Organic Garden - work in progess

Vege Patch in proges,.

Must be tomatoes.

Our Pumpkin Patch.

Kale

Goji Berrry

Hubby still in the midst of planting - there are so many things in there, cos lettuce, watermelon, raspberries, grapes, cirtrus trees, I lost track!

Concreting Done!

front of house

Concreting all complete - still pending colour situation from Simonds.

We got our concrete done with a supplier - they were great and this is the end result!

Front side - no more yucky mud!

Back of house

Side of house

The other side - where the laundry room leads.

Now, its another project trying to work around this and getting the other bits of the garden together... building a new home is really taxing!

Not a pleasent update - wrong concrete colours being dismissed

This on-going saga with Simonds is driving me mad!  Simonds have given me the wrong colour sealant and claimed that they have fufiled their contract. 

Driveway in wrong colour

Driveway - right colour

My intial driveway was done in the right colour - which is desert sand. ( orange in colour)
It peeled after 3 months and Simonds had to reseal it - this time, they gave us a whitish cream colour. We emailed them with many pictures and colour swabs from the internet and despite these many attempts to rectified it, we have been ignored.

Receipt given to us to prove that they have given us the right colour

 Here is the receipt given to us stating that the right colour is given - whatever that is on the invoice does not prove much especailly I have no ABN number and cannot trace this company on yellow pages.  Simonds has to provide the colour sold to us at the Simonds Gallery and this did not happen. As far as I know - this is deceptive advertising if it really is the case.


i cannot even match the product used as I had concrete done on other parts of the land and needed to know what product / brand is used.

So far, every brand that I have researched has shown the colour to be brown / orange, it is sad that this blog has to be turned into another Simonds saga.

There are also many cases in the house when tradesman had came to fix items only to change colours on there because the stain on the items weren't right.

Go to product review.com.au and you will see for yourself the plight of other people who built with Simonds. 

All we want is to quickly resolve this issue.  Any suggestions would be helpful.
Thank you.

Baby Steps

I know it's been a long time since I did the last update, it is tiring trying to get things up while working full time, leaving us only the weekends to complete massive tasks. Plantation Shutters up and lights up in the front room - notice that my bookcase that I wanted is still not there ( not as cashed up as I would like to be!)

This is the family room - was bare with only the couch and table, newly added carpet, lights and my old bookcase did the trick.

This has been finally stained - u would see a cherry timber coloured dresser in my 1st few blogs. Good ole daddy did it for me and added some vinyl cloth at the top to hide the horrible top.

Mesh patio blinds are better than the smelly plastic ones that go yellow after some time, so this one's for the dogs! ( make them feel like they are in a room)

We had to hire our own scafolding and set this up and then the pain of putting all the crystals up from tangled up wires.... up to 400 pcs all hung up.

at last!