Welcome to our investment property! My husband and I purchased a 3 bedroom, 1 bathroom 1940s era stone cottage in a small rural town. The original building contained 4 rooms while two additions in the 1970s enclosed half the front verandah and built a kitchen, a bathroom, a toilet and a large room, part of which functioned as a laundry.
Along with the additions, the décor was redone at the same time, with new carpet, linoleum, faux wooden panelling and a paper mache style wall treatment. The previous owners also lowered the ceilings in the old portion of the house, from the original height of around 10 feet to 7 feet. In the lounge room. they used a foam board coated in what resembled chopped straw:
The other rooms had plasterboard sheeting for their dropped ceilings:
The kitchen was relatively good, though they had decorated the wall with yet more faux panelling and paper mache:
The bathroom was definitely a 1970s build, complete with foam ceiling tiles and pastel bathtub:
The large room in the addition was awkwardly designed with no real laundry space. Consequently, the tub and washing machine had been located right in front of the toilet door, waiting for a sleepy person to walk into them in the middle of the night:
Outside, some built the verandah ceiling out of a substance designed to resemble glued together shredded paper, formed into tiles. Evidently they ran out and filled in the remainder with plasterboard pieces:
The best part of the back yard? It has a shed, 2 rainwater tanks and a handy garden along the back fence:
The front yard has a lovely large tree and a very unusual mailbox, which will definitely be saved:
We have quite a lot of work to do, so stay tuned!
