The cost of window treatments

 

So what is the cost of window treatments?   It is really up to you what you spend, we generally work to your budget, with some guidance as to what your budget will buy you. For example Journey Home has supplied curtain treatments from $450 to $9000 per window and everything in the middle. 

Bronze finished timber rods with brass trims, elegantly support heavy insulated curtains and sheers.

 

It all depends if you want something simple

 

Or we can really go to town.

its totally up to you!

 

For clients who don't need the whole room designed, Journey Home offers a window treatment service to select the right product type, the right fabric choice and nut out the little details for your windows.

 

A rebate is offered against the service fee if a certain amount is spent on window treatments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vive La France Part deux!

Sorry I've been away.  I've been busy working on a designs for a hotel room refurbishment and a new bathroom, both for heritage listed buildings.

Here is an update on my planter box and awning. 

My black and white awning is up.  Just waiting on the plants to grow a little more before doing professional photos.  My Big Red Geraniums are thriving, thanks to the irrigation and drainage that I included in the design of the window box.   I also get a lot of enjoyment as I dead head them every weekend to promote new flowers. 
Thanks for all the positive feedback.

Front Guest Room - Contruction Begins

Arhitectural Elements I will be looking for the room

Contruction begins, hello new wardrobe.

The old veneer cupboards and dated carpet are removed leaving the walls, skirtings and cornices in an icky state.

New built-ins robe was constructed on a smaller foot print to make space for furniture The extra space opens the room up and yet there is still ample storage for a guest room and my ironing. Due to the existing ceiling battens, you are always going to realise that the wardrobe was retrofitted, so I chose not to cornice the new wardrobe, the goal was to make it look smart and tidy, which it certainly does.

I would have prefered to keep the original doors however they were heavily damaged so when bedroom door was replaced we took the opportunity to change the swing direction to open up the view of the room from the hall way making both the room and hall way feel more spacious. Gotta love those floral door handles.

2 new additional power points have been installed in the room for lamps and other modern day appliances. It would have been rather costly to move the light switch out from the behind the new door swing, we've installed the fan light remote on the side of the door for easy access. I chose to mount the remote onto a traditional switch block for consistency. It's the details that count.

The Beginning

We've bought the house, My first house at 40 no less! Too exciting for words, but that's not really the beginning of our Journey lets go back a few years.

Our house was built back around 1930's when the Federal Capital Commission was organising housing for public servants for the new city. The Architecture style later became known as FCC style, there were a number of houses built with the same Spanish Mission / Bungalow design known as Cottage Style No 4, one of which is photographed below soon after completion.

Kitchen and Bathroom of the FCC style home.

Lets be clear - these are not Before photos of our actual house, we have sixties style to deal with! More about that later.

Images sourced from the National Archives of Australia - Mildenhall's Canberra

If you are interested in the history of Canberra homes visit www.naa.gov.au or google FCC style.