Blogtoberfest - Day 7 - Where is Sadie?

And here are the honest photos of our house! This is what my house normally looks like at 8pm at night - the kids are just into bed and we're probably crashed out on a couch or on the computer or in the sewing room or making a well deserved cuppa!

Toys are spewing out of tubs...

Dirty clothes are on the floor where they were taken off... And the kitchen looks like a bomb has hit! Oh well, I feel that these are far more honest than the pics from yesterday.

Hopefully I'll get onto some crafting tonight to post about tomorrow!

Kevin McCloud - eat your heart out!

As a child I always wanted to be an architect (but I became an engineer instead).

My favourite TV show would be Grand Design (or The Amazing Race).

I love Better Homes & Gardens Magazine and the best bit about the Sunday Paper is having a sneaky peak at someone or others lovely house featured in the Home section.

So when we dicovered a steep block of land overlooking Hobart's northern suburbs we jumped at the idea of building a house (although we'd never dreamed of doing it since I'm anti urban-sprawl - it was an in-fill block).

Anyway, we got a fabulous designer on board (Mike Cleaver), a great builder (Andrew Scott) and we've ended up with an award winning home! We won Best Residential Building upto 250 m^2 and Best Use of Colour at the Building Design Association of Tasmania. Go check out the pics at Clever Design.

Please note - our house never looks this tidy! A lot of our furniture is hiding, along with all things associated with people actually living in the house - I am not a neat freak and live a lot of the time in clutter, a brand new house does not change this (although great storage does help a bit).