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There's a helluva lot of kitchen threads in this forum that have sold me on the Bunnings flatpax kitchens, the word is they have nice solid backs and good quality construction - only a choice of 4 colours in the most basic model though, your place is fairly modern so you'd end up with the white...

We're getting an electric upright from the vault of father-in-law's shed. Gas is problematic, most second-hand kitchens have gas burners and they can't be used out here, and I'm not willing to go gas at all. Too much hassle with tenants, since you pay for the cylinders upfront. You need...

I have an entire house on the go too and we're keeping a *very* close eye on the costs - hence the sig - down to cheapie $4.95 towel rails :) A lot of our bits will come in more expensive though because we're semi-rural, I can't just nip down to Bunnings and pick up a flatpax kitchen bit by bit...

Photos! At least you can paint yours, if I tried to set up the scaffolding in bedroom 1 in my house I think the floor would give way lol ... high ceilings + bad floors = deathtrap for painters :)

We're dodgy, we pay a bloke $20 an hour which is damn cheap. He's retired and works for cash around the place (as do a few other blokes in their 60s), I'm not sure exactly what his trade was but he is bloody good at framing and plastering, he has the best house in the town because he fixed it...

Photos! And definitely keep us posted, especially with the kitchen. I'll be prowling for one of those in a few weeks too, and I'm sure there's a few other forum members doing the same ...

It'll go over. It always does :p Especially wiring, I guess I'm biased because I'm rural but large wiring jobs always seem to run to multiple thousands. You've allowed for fixing timber battens to the walls to stick the plasterboard to, and getting an electrician to re-do all the powerpoints...

Only 4K :eek: Geez ... we've hit $25k and then some on the PPoR doing it cheap (new roof, new tanks, new HWSx2, new kitchen, new pump, extra bedroom including painful demolition of a 40cm thick limestone wall, 2x new ceilings, insulation, combustion heater, external fencing, considerable...