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Commenting on “Turning your house into a home”
Many people hate gardening. What about you? Australia gives me many good things - good quality air, clean and tasteless water (esp. Melbourne), and many opportunities - to live in peace not having to face wars, gain my education, buy a house I call home, etc.
My wife worked three jobs and I two to kick start our home owning ”project”. The first one was not a big house, and my knowledge of gardening was limited, and yet my wife and I established a landscape garden for the front and just some flower beds at the back.
A few years later, we had a house built to our design. It was quite a project to landscape the front and back by ourselves. The only help we had was to hire a bobcat operator for 4 hours to level and contour the land, and placed the larger rocks in position. It took a couple of years to finish the landscaping job, but it was spectacular.
I am a self-train Jack of many trades. I still like landscaping. Although I am a slow worker, the result justifies the means.
For the new and not so new migrants, it is not how big the house you own and live in. It is how you turn that house into a home.
Thank you for reading.
Commenting on “Turning your house into a home”
Many people hate gardening. What about you? Australia gives me many good things - good quality air, clean and tasteless water (esp. Melbourne), and many opportunities - to live in peace not having to face wars, gain my education, buy a house I call home, etc.
My wife worked three jobs and I two to kick start our home owning ”project”. The first one was not a big house, and my knowledge of gardening was limited, and yet my wife and I established a landscape garden for the front and just some flower beds at the back.
A few years later, we had a house built to our design. It was quite a project to landscape the front and back by ourselves. The only help we had was to hire a bobcat operator for 4 hours to level and contour the land, and placed the larger rocks in position. It took a couple of years to finish the landscaping job, but it was spectacular.
I am a self-train Jack of many trades. I still like landscaping. Although I am a slow worker, the result justifies the means.
For the new and not so new migrants, it is not how big the house you own and live in. It is how you turn that house into a home.
Thank you for reading.
