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Hi, I'm Liz, welcome to Eight Acres. I live on a small farm in Kumbia, Australia, with my husband, Pete, and our dogs Taz and Gus. This website started off as a blog for sharing all the things we make and grow on our small farm. We keep a small herd of beef cattle and a few dairy cows. We also have lots of chickens, bees and a vege garden.

Now as well as sharing what I'm learning, I can share what we make through our virtual farmgate (online shop), where I sell natural handmade tallow soap and raw chemical-free honey and beeswax.

If you want to find out more about what we do on the farm and where these products come from, you can read more in my blog, follow any of my social links or send me an email, I'd love to hear from you. Please join my mailing list, then you'll never miss an update from Eight Acres.

Moving house!

Jul 31 2013 0 Comments Tags: Cheslyn Rise, house, second hand

Back in December we bought a house. Not a house and land, just a house that someone didn't want on their land any more. The house is a "Queenslander" style, which means its up on stumps to keep out the snakes, termites and flood waters, and it once had a wrap-around veranda, which is now half built-in, but still very generous. The original parts of the house are probably nearly 100 years old, with some parts added in the 1990s.

It has taken SEVEN months to organise all the council paperwork and for the removalists to be ready, but our house finally moved this week!

Half of the house on the truck ready to move

The first half coming down our road around 3am

The first half in the house yard

The second half still on the truck

The removalist just has to put the roof back on and stump the house. Then all we have to do is connect power, install rainwater tanks and septic system, replace the roof, install insulation and ceiling fans, paint the interior...... its fun to have a project! I will show you around the inside as soon as the removalists have finished and its all settled on our property.

Have you ever moved a house? Or renovated an old house? Tell me it won't be too much work....

More posts about our house, from moving it to the property through to moving into the house (roughly in order):

A secondhand house for Cheslen Rise

Moving our secondhand house

A tour of our secondhand house (BEFORE)

The story of our secondhand house - Part 1

Choosing insulation for our house

Renovating a Queenslander house

Building the Queenslander house - book review

Stairs for our secondhand house

Update on our house progress

Removing asbestos from our secondhand house

Another update on our house progress

How to choose exterior paint colours

And one more update on our house progress

How I designed our bathroom

How I designed our kitchen

Keeping our house warm in winter

Trimming old doors in our house

Minimalism and decluttering

We moved house!

The story of our secondhand house – Part 2

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