4 Years In The Jarrah Jungle Home

Four years ago Mr P and I moved into our first home together now affectionately known as Jarrah Jungle. We knew the house had good bones and a great layout but would need everything renovated inside and outside to turn this house into the home we want to live in and enjoy.

Our house has certainly seen a whirlwind of changes these past 4 years ...
 

• All 4 bedrooms have been stripped back and painted
• All the floorboards have been sanded back and restored, including bare floorboards found in all the bedrooms under carpet
• I designed my dream master bedroom with a custom built wardrobe
• Mr P has his Man Cave
• I have my girly Craft Room / Study
• Guest bedroom is at the ready whenever friends or family want to stay
• A stunning modern bathroom with double shower heads and basins
• New wiring and light features throughout the house
• The Living Room got a ceiling lift and all over face lift
• My first (and last?!) attempt at wallpapering the hallway cupboard doors
• My shoe collection has it's own shoe cupboard
• A kitchen renovation that created a perfect cooking and entertaining space
• Created french doors from a window, leading out into the backyard
• Adding on a double garage extension
• The front of the house has been transformed with render and a full roof restoration

 

Phew we have done so much work to the house in these last 4 years working on weekends one project at a time, finishing it and having a break while we catch our breathe, get some rest and save some money for the next project. We have well and truly put our own stamp on the house and made it work for us with the things that we love and how we want to live. Sure, not everyone is going to love my shoe cupboard (although I'm yet to meet a female who hasn't ohhhhed and ahhhhhed over it!) but it definitely works for us.

 

 

In the next 6 months we want to finish renovating the house inside and within 12 months finish outside both front and back. Hopefully we'll then be at the stage where we can get the land subdivided which was the plan from the start .... then we'll have some big decisions to make on whether to (1) keep the subdivided land and build a house on it or (2) sell the land to someone else and move onto our next home or (3) keep Jarrah Jungle as a rental or sell it and move on. This was a 5 year plan for us and we are running pretty much on schedule which is a great feeling.

 

 

The project list still to do thankfully is a lot shorter than what has been done which gives me some hope that we will manage to finish this list in the next 12 months ...

 

• Build the front courtyard with brick fence, landscaping, etc (in progress)
• Lay a new driveway and path to the front door
• Replace the fences outside
• Replace all the internal and external doors and handles throughout the house
• Gut and renovate the laundry
• Gut and renovate the toilet, turning the toilet into a powder room with a basin
• Build a deck out the back leading off from the French Doors
• Pull down the old patio and granny flat
• Landscape the backyard

Happy 4 year anniversary Jarrah Jungle, I'm excited to see what you look like this time next year!

[All images my own]