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How to renovate our kitchen?
Hi, We are up to the kitchen reno planning and trying to decide what we can do ourselves vs what we hire someone to do for us. We ideally want to change the countertop, refresh the cabinet colour, replace the handles, replace the rangehood, and replace the kitchen sink and tap. See the helpful chat gpt photo for inspo!…
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How to paint trims and doors?
We were quoted just under $3000 for someone to paint the trims and doors of the house so trying to figure out if this is something we can (and have the patience to) do ourselves. We were wanting the colour Lexicon quarter in Dulux. What would the steps be for painting trims and doors, I think they're currently a semi gloss…
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How to fix crack on rendered brick walls?
Hi, We are getting ready to repaint our walls (Dulux Natural White) and have a few cracks and damages we want to repair to get everything prepped before painting. We're in a 1960's unit with double brick interior and it seems there were some cracks that have just been plastered and painted over, and then some parts where…
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How to paint a new plasterboard ceiling?
Hi, We have just had our ceiling redone, where they did a suspended ceiling to hide old popcorn texture so we know have the gyprock and skim plaster. We want to paint it but are new to all of this! A few questions, how long do we have to wait for the plaster to dry before painting. What layers do we need to use with…
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How to add light shade to ceiling-mounted fitting?
Hi, We bought a lamp shade for our ceiling light without thinking about sizing. We have a batten fix on the ceiling and the wire framing of the light shade is too recessed to fit our skirt of our batten fitting, the skirts too short. You can see on the picture that the skirt flares out too much so stops too high on the…
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Can I put a floating shelf over this mess of wires?
Hi, We are setting up some floating shelves in out kitchen. Originally there was a cupboard which we took down and found this wonderful surprise of wires behind it!! Because of the wires, we can't use the floating shelf kits as they then need drilling where the wires are. We were thinking of making our own floating shelf…
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How to patch a hole in double brick wall?
Hi all, We just had an old gas heater removed (and replaced with a split system) but it has left this hole that goes straight through to outside. Its a double brick unit. What would be the best way to patch this hole? The big one is roughly 10cm in diameter and the smaller one maybe 4cm in diameter. We would need to patch…
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How to fit a double curtain in a narrow pelmet?
Hi, I am in a brick unit from 1960's and am wanting to put in a double curtain (one sheer for privacy and one block out for warmth). We have a pelmet, and it's too narrow to fit a double curtain track bracket, and we would struggle to get a drill up there as well. We initially wanted to take out the pelmet like the…
