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Album: Our HousePictures of our home

Purchased in May 2002 from Arnold Thomas who had owned the house since the 70's and had extensively renovated the house from its original 2 bedroom design to the current 2 storey property it is today.

 
Album: Major Renovations
 

2017 - Major renovations after a tree came down on our house

 
Album: Garden Clean Up
 

September 2011 - The result of filling a 12 cu/m skip bin

 
Album: Landscaping and Spa
 

November 2009 - Landscaping and Spa

With a week of mid 30 degrees Cath began questioning the need for air conditioning downstairs, so we headed out to get some information and pricing.

The general consensus was we would need to look at the highest KW unit that single phase power could provide and installed it would be around $5500 plus dollars.

Considering that the air conditioning is for only downstairs and that traditionally there is only 1 to 2 nights a year that upstairs is uncomfortable and the fact that hot days we normally head out to the beach or are away on holiday during summer anyway I didn’t think this was great value for money.

I wondered if a spa might not be a better idea????

Looking on ebay the following day I spotted a spa that had been advertised badly, with poor pictures and had only 4 hours remaining and zero bids on it.

After speaking to Cath we decided we would put on a single bid and if we won it so be it and if we didn’t it wasn't meant to be.

Well… we won it with the one and only bid.

Now the dilemma started, how do we pick it up and where do we put it?

As one thing always seems to leads to another follow my progress as I create the area for the spa to go.

Read the Full Story Here

 
Album: Fort / Cubby
 

January 2008 - Fort / Cubby House

Heading out prior to Xmas to have a look at ready made cubby houses as a possible Xmas present for the girls we were blown away at the ridiculous prices they were.

After Catherine and I talked about it we decided that a “Fort” style would be a better option, cheaper to make and less grief as it wouldn’t require building permission.

So with only a rough plan in my head we headed down to the timber yard and returned home with a mass of cheap and nasty treated pine, sleepers, fencing rails and decking.

The trouble was as I started building the cubby/fort the design became more and more elaborate, with a crows nest arrangement between the trees leading to a flying fox, multiple stairs etc. As it is very unlikely we will move any time soon I wanted to make it as strong and lasting as possible and with all theses factors this is where the issues began …. The sheer lack of time.

Everything is mitered and/or checked-in; its plumb, level and square, all the edges of the timber is routered round and smooth and all of this is time consuming to say the least. Unfortunately just as I started the construction Ray had the pre-Xmas rush happening as well so I was working 7 days a week leading up to the Xmas break.

So currently at the time of writing it is still not finished and I estimate that another 3 days will be required to finish it off.

 
Album: Xmas Clean Up 2005
 

December 2005 - Xmas Clean Up

Well after a mammoth clean up of the garden for Xmas i thought it best to take some photos before the wind blew leaves everywhere.

Spending 2 weeks pruning, mulching, spreading scoria and moving 14cu metres of mulch onto the garden beds the garden has never looked so good!

 
Album: Dining Room Creation
 

April 2003 - Dining Room Creation

After 6 months living in the house it was time for a bit of demolition.

What was once nothing but a storage room became our dining room after a a few walls came out and some plastering.

 

Wildlife at home

Photos taken of some of our visitors includes black cockatoos, rosellas, owls, kookaburras and the ever present possums.

 
Album: Settlement
 

July 2002 - Settlement

Photos taken of the house before settlement

 
Album: Old Photos
 

Old Photos

The house as it was in 1979


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All original content copyright Matt Arber all rights reserved, no reproduction allowed without written permission.

This website was taken down in 2014, but in 2023 I decided to resurrected it and bring it back online, as it is now over 20 years old, expect bugs and features to no longer work as they once did.

The website is 90GB in size and contains approx 30,000 photos taken by us between 2003-2011, it is hosted at home on an old HP Proliant NAS running Lotus Domino 8.5 and spanning across multiple databases.
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