Category: Building & Renovation

The quotes are stuck to the fridge in a 1970s brick house in Wollongong, three sheets under three magnets, curling a little at the corners from a week of being taken down, read over breakfast and put back. The kitchen they describe is the one the fridge stands in: a galley with a window over […]

You’ve had two installers out to measure the lounge and the hallway. You’ve chosen the boards, the same colour and the same range from the same brand, and both quotes have come back. And somehow they’re thousands of dollars apart. If your first thought is that one of them must be trying it on, that’s […]