours, so it can stay a part of our house haha.
Our first home open is this Sunday - fingers crossed it doesn't take too long to sell!
