Home sweet Home

This is our first week in our new house in Preston... full address would be : 3/6 Birdwood Street, 3073 Reservoir, Victoria. The house is a 2 bedrooms villa unit with it's own car garage. No car yet, only Ihsan's bicycle and Taufiq's stroller parked inside. (Oh.. Ihsan now cycled to University, good way to safe money and keep fit :) ..) My house is the one with yellow staircase.

Like any typical Australian house, it is fully carpeted. The venetian blind and day curtain are pre installed. All the furniture is second hand stuffs. If you read my previous post, we bought the furniture from someone at a very cheap price. The whole living room cost us just $95 . 2 white dining chair : $ 5 each. White table : $10. White drawer cabinet $ 5. White 1-seat sofa : $10. Coffee table : $5 . Green 1-seat sofa : $20. 2 blue table lamps: $5 . TV rack with drawer : $5. TV bought at 'cash converters' for just $25. Notice all the 'white' stuff? The idea was to furnish the house with white theme, but i guess a little bit green and blue wouldn't hurt.. eh there's also black and brown... oh well.. just scrap the whole white theme thing then...

Both bedrooms have build in wardrobe. The main bedroom is for our own use. The second one is for visitors. Take note, this is an open invitation to all of you .. he..he..

Ahh.. the kitchen.. my favourite part of the house..mainly because i spent most of the time there..
The fridge is also second hand stuff bought from a Vietnamese student for $100. I spent whole morning 'samak' and scrubbing the whole fridge.

Here, we don't have to pay for the water bill. It is all included in the monthly rent. So you can shower as many times as you want.. but err.. with the weather as cold as now... hmm..hardly 2 times per day.

Lastly, the backyard. Amirah's favourite place. It's a gated backyard, so it's quite safe for Amirah to play around while i was busy in the kitchen cooking. She also likes to help with the laundry. She would pass me the clothes to be hanged on the rail. Such a dear.

I guess the house is almost complete now. I can say, it's a home away from home.