Bunnings

I have been going to this place for years. Yes the range is huge and always a busy place. But as of late I have noticed each time I go it is getting more and more difficult to find someone to help if you need advise. Recently, I telephoned to get a price on a few things (particular paint items) and i was on hold forever. I ended up hanging up and just driving to the store.

Who doesn’t love Bunnings?
I know next to nothing about DIY, but upon entering a Bunnings I’m suddenly filled with the confidence to renovate, feng shui my life or simply change all the knobs and doorhandles around the house.
Absolutely anything seems possible.
Fortunately I tend to snap to before I attempt to jam the entire warehouse into my car. Instead I’ll usually just wander up to one of the many friendly and knowledgable staff and ask about this that and the other. Tools, colours, key cutting — These guys know it all.

For hardware shops, you can’t get better than this.
My favourite is the children’s playground, just shove the little suckers in there and close the gate, where can they go? That’s right, nowhere. While you have a little coffee to de-​insane your mind.
My second favourite spot in this massive warehouse is the garden centre. They have cool terracotta pots and statues for your garden, they even have chicken coups and guinea pig cages. Pretty sure they have bird aviaries as well. They sell trees, flowers, plants, plastic plants, marbles, stones, aquarium rocks, moss… everything for your gardening needs. And the prices won’t break your bank either.
My third favourite section is the section right inside of the garden area, where they sell kids chairs and playhouses, and slides and swings and how cute is that kiddy lounge chair? They’re pretty cheap too from $ 10. Not sure how long they’ll last, but I bought some anyway.
My fourth favourite section is the art supplies section. They sell little wooden bread boxes you can paint, they sell paint brushes and a really cool range of acryllic and oil based paints and they sell rollers as well for painting walls. In a different section you can get your perfect paint colour made up and shaken too.
My fifth and last favourite section is the lighting section near the back of the shop. Here we bought our exhaust fan/​normal lights/​heating lights for our bathroom and they look spectacular, even though we had no idea, someone was always around to give us one, or what they thought, sometimes they didn’t even work there. That’s the kind of person that shops at Bunnings.
Definetely worth going there, if not for the cheap insect catchers and mini garden pots and number plate signs for your house or business. It’s also got a playground!

How good is Bunnings in Oxley? You’d have to see it to believe it. I seem like the most unlikely person to frequent here as often but I do, but I can’t help it, there’s so much to see and it’s always so easy to get carried away in this store. I mostly end up leaving with planter pots and small herbs in pots.
I especially love this Bunnings because it is a large one, so you’d be sure to find what you need here. They’ve got one of the largest ranges in Queensland and you can spot the tall Bunnings spokes atop the building a mile away. They’ve got the garden and plants area to the right of the hardware superstore which have a huge variety of plants on display. You can easily be meandering through the aisles for hours. They’ve also got quite a range of outdoor décor and water features, which not many other Bunnings do. A large selection of outdoor furniture is also there and also a massive pick up point at the back for all those heavy/​bulky items you need to load up.
I always see the same rotation of people who greet at the front door and every time the hello’s are friendly and happy. They’ve got genuine and good staff!