My new friends... Selleys Spakfilla Rapid and Dulux 1 Step Prepcoat.

My first two purchases at Bunnings (not counting the numerous steel spatulas, paint brushes and rollers) were Selleys Spakfilla Rapid and Dulux 1 Step Prepcoat.

The spakfilla filled the gazillion nail holes in walls - the previous owner had hung pictures and paintings RANDOMLY EVERYWHERE! I also had to fill a number of cracks. Lucky for me, the crack pictured below is the worst there is - not bad for a house over 100 years old.

The crack:

No more crack:

A few of the gazillion nail holes - these are above THE STOVE of all places:


Painting my house would not be possible without Dulux 1 Step Prepcoat. No more dark purple feature wall:

And this is the second bedroom - primed and ready to be painted:

Priming my gorgeous burgundy wall in the hallway:Although the painting was hard work, it very rewarding, and doing it myself (with the help of my wonderful boyfriend) saved me a lot of money...

My little house... cute on the outside, horror colour scheme on the inside.

The first time I walked up to my little house - I fell in love. I had a feeling that I had found "the one".

Unfortunately the colour scheme on the inside left a lot to be desired.


In the main bedroom there was a dark purple feature wall and the rest of the walls a yellow cream colour, whilst the frames and skirtings were cream.


The second bedroom/spare room walls were a putrid shade of grey with cream door frame and skirtings.


The kitchen had bright lilac purple walls (same colour as the lounge walls), bright burgundy hanging cabinets, beige floor cabinets with brown and pink flecked fake stone bench tops with grey-ish white lino. The tiles, a grey beige.

To "tie is all together" one side of the hallway was a similar shade of bright burgundy to that of the hanging cabinets in the kitchen.

Through out the whole house the carpets were a dirty dusty pink colour.

I was told I would get used to the colours...