Im buying another house...
 

Well trying too.

I put my place on the market and it sold in a week....gotta love an expanding city and money-to-burn developers.

I dont quite know what I want to do, location wise, so I am buying a decent sized investment home that isnt too expensive, so the rent will cover the payments after I am finished with it.

I am putting in an offer tomorrow on an older style 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, rumpus room and office home. Its currently owned by an older couple and it smells, looks, feels like an older person house.

Wish me luck

just take the moth balls out of the cupboards and it'll smell better. ;)

Sounds like fun Ducksy. Keep us posted!

Good luck with that Ducks!
I was wondering what you'd been up to. Nice to know it wasn't anything unpleasant or bad.

Congratulations, Ducks. Are you thinking of remodeling?

G'luck!

Be sure and take us plenty of pictures, please.
Hope it all goes through smoothly

Oust is very effective for smelliness...my mom carries it with her to combat hotel rooms that smell like smoke, she says it will fix a room in an hour or two. Check to see if you have a similar product?

http://www.oust.com/

Thanks guys.

Case - yeah, I will knock out the room between the two (?) bathrooms, the wall between the dining and living room, put a pergola/patio out the back and paint it non-old-person-colour.

Oh, 4yr MALE T-man is mighty impressed that his room is PINK!! That will change sonny boy.

Zen, work is crazy at the moment, life is too.

10 more days and I am on holidays in Perth...woo hooo

HM is a little too fond of Oust. I prefer to light a scented candle or ideally a cone of incense (got Frankincense going right now, my room smells like a church!) He will Oust (which he pronounces Oooost bizarrely) and I choke. I'd rather smell poo to be honest!

But yes Ducks, smells are easy to counter - I know my grandparents were not fresh air fans and kept the windows closed. Mum went in the other direction and taught me the same. Unless it is actually raining I open the skylight every morning while I am having breakfast and getting dressed, keeps the place fresh.

My new home...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1194412613.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1194412613.jpg

Old person bedroom

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1194412613.jpg

Lounge

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1194412613.jpg

Kitchen that needs some work

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1194412613.jpg

Dining Room

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1194412613.jpg

What will be the rumpus room. I will pull up the carpets and if the floorboards are good....polish them, but probably put down polished corks tiles.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...1194412613.jpg

looks nice Ducks, congrats.

That's a nice looking home!

I think I can sense my Grandma in that house.
That is sooooooooo late-1950s Australia. Red tiled roof, weather-board walls, neatly trimmed lawn, even the picket fence... and inside, with the curtains and lights to match ... except for the kitchen which looks like it was redone in the 80s or so, if I visited I would wonder if I had fallen through a time warp.
I like your house, Ducks, don't get me wrong. It is pretty good already and has plenty of potential for modernising. It's just so ... so ... exemplarary.
Can I ask ... is there a shed out the back? Does said shed contain an old cricket bat, a non-working victa mower, and the remains of a portable barbecue?

That looks so pleasant, Ducks! Congratulations.

I love that, Ducks! It looks so cozy and warm, and the plants outside! Tres magnifique!