Thursday, June 16, 2011

A Guest Bedroom in a Straw Bale House.

If you ever come to stay with us you will stay in our guest bedroom in our straw bale house. The wall behind the bed is ready for it´s last coat of render. The cross hatching pattern in the earthen render ensures that the final coat of render will adhere to the wall and not delaminate or simply peel off.



As you can imagine, rendering the guest bedroom is low on our list of priorities, so you will just have to live with it until we can bothered to get around to rendering it.

The bed suite was an eBay purchase, like that was a surprise. We paid all of $190 for it with two bed side tables which have been put to use in our bedroom. The tables that feature in this room were picked up at the Bed, Bath and Table factory outlet in Brunswick East...10 bucks a piece....BARGAIN!

The light fitting was also an eBay puchase. Custom made for a client who then purchased a property with very low ceilings....her gain/loss = my gain. $23.00 a piece and I ended up with three of those light fittings. OUTRAGEOUS!!!

So to go with my very cheaply priced straw bale build, I also seek to fit it out and furnish it on the cheap. It just goes with my eBay kitchen and my eBay bathroom
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16 comments:

  1. HazelJune 16, 2011 at 3:54 AM

    Daffodil, I will consider tis a serious invitation. Fill the hot water bottle.

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  2. AliJune 16, 2011 at 4:35 AM

    Move over Hazel - I'm sharing! I bags the left!!

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  3. DomJune 16, 2011 at 12:01 PM

    Now I wanna come visit even more than usual :)

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  4. UnknownJune 16, 2011 at 12:59 PM

    Love reading about your house Daffodil. Of course we want to stay!

    Sft

    P.S. haven't got your details yet so haven't been able to send Tea Tray Cloth.

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  5. Fiona from Arbordale FarmJune 16, 2011 at 4:10 PM

    Well since we are all coming to stay perhaps you had better put off rendering the wall and worry about a second guest bedroom.
    PS I would love to see more pics of your house now that you have a fancy new camera.

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  6. DaffodilJune 16, 2011 at 5:00 PM

    You may have to bring your own hot water bottle, Hazel! We don´t even have heating. On those nights where we drop down to -4 degrees, our inside house temperature still sits at around 12 degrees. We just wander around with a jumper on or pop a small blankie over our knees.

    Sft, I did send an email! Maybe it got lost in cyberspace. Just to be on the safe side, try emailing me at anyabree@gmail.com and then I can return an email to you.

    Ali, you are more than welcome to share with Hazel...and Fiona you may just have to squeeze in the middle until we are psychologically prepared to undertake the second half of the house!!!

    Dom, if you and Bryce are ever in our neighbourhood you simply must come and stay with us. There will be a standardbred in the paddock (dressage, unfortunately, not endurance) fresh eggs for breaky and we live in lovely winery country with a fantastic farmers market just down the road.

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  7. DomJune 16, 2011 at 5:20 PM

    And where precisely is 'the neighborhood'?

    Don't knock dressage. It's the basis for any good riding horse :)

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  8. DaffodilJune 16, 2011 at 5:41 PM

    Hee Hee! The ¨neighourhood¨ would be on the other side of the world. You could come DownUnda for the 2012 Tom Quilty Endurance Ride 160kms (100 miles).Of course that would mean that I would have to find and start training a horse for you RIGHT NOW. Cash would be incapable seeing as he is a fat hairy yak.

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  9. DomJune 16, 2011 at 5:49 PM

    That part of the world is top of my to-visit list, so don't think you WON'T see us.

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  10. DaffodilJune 16, 2011 at 6:03 PM

    ..and Dom, if I find out that you two have been to Australia and NOT visited us, then I will be a very upset Daffodil. We LOVE having guests lob on our doorstep!



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  11. DaffodilJune 16, 2011 at 6:05 PM

    Sft, you are also more than welcome to drop in on us!

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  12. duchess_declutterJune 16, 2011 at 10:43 PM

    Looks good Daf -love those lights too. Got to love Ebay for bargains.
    I think you may need a guest wing soon by the sound of it!

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  13. DaffodilJune 17, 2011 at 12:50 AM

    ...and it shall be called the Blogger´s Wing...

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  14. Frugal Down UnderJune 17, 2011 at 10:31 AM

    I'm booking in.

    If you want to come to Darwin you can have the couch :-) Nowhere as fancy as your place. And I live in chaotic mess. But cheaper then the rowdy backpackers dorm at $35 the night.

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  15. DaffodilJune 17, 2011 at 11:26 PM

    Done! I can sleep on couches and you are right, there is nothing cheap about backpackers anymore. HH and I were having this discussion just this morning. In Oz right now, accommodation is so expensive!

    I should warn you, we have been talking about visiting Darwin for years! How does a house swap sound? Melbourne has great op shops, brilliant boutique breweries and dodgy weather.

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  16. Bryce LeoJuly 14, 2011 at 8:49 AM

    Straw Bale Construction! I looooove the whole strawbale concept! Is your whole house done with straw or is the guest bedroom added on to a traditional stick built home? If I ever had a home built I'd love to be able to go with straw.

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