From the monthly archives:

June 2009

I recently delivered a kitchen renovation seminar at the Home Ideas Centre in Sydney. As I spoke for over an hour and a half, I thought I’d chop the presentaton into three easy parts (and reduce it). Here’s part 1 - trends and design tips.
(It goes for about 10 minutes - and ignore the weird [...]

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The last instalment on RealEstate radio also went unrecorded - because I forgot to press ‘record’. (Blonde moment!) However it was all about the missing third step from last time. Here’s roughly what we covered.
In the three budgeting steps we looked at before you worked out what you wanted and roughly how much that would [...]

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Neighbour from hell

by Amanda on June 21, 2009

Just when you’ve dragged yourself through years of the grit, grot and gross insanity that can be renovating hell, your neighbour decides it’s his turn. What do you do when he wants to build a McMansion extension in a street of little terraces?
I’d always wanted to buy the house next door if it ever came [...]

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Book highlights Part 2 - budgeting

by Amanda on June 15, 2009

Each fortnight I’m joining Sami and the gang on Radio Real Estate on Hot 91.1FM. Sami, Dan from Ray White, Rob from Adenbrook Homes and me, are taking a journey through The Renovator’s Survival Guide - picking out the very top tips.
In the second interview we talked about how to set a budget - unfortunately [...]

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