Making a detailed budget for a DIY house build is not an easy task. At least, it wasn’t for us: budgeting and managing finances is NOT our forte, as you’ll soon discover! But if confessing our bumbling mistakes and oversights helps someone else in some small way, then they will not be in vain. Well, … More Budget and Costs – the fun stuff!
12 January 2017: After a long and drawn-out process to get to this point, we now had a finished shed frame and a tight deadline to turn it into a house. 11 weeks in fact (our rental lease was due to run out on 30 March). We had two lists: the work we would outsource … More From shed to house in 11 weeks?
First of all, let me say that building a home out of a shed was not in our original, ‘dream home’ plan. My Pinterest account is chock-full of pictures of gorgeous, country estate-style, weatherboard-and-verandah homes with cottage gardens and the mandatory cocker spaniel (or spoodle) lying on the front step. That has been mine and … More The Shed House – Part 1
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