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Nah no offense at all. DIY Australia is not one of these low-end mass produced type kitchen companies though, they use high end materials and finishes, and allow for custom designs which can then be supplied either flat packed or assembled. For example, the 2nd IP above is 18mm MDF, gloss poly...

The kitchen in the 2nd IP (townhouse) is far from Ikea quality. It's a custom design flatpack from DIY Australia, with 2pak polyurethane cupboards in gloss white, soft close cupboards, soft close drawers, a waste bin drawer, etc etc. Cupboards alone were around the $4.5K mark, without assembly...

the after pics for the kitchens are taken from the real estate listings... so yeah i kinda cheated there, but the townhouse backyard pics were taken with a good quality Sony camera. I could've done these renos cheaper if i did more of the work myself, but given that a lot of the kitchen work...

should be fixed now.

PART 2 of townhouse tart-up We fixed up the rear courtyard. The starting point was pretty awful.... ...... then about 2.5 tonnes of dirt & bark, a crapload of bricks and blocks later..... All costs added up.... probably around $1800. This also includes buying a heap of paint...

Poo - i forgot that we also fixed up the laundry in that above cost.... Oh yeah.... and we fixed up the laundry too. OLD NEW (note the water damaged wall was eventually fixed, and new taps/faucet fitted)

Well this weekend saw the house above sell for $342K - an excellent result considering that I paid $226K in dec 2008, and only ever did minor repairs and then this $6k kitchen reno. Considering that i farmed out 90% of the work, $6k isnt bad, including painting the entire kitchen room. But...

openin up the room to the laundry wouldve been opening up a can of worms.... there is a whole heap of plumbing in that wall, a lot of asbestos, and more cost than i had available. At the end of the day, spending $5-10k more to do that wouldnt really see me much more money back on the sale above...

I figured i might as well jump on the bandwagon here, and show off a couple of reno's we've done in our two IPs. This might also help people to get a few ideas on doing the odd tightar$e reno to help add value - i know that I love seeing pictures like this to get ideas for myself and i've...