The Finished Product

Lots of blood, sweat and tears went into Our Next House, as we oversaw its construction from start to finish, and then embarked on the process of landscaping every square foot of the yard.

From paving the driveway to building the fence, to planting the garden, to installing the letterbox, we did it all.

And then we decided to move!

Here's the finished product.

The front gate

The front garden, looking towards the front gate

The front garden again, looking across to the area in front of the media rom

The little ceramic dog that has lived at this address for decades. See here for more about him.

The front entry (looking towards the front doors)

The entry from the other perspective

The main living areas - lounge and rumpus room

The lounge

Looking across the lounge towards the dining room

The dining room

The chandelier in the dining room (with the red hanging pendants from the kitchen in the background)

The dining room a little later, looking towards the kitchen

The kitchen - apologies about the photo quality

The kitchen again.

My beautifully organised pantry. I was so sad to say goodbye to this!

The rumpus room, in a slightly earlier incarnation

The view from the dining room doors out to the alfresco

The alfresco. And Allie!

Tom's beloved media room, with the big screen on the left

And now upstairs, in the little gallery at the top of the stairs. Front balcony through the doors at the top right.

The guest bedroom (before it got sacrificed to house homestay students)

The main bathroom

The ensuite (the light has done something weird to the colours, I'm afraid)

The master bedroom

The back steps from grass up to alfresco (see here for the early stages of their construction)

The back of the house, with our home-made retaining wall (see its early stages here)

The plants along the top of said retaining wall

The outside-laundry area, with baby plants and water tank

The little archway that leads down the North side of the house (and specially made gate as a simpler homage to match the fancy front gate)

The wildly successful passionfruit vine along the Northern fence (above our first retaining wall)

And that's our second house! We were very sad to leave, but who can deny the allure of a new project? Certainly not us!

Click here to see the process we went through to get our second house looking like this.