OUTDOOR AREA
Episode 2 Series 10
TX Date: 29/06/09
View clip of renovation below.
Michelle Walshe (31), Leon Kirkbeck (33) and their three children Halina (6), Jarvis (3) and Hudson (1)
Te Atatu Peninsula
Michelle and Leon are young creative professionals who bought their first home in Te Atatu Peninsula two years ago – at the height of the property boom. They would love to renovate their weatherboard 1970’s house but with no capital gain they can’t borrow any more money. Although they love their neighbourhood the house is small and with three kids they are bursting out the door of their tiny house.
On top of this, Leon’s dodgy DIY skills are not the best… there is a crappy deck and an old rundown concrete swimming pool that resembles a cesspit and needs re- plastering and painting. It has a rotting deck and a wobbly fence that doesn’t comply with the building code.
Cocksy and Hamish’s task is to transform their cesspit of a backyard into the ultimate outdoor room that will give this young funky couple an entertaining area as well as more space for living in summer.
‘CREATING THE LOOK’
Hamish decided to go for a ‘Kiwiana theme’, which means native plantings, a caravan inspired striped fence and a good old kiwi BBQ table…and no kiwi backyard is complete without a good old kiwi deck.
But the piece de resistance would have to be the beautiful gas fireplace that means they will be able to use the area year round….especially with the SPA pool we scored for them from Sundance!!
With Hamish refusing to compromise on the glass fencing – thanks to National Glass – this went from a simple backyard makeover into the absolute ultimate in opulent outdoor rooms!
As Michelle put it when she saw it: “I can look at the front of our house and think…West Auckland…but when I go out the back I think: It’s Remuera!”
COCKSY’S SPECIAL PROJECT
· Cocksy built an 8 seater BBQ Table made from off-cuts of the Pine Deck
INVESTED IN:
· Good quality fencing (National Glass)
· Outdoor heating (Real Fires)
· Decking
BARGAINS:
· Our best buy was definitely the Trade Me plants at $350
· Instead of tiling around the pool we stuck with the kiwiana theme and went for black oxide concrete at $1200
· At $150 Cocksy's kiwiana classic BBQ table was cheap as chips
PRODUCTS (Our Exhibitors are highlighted in RED Bold)
OUTDOOR |
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Item |
Brand |
Product |
RRP |
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Fire |
Real Fires |
Real Fires 700mm Gas Fireplace |
$3399.00 plus installation |
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Accessories |
Freedom |
1 x dinner set and glassware |
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Spa |
Sundance Spas |
Sundance 680 Burlington |
$14,499 |
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BBQ |
Rinnai |
X5 |
$1599 |
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Tiles |
Jacobsen’s |
Refin Pietre Incise Retica Tiles and Stair Nosing (42 Retica tiles and 84 Stair Nosing pieces) |
$1945 |
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Lighting |
Eglo |
3 x outdoor lights (incandescent) Park wall lamp/1 anthricite |
$89 each |
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Paint |
Dulux |
Fence stripes in Cossack rock, Pauanui, Raymonds Gap Fire area Cossack Rock Bus Red Jacks Playhouse Mt Aspiring for trim and weather boards narrow neck |
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Fence |
National Glass |
National Glass Frameless Glass Pool Fence |
$9268+GST |
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Concrete |
Firth |
Black Oxide |
$1200 |
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Gas Cylinders |
Rockgas |
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Cocksy and Hamish
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Plants |
Trade Me |
Native plants purchased from Hamilton |
$300 |
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Deck |
Cocksy |
Deck – 3 pine decking $50 a square metre materials $1250
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BBQ Table |
Cocksy |
Made from the off-cuts of Cocksy’s pine deck |
$150 |
