I was in the hardware shop the other day and found all this oldish furniture in a neat pile on the floor in the windows shed. I asked the girl could I buy some as I thought it was for sale and she said they were just painting the staff meals room and it belonged there.
My main thought at that time was..."The answer is always NO if you don't ask"
"Well, can you ask your boss if I can buy it for my medieval themed room in my cellar?"
She did and he said to come back in a week and they'd sort out the rest and see if they still had enough furniture for the staff.
I held my breath all week, went in yesterday with a very blue face and....Guess what?
I now own a medieval type feasting table, a medieval bench seat and one matching chair.
I'd also spotted a couple of nice upholstered pinned dining chairs and a little side stand thing and grabbed them too.
Feeling amazingly blessed beyond belief. The cost was forgoing one pallet of bricks this week! ($100Ausd)...so I went and had an icecream!
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| The Hungarians love bold colours, even in their ice-creams too. |
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| The roof coming off the little shed. Should have it all finished in 3 days... |
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| From inside you can see how close Coby and Klaas's house is... |
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| Roof off, last of the rafters coming out... |
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| A new meaning to roof-top garden! hahaha... |
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| Digging down to get rid of 100 years of goat's poo, corn cobs and Lordy knows what else! |
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| Found this old water trough in the rubble pile, so rescued it and will fill the rustic thing with soil and plant petunias and put on the new deck. Well, I had a brainwave thru the week and decided to level the pile of rubble and build a deck on it for a BBQ, a fire pit and deck chairs etc. It will be protected from winds by the 2 buildings on either side of it and Zoltan is going to build a big brick wall at the back. That's called taking advantage of the prevailing circumstances to good use. |
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| I actually didn't want him to go this deep, it's over a foot, but he had suddenly done it, so I left well alone. I was just going to get him to clean up the corn husks and flatten it and throw a quick slurry of cement over it for a bit of a floor! It''s only to keep the shed intact for historical purposes and store wood in for the circular fireplace in the big room. Also now, with my latest brain wave...for a fire pit on the new deck here at the side of the sheds. But it's going to end up a blessed cemented floor, fit for bridge traffic across Sydney Harbouir at this rate! |
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| Just before they loaded my new treasures for the trip from the hardware shop to my medieval cellar room! Yaaahhy! |
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| Can't wait to clean it all up. |
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| Perfect...with the wooden locks in the timber too! |
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| Awesome...I dreamed of a bench and one chair like this...weird. The bench will have to have a wooden strip added to it.. but that is not a problem. |
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| One medieval party coming up soon! |
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| Even a pattern in the wood... |
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| This is where the new deck is going. I began leveling up all the rubble this morning to see how it would look at about 18inches to 2 foot high....then tossed all the piles of dirt all over it. This is how it looked at10am Friday... |
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| It will curve around at the front, have curved stairs and if there is still too much rubble, we'll build in seating around the entire sides and back part to get rid of more rubble, as seating! |
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| It's going to be one heck of a deck, that's for sure! I could have it all taken away and put in a flat patio thing around a pond and concrete seat, but why not use the rubble as a bonus and create something different? Am putting a fire pit in the deck when we get that far...over near the little shed we are working on to-day. A BBQ at the rear somewhere and let the big mulberry tree grow up in the middle and prune and train it to a type of weeping position if possible. See the tall bunch of sticks sticking up, well, that's supposedly the mulberry tree, slap bang in the middle of the area... |
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| Well, of course I couldn't wait once I'd decided to create the deck out there, so got into measuring out the steps and how far out it would go by morning tea time to-day, Friday. |
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| Clearing away the first push down of the rubble from the back of the shed... |
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| In between things I snitch my wheelbarrow, but to-day I have to fill a shovel with dirt and walk about 5-6 or so mtrs to deposit my dirt in the front end of this massive deck....a long job, but amazingly, got most of it done today. Can't believe it. |
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| The nice new privacy fence Klaas just put up in his place. The higher one is for his big bird cages. I'm also digging out almost a metre wide all along the fence line in between both sheds to make it easy to mow and keep clean.. This is how the rubble looked at 12mday Friday... |
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| Back wall all gone , form work up and ready for laying the bricks now. |
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| Istvan, Zoltan's son, is the maestro here Zoltan tells me. He said he's just the worker ! |
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| First row of bricks was the hardest as they had to cut into the edges of the walls still standing to get some linking for strength. |
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| Then in the middle of all of that at mid-day, the other neighbour popped in with a horse buggy full of horse manure for me. I ordered a bag full each Saturday, but he forgets or something, so Klaas yelled out to him across the paddocks and in 30 mins, a buggy load turns up! I think the words for bag-full and buggy-load must be similar in Hungarian! |
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| Up she goes... |
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| This was my other task today, to level this rubbish to the ground level so Istvan can lay the new brick wall for the deck...and also allow access along the fence line to and keep clear of Klaas's fence. The deck will be about 18 inches high and would ruin his fence if I just back filled to the fence. This is how the rubble looked at 3pm Friday... |
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| Then after covering up a lot of the rubble concrete stone things with dirt, I had a brain wave to make a garden at the base of the curved wall at front and edge the new gardens with something...so...yup, had to go hunt under the nice layers of dirt I'd shoveled all morning and locate the rubble. Will do it to match the little round garden at the front of the house. I laid some out to count how many I'd need, so my discus throwing arm is bulking up quite well at the moment! Will need approx 100 pieces to do both sides with double gardens like this...sort of. |
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| I like the shallow, wide, curved steps with not much rise in them. Columns like these will look great if I can find them over here, but not as close together. Because this was not in the budget, I'm not spending a penny on it until all the rest of the buildings are completed, so it won't look like this for a while. It will probably be done in 3 stages of upgrades. Gong from a grassed deck, to the columns/balustrading then some type of paving, then a gazebo of some type... |
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| This is like the curves I want. Of course, mine wont be so formal, more rugged and a tad rustic, but you get the idea. |
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| And of course, any left over balustrading can be put to great use. |
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| Forget the water, but I rather like this idea to shade and give privacy, rather than a high brick wall as I first thought. We measured the shadow in the afternoon, midday and so on and it would cut out too much sun, so into Google and found this type of idea with whispy curtains, gently moving with the breeze. You can pull them closed at the back, as we will be able to see right into Klaas's back yard if not, so I think this is super easy and adaptable too. |
We got the back of the shed bricked up and cemented the floor down OK and next week, they'll put on the roof, render the back wall and patch up the front and 2 end walls, but not with concrete.
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| A nice overcoat of whatever goes over all of this, covers a multitude of things! |
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| You can see how deep the goats poo was up the wall, but also how deep Zoltan dug down Later on in the year I'll get them to do a fast coat of slurry over the lot of the insides and a coat of magic paint and it will look like a... shed! There's the first barrow of cement going in for the quick floor. I'm only fixing the shed as little as possible to keep it for historic purposes only...and will just store wood in it for the two fires. It's only a small shed so no need for metal/mesh in the concrete etc. |
I forgot to buy the battens for the roof tiles to go on, so they'll go back on next week!
Dug out along the back fence, along Klaas's property when I decided to level out the deck...I can't believe I did most of it in one day!
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| Done...it's only got to be leveled and let the grass grow on it and mow straight up along the back, past the shed, deck and summer kitchen...Will keep it nice and clean. Plus I think there are boysenberries along the fence behind the summer kitchen, so here's hoping they'll grow again. This is Saturday afternoon and we are all done now! |
Will probably just let grass grow on it this year, as I had no intention of creating anything there, but it's all done now, so will have to sort out if a timber deck will work, maybe pavers, or whatever now!
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| Really chuffed with the effort over Easter...The boys did the shed and I did the deck, the fire pit and dug out the fence line at the back. Good show I'd say! |
It is a great show, love it. It makes you smile all the time...Puuurfecccc
OK...see you next time and I hope you had a super and thoughtful Easter break.
Cheers,
Mary
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