Renovating blog

We had almost decided not to go to the ugly apartment but last minute we changed our minds and showed up to the auction. Amazingly unlike most of the auctions we had been to, there were only about six other people there. We decided we would bid and I put my hand up for 370,000, but no one rose on that. We were shocked. Did we just buy an apartment? The vendor ended up not wanting to sell for that amount so we through in 20,000 more and he agreed.

We had bought an ugly, smelly apartment that needed lots of work. Damn!! So we came up with a list of what needed to be done. The highest on my priority list was the floor. That pink carpet had to go. We chose a coffee coloured distressed bamboo floating floorboard to replace it which instantly lifted the place. The walls were all painted an off white to compliment all of our art work and furniture that we already had from our previous place. The vendor had actually attempted to renovate the kitchen several years earlier so it didn’t need too much done to fix it.