The reno I didnt want to start
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It almost gives it a skylight type look with the way the light falls. Love it
Yes, it does feel like a skylight in the daytime.
Ah, bugger, I knew I would forget something.
No, on that wall down one end to the left of the window is a hot water and a cold water point. See that little black square? That's where the waste will go. I'll be getting a stainless steel bench and sink. On the other side of that wall is the unfinished bathroom.
Our rent subsidised garage dweller gets back on Thursday from Colorado. Won't she get a surprise to find I have tossed out the shower, kitchen, dunny and her bed. Still, she has just spent three months in a yurt on some Buddhist place so she'll be fine. The kids would be planning to lead her out the back blindfolded for maximum effect.
Ah, bugger, I knew I would forget something.
No, on that wall down one end to the left of the window is a hot water and a cold water point. See that little black square? That's where the waste will go. I'll be getting a stainless steel bench and sink. On the other side of that wall is the unfinished bathroom.
Our rent subsidised garage dweller gets back on Thursday from Colorado. Won't she get a surprise to find I have tossed out the shower, kitchen, dunny and her bed. Still, she has just spent three months in a yurt on some Buddhist place so she'll be fine. The kids would be planning to lead her out the back blindfolded for maximum effect.
So, the bathroom is outside? Didn't it have an indoor bathroom previously?
It just had a shower in one corner - one of those fibreglass and Perspex boxes. It went in the demo.
Outside is a laundry and dunny that will now be a laundry, dunny and shower. It's a way off being finished, though.
Outside is a laundry and dunny that will now be a laundry, dunny and shower. It's a way off being finished, though.
Okay, brace yourselves. The floor is done.
So the colour on the paint chart was 'lettuce'. It looked a bit like that mid green colour on an iceberg lettuce - sort of between the really green bit and the white bit that nobody eats. A bit of a pastel green, I thought.
Turns out that it's more like the sort of irradiated green you might find in a lettuce growing near that drowned nuclear power station in Japan. I might suggest to Taubmans that they rename the colour 'Fukushima green'.
Still, it's a happy colour and a bit of fun. It's pretty overwhelming in a big space with no furniture. It needs some big rugs - orange ones, I reckon. I kept the cat footprints that appeared in the floor levelling stuff one morning - I like them.
So the colour on the paint chart was 'lettuce'. It looked a bit like that mid green colour on an iceberg lettuce - sort of between the really green bit and the white bit that nobody eats. A bit of a pastel green, I thought.
Turns out that it's more like the sort of irradiated green you might find in a lettuce growing near that drowned nuclear power station in Japan. I might suggest to Taubmans that they rename the colour 'Fukushima green'.
Still, it's a happy colour and a bit of fun. It's pretty overwhelming in a big space with no furniture. It needs some big rugs - orange ones, I reckon. I kept the cat footprints that appeared in the floor levelling stuff one morning - I like them.
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Yes, I was a bit taken aback when it was done. Seeing a colour as a 2cm x 3cm rectangle on a brochure and then imagining it as a 65 sqm rectangle was always a stretch.
My kids think it's funny - especially the cat foot prints. They are convinced the garage dweller will love it. She lobs sometime tomorrow. (She might not be as enthusiastic about the missing kitchen, shower, dunny and bed, but she has spent the last 3 months in a yurt.)
My kids think it's funny - especially the cat foot prints. They are convinced the garage dweller will love it. She lobs sometime tomorrow. (She might not be as enthusiastic about the missing kitchen, shower, dunny and bed, but she has spent the last 3 months in a yurt.)
Fukushima Green is apt 
I love the cat foot prints.
I hope your traveller has harnessed her inner Zen and is ok about the lack of ammenities until you finish.
Chop, chop!!
I love the cat foot prints.I hope your traveller has harnessed her inner Zen and is ok about the lack of ammenities until you finish.
Chop, chop!!
She has keys to our house, so she'll wander in there to use the dunny and kitchen. That will encourage me to get stuck into the bathroom - just needs tiling now.
Well, you better pull your finger out then, hadn't you?
How is she going to survive without a kitchen, shower, bed & toilet?
Her fridge is still there and plugged in, though it's out in the backyard. And there is a tap out there. My BBQ is out there, too - the gas bottle is even full. She usually goes for a swim in the mornings and the pool would have a shower. And I've got a spare bed I can bung in there. The kids think it will be fun.
With a bit of luck, the stainless steel benches and sink I ordered on-line will show up soon. (Stainless steel because I'm thinking ahead till when that building will be my shed.)
Yep this is magic Scott. Keep it up mate.
Quite simply its glorious.
I wonder if she has been sitting in the yurt dreaming of getting home, opening her door and having a nice, long hot shower
.I quite like the colour, and it looks very jolly with the white painted walls, and for this particular building and how it is used, who cares if "somebody else" doesn't like it. I love my dark brown dining room walls and my oldest son hates them. Do I care?
I'm curious to know what the product is that you used?
It's a Taubmans product. It was called iCoat, and that's what was on the brochure, but the guys in the paint shop refer to it by the name on the can 'PPG Coatings'. Taubmans onsell it and I think used to rebrand it, but now don't bother - they probably don't sell enough of it.
It comes under the banner of 'industrial coatings'. Not many places have it - even some of the Taubmans trade outlets don't carry it and don't know much about it.
Dulux have an epoxy flooring product, too. All the big companies would and there would be specialist suppliers. The problem with them is that they don't have the colour range because the stuff is mostly used in factories - I didn't want slate colour, or beige or something like that. The Taubmans product, amazingly, had 127 colours - all the colours in the Australian Standards range (including lettuce).
The bloke in the paint shop was great and spent 15 minutes with me talking about pot life and explaining that I should do it in two batches etc. With the weather being cool, he gave me the fast hardener and made sure I knew the ramifications of that.
I made sure I went there with paint spattered clothes so he would think he was talking to someone who knew what they were doing. He said, 'This isn't really your standard DIY product.' I said, 'That's good, because I'm not your standard DIY guy.'
Then we talked about wine making. I noticed down the back of his huge store was stuff for people who make their own wine. The store was in Haberfield and I guessed correctly that his dad came out to Australia in the 60s, settled in Haberfield, and still made his own wine. I think I might have to have a go at it one day while some of those old Italian and Greek guys are still around.
It comes under the banner of 'industrial coatings'. Not many places have it - even some of the Taubmans trade outlets don't carry it and don't know much about it.
Dulux have an epoxy flooring product, too. All the big companies would and there would be specialist suppliers. The problem with them is that they don't have the colour range because the stuff is mostly used in factories - I didn't want slate colour, or beige or something like that. The Taubmans product, amazingly, had 127 colours - all the colours in the Australian Standards range (including lettuce).
The bloke in the paint shop was great and spent 15 minutes with me talking about pot life and explaining that I should do it in two batches etc. With the weather being cool, he gave me the fast hardener and made sure I knew the ramifications of that.
I made sure I went there with paint spattered clothes so he would think he was talking to someone who knew what they were doing. He said, 'This isn't really your standard DIY product.' I said, 'That's good, because I'm not your standard DIY guy.'
Then we talked about wine making. I noticed down the back of his huge store was stuff for people who make their own wine. The store was in Haberfield and I guessed correctly that his dad came out to Australia in the 60s, settled in Haberfield, and still made his own wine. I think I might have to have a go at it one day while some of those old Italian and Greek guys are still around.
It's bigger than a yurt. And it has power. No bathroom or kitchen, but she's been using shared facilities in Colorado, so she'll be fine. And there are no grizzly bears roaming around my backyard.
