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A photo of our home office taken from the doorway. There's two white bookcases facing each other, two desks with computers on them next to the bookshelves, and to the right of the bookshelves is a window. The downlights are nice and bright and warm.

Exactly one year to the day after we got downlights installed in the lounge room and kitchen, we've had them installed in the office! It looks so much nicer and brighter now.

Posted on 28 October 2020, 22:44

A photo of the front of a stand-alone backyard room. The front of it is primarily glass with a painted wood frame (door in the middle, two full-length windows on either side), and the paint is peeling and the wood isn't in very good condition.

While I'm in a doing-stuff mood, my next project is attempting to at least slightly de-fuck the awfully-built back room in our backyard. It was either a DIY job or the tradies who did it should be ashamed of themselves. I'm going to try to sand and repaint the wood because it's peeling and the wood is gappy.

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Posted on 4 April 2020, 18:05

A photo of our dark grey metal roof with solar panels mounted on it

A photo of a carport with dark grey guttering and a white roof and posts, with a white Toyota Yaris parked under it. The front left post is partially on the driveway and the front right one is over on the grass due to the shape of the driveway.

And we're done, and the panels look great! The carport's very handsome too. (Yes, it's misaligned compared to the driveway but it's a weird shitty driveway that we're going to need to get redone at some point anyway).

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Posted on 20 February 2020, 20:28

A photo of our roof with several solar panels installed and several more in position but not attached yet.

Everything is coming together!

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Posted on 20 February 2020, 15:06

The back side of a solar panel propped against a wall. The back is mostly just solid white with a couple of cables on it.

The solar panels are getting lined up in preparation for being installed. They're both larger than I was expecting, and also there's not really that much to them!

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Posted on 20 February 2020, 14:13

A photo of three tradies standing on our roof, with a set of sturdy-looking mounting rails having been attached to it.

Solar panel installation is coming along well, they're installing the rails and microinverter cabling at the moment.

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Posted on 20 February 2020, 11:23

A photo of a hot water tank and a small compressor next to it.

Woot, we just had a shiny new heat pump hot water system installed to place our old inefficient one from 2002! Heat pump systems are really neat, and use like 20% of the power of a regular hot water heater.

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Posted on 12 December 2019, 15:38

A photo of an open-plan dining/lounge room area, with the dining table in the foreground and lounge in the background. There's LED downlights turned on and they cast a lovely warm and bright light.

A photo from the other angle looking back at the dining table and into the kitchen. More of the downlights are visible and it's still nice and bright!

Aw yeah, we have actual grown-up looking lighting in the lounge room and kitchen now. :P The electrician came today and installed a set of LED downlights, and it's SO much brighter and more cheerful and also more modern-looking in here now.

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Posted on 28 October 2019, 21:13

Beanie is supervising the new front window being put in.

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Posted on 4 December 2015, 11:10

The roof is completed! Mighty handsome, I must say. It’s a dark grey but the clouds are reflecting rather brightly right now.

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Posted on 25 August 2015, 14:53