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• Visiting Canberra
  on Mar 2, 2015 in Life mid century mid century house
  We made a quick trip to Canberra, Australia's capital city, over the Christmas and New Year period. If you like your fix of mid-century modern then Canberra should certainly be on your list of destinations to visit.Our short holiday mainly centred ar...
• Flokati rug is in the mid-mod house
  on Feb 3, 2015 in soft furnishings
  I've been suffering writer's block and Jason hung up his tool belt semi-permanently over the holidays. We'd never make it in those reality TV renovating shows...given our slackness...Ha!Anyhow, just before Christmas we acquired a new (which means use...
• McIntosh sideboard
  on Dec 8, 2014 in furniture lounge room mid century midcentury
  Over the past few months we have acquired a few new (actually old) furniture pieces to reside in our mid-century home. You know how it is when you move house...you have to tweak your furniture to suit the space...Ha! That's the excuse I'm running wit...
• I'm back! And window frames...
  on Dec 1, 2014 in exterior
  I'm back after having a month off from Fun and VJs - my long service leave, so to speak...Really, there hasn't been a great deal going on around here during my little break. The weather has been either crazy hot or crazy stormy. Needless to say the r...
• Meeting the architects
  on Oct 28, 2014 in Brisbane Design History mid century house midcentury
  One of the most pleasant outcomes of participating in Brisbane Open House was how it led to a wonderful meeting with the architects who designed our home. Apparently, the newspaper publicity about the A.F Dawson Residence earlier this month was enoug...
• Repairing the plywood ceiling
  on Oct 16, 2014 in lounge room renovation repair
  The joys of aged maple plywood ceilings end when the reality of repairing them slaps you in the face!The hole left behind when we removed the wood heaterAs many of you would know, we recently removed a wood heater from the main living area. You can r...
• A.F Dawson Residence at Brisbane Open House
  on Oct 13, 2014 in Design History mid century house
  Well what a busy couple of weeks we've had in the lead up to Brisbane Open House which was held last weekend.It's all done and dusted and we were so pleased to be involved in the event as part of the residential homes component. For those who don't k...
• The blue room - painting the mid-century master bedroom
  on Sep 29, 2014 in bedrooms mid century painting
  Painting, painting and painting. It's all we ever really do around here...actually, I lie. We've had a few jobs completed, so I will get you all up to speed with our goings-on over the next few blog posts. But firstly, today is all about our blue mas...
• Painting the mid-century laundry
  on Sep 9, 2014 in laundry
  The one-wall-a-weekend painting program has been quickly stepped up to one-room-a-weekend now we are unlocking our doors to be part of Brisbane Open House 2014! Nothing like a deadline to get things moving.Last weekend we attacked the laundry with a...
• Removing the unwanted wood heater
  on Sep 8, 2014 in dining room lounge room
  Vale wood heater. It was nice knowing you, even though we never used you during winter. You were like the elephant in the room...taking up too much valuable space. We never took any photographs of you when you became ours because we never thought you...

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