First (and Most Expensive) Jobs

I thought it would be easier to break down what we need to do to make our home meet our needs as their is so much. The first and most important jobs we need to do involve structural type work. It's hard to get that excited about structural stuff but it's very necessary in order to be able to transform our house into a place we are happy to be living in. 

Our major issues have always been the roof, lack of insulation and the wiring. Currently every time it rains we get two indoor water features (one in my room and one in the kitchen), our house is too warm in Summer and too cold in Winter and every time you try to watch TV, boil a kettle and cook toast at the same time the fuse blows. All fun and games when your house is small and there are six of you!

We are planning to do rewiring, reroofing (is that a word) and ceiling insulation at the same time. My husbands brother is luckily a builder so the plan is to pay him to do it. We have to replace like-for-like so we will be going colourbond. Once the old roof is off it should be easier to rewire and add ceiling insulation as our skillion roof provides no crawl space to access it internally.

The next stage will be to hopefully replace all our windows with double glazed ones as most of our external walls are covered with large windows. This should help a lot with the house temperature! Our newest plan is to replace the very large window at the front of our house with double glazed bifold doors. We have a large porch that we never use out the front as it's cut off from the house. By adding bifolds I am hoping we can really open the space in Summer and pretty much double the usable space in our Lounge area. The porch is currently wasted by being blocked off from the rest of the house.

There are also some weatherboards that we'd like to replace, not too many thank goodness and then we will get onto the things we can do ourselves- painting the exterior! This is the much more fun bit for me ;)

My colour scheme for the exterior is this:

Woodland Grey for the roof and guttering, Dieskau for the exterior walls, Vivid White for the trim around the doors and windows and a Delicious Mint door :) I am also planning on painting the porch in Woodland Grey and White as it's just bare concrete currently. Some inspiration pictures:

Now off to tend to my sick child who keeps trying to help me blog!