Abdallah House - Redesigning a Home

'Wicked Sleeper' beds replace the Whiteheads garden (Dec 2024) On the 8th of January 2024 we had another a flood event that had a big impact on Seymour and our Whiteheads Creek garden beds across the road at my neighbours place - see image below. What you see in the image above is the finished concrete sleeper wicking beds that I designed and my neighbour financed and built (with help). The wicking bed internal design is based on the Very Edible Garden system  and uses their DIY kit, custom made to size. The Whiteheads Creek Garden after the flood (Jan 2024) I was contemplating giving up on growing food after the previous flood just 15 months earlier, when this one wiped out the garden again. My neighbour, Jim, was keen for me to continue and offered to build a raised bed from concrete sleepers. The sleepers were 2m long, and about 200mm high, 100mm thick. Initially I wasn't interested, thinking that a giant raised bed near eucalypts would soon be filled with roots fr...

I haven't managed to keep up with my blog posts, but what I did get stuck into is posting images fairly regularly on Instagram @abdallahhouse . If you go right back to the first entries you can get a pretty good idea of what we've been up to.  2023 Report Kunie and the boys headed to Japan for about a month early in the year, which gave me a chance to get a 2nd hand extractor fan installed in the kitchen. It extracted the gas fumes from our 1960's cooker out through the top of the cool cupboard , and out through the flue. It was a good opportunity to revarnish the floor, chairs, table and repaint the cupboards and doors.   The other big job I got started was the long awaited rebuild of what I have been calling 'the shed', which was actually the original outhouse (toilet) and laundry/bathroom. The last remaining part of the original building. The building was identified by David Holmgren as a "prime candidate for retrofitting as a studio space" (page 92) o...