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Our Living/Dining Room Remodel has enabled us to achieve an open plan kitchen/dining/living space that opens up to a large outdoor entertaining area (this reno is still to come). Included in this redo, we have incorporated a daring black sub-feature wall with our feature being the messmate timber panels behind the TV. We have used a concrete dining table with bench seats plus a floating wall shelf to accentuate our "county/industrial" style. We have continued using the Senso vinyl floor planks in Rustic Walnut that leads us to our newly installed sliding door where we bring outside in.
Plasterboard and Plastering Supplies
Plasterboard 5.2kg Plaster Stud Adhesive - Bunnings Australia
Gyprock CSR 75m Plasterboard Perforated Paper Jointing Tape - Bunnings Australia
Gyprock CSR 2.25kg Less Mess Multi-Purpose Joint Compound - Bunnings Australia
Gyprock CSR 2400 x 1200 x 10mm 2.88sqm Plasterboard RE - Bunnings Australia
Senso vinyl floor tiles - Rustic Walnut
Messmate Timber Batons 32mm x 32mm
Sourced from Baumys Timber in Colac
Taubmans Low Sheen -Trendy
Sliding Glass Door from Bradnams Windows
Bunnings Ceiling Fan
Concrete Dining Table, Bench Seats and Floating shelf were all custom made
Lounge Suite was from Focus on Furniture
DeWalt Repo Saw
DeWalt Circular Saw
DeWALT 18V Li-ion XR 184mm Brushless Circular Saw DCS570N-XE - Skin Only - Bunnings Australia
Paslode Nail Gun
DeWalt Impact Drill
DeWALT 18V XR Brushless Atomic Impact Driver - Skin Only - Bunnings Australia
Dewalt Drill
Dewalt Drop Saw
Variety of Hand Tools
This starts the demolition of 2 walls leading from our kitchen through to the pokey sunroom adjoining the laundry. This was a massive task and we certainly endured lots of blood, sweat and tears (and blisters).
Knocking out the internal walls was a challenge but certainly no comparison to the brick external wall. We had to place a massively large and heavy steel lintel up to prevent the roof from caving in. We used a Demo saw with a diamond tip blade to cut the bricks. Super messy job!
Plastering time - It's a tough gig removing the old horsehair plaster, infact, it's a tough gig doing anything with plaster, hanging, joining, sanding (definitely not our favourite reno job). we also added more of the Senso vinyl flooring to match up with the previous kitchen reno.
Walah!! Our living/dining space is all complete. Hope you like the end result, we love it! Whoever said opposites attract, was on the money - Heather the cow brings lots of colour and fun to our room while our gorgeous budha offers calmness and tranqulity. We have continued the use of black, concrete and timber features to tie in with our other renos.
Hi @Dons-Glenno,
Thank you for sharing your living room remodel project with our community.
I can see how much time and effort you've put into this project, for which you should be extremely proud.
Removing the dividing wall, installing the lintel and installing the new sliding glass door has really opened up the space and provide a wonderful volume of light to your new living room area.
The choice of colours is fantastic, and the vertical batten feature wall is very on trend. Heather the cow and the indoor plants give that pop of colour that really makes the space home.
Congratulations on a wonderful project.
Jacob
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