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This was half way through turning the garage into a living room or bedroom. Current tenants will use it as a bedroom. Facing towards where the roller door used to be - Standing where the roller door was, looking back towards the laundry. Hubby put up a wall to create a store room large...

Just an update on this renovation. Tenants moved in mid February and oldest son has been living on the front patio (glassed in) since then. We did commit to turning the garage into a bedroom and hubby started this week. It is just a floor, and roller door making way for windows and french doors...

The breakup of costs looks like this... Kitchen (cabinets plus appliances) came in at the $10K budgeted for but we did pay $1500 to have it assembled and installed. That was money well spent because we had run out of time and Tom (Arms) took all the hassle out of it. I hate putting flatpack...

Those photos above are before the ceramic cooktop, stainless canopy range hood, stainless Bosch oven and stainless dishwasher went in. We used the same rectified 600mm x 300mm tiles for the splashback. It looks fantastic finished, and I'll try to get a finished photo if I can. This is the...

Unfortunately, we don't have a "before" photo of the kitchen. Hubby took to it with a sledge hammer when I wasn't there with the camera. But "Arms" from Somersoft made a new kitchen for us. Looks fantastic, and he's a lovely chap too. We paid extra to have it assembled and installed, but the...

We would have liked rectified tiles on the floor as well as the ceiling, but the tiler also vetoed them for the floor. This is the small third bedroom with six ugly hopper windows. One of the "unnecessary" jobs but one that has improved things is that hubby closed up two of the windows...

Tenants moved in last Saturday. They were very happy that we go back inside until things are finished, and very happy to pay rent, but I didn't think that was fair, so we are starting the lease today. Hubby has one more full day of refitting door locks, front security doors, grouting...

This is the inside of the "fishbowl" patio, facing the street, very little privacy. It is being clad with VJ internally to give a "1930s pavilion" feel and externally with sheeting and strapping to suit the era.

Update... Floors being sanded, kitchen was to go in tomorrow, but floors are taking longer than expected to dry in the wet weather, plumber comes in Friday to hook up kitchen and laundry and electrician also. Tenants move in Saturday, but we will still have more to do. However, we have a...

Main bedroom with unpainted timber wardrobes (I would LOVE these wardrobes - hubby wanted to pull half of them out - no way!!!) - and next photo undercoated - (Note the gorgeous domed plaster ceiling)

Dining room windows that opened to the garage (real danger of knocking yourself out walking through the garage), and closed up read for finishing plaster work -

Bathroom before and during (this looks so much better in the photo than it was in reality - YUCK!!!)

Some of the changes we decided on as we went that were not in the initial scope of works (or the initial budget) were - - Removing the wall that divided the kitchen. This kitchen started life as a kitchen and laundry, and when the garage was added with a large laundry at the rear, the old...

Garage conversion is problematic. Do we get it drawn up and approved or do we allow the tenant to have his son live in it with just the roller door replaced with french doors? New tenant (our painter) is happy to do it this way until we are ready to deal with the floor. It slopes very gradually...

Will put up some progress photos tonight and our reason for doing this. It is too hard on an iPhone :-)

Forgot to add that included in the price is also five galvanised steel posts to support the sunken patio slab, in cement footings. This is happening this week, the is the last part of the job. It is not going to be an easy job. The patio is about three feet high where the post holes will be dug...

We are paying about $10K (cannot find contract right now) but that includes the cost of the builder cutting through the ashblock base, installing a gate to get the steel under the patio, cost of the steel C-beam for the kitchen, hardwood beam for the other end of the kitchen (non-supporting wall...

I'll post costs once we are finished spending. This reno is - . gut bathroom . new bathroom . gut kitchen . new kitchen including appliances . paint internally . have floors polished I estimated this would cost us $25K to $30K (ballpark $10K kitchen, $10K bathroom, $3K floors...

Builder is Owen Ferguson (Ferguson Builders). He lives close by and I'd recommend him. Don't forget Brian who is NBS from this forum, who is on the north side, but was most helpful for advice when we needed advice badly on a house our son bought. I'm not sure if he is in Brisbane right now...

Because I LOVE before and after photos, I thought I would post some photos of the house we are renovating. It is shaping up well, with lots more work to go, but we are more than half way there. I'll post "after" shots when I can. This is a 1929 house in Camp Hill that had one tenant in for 15...