The exciting thing about our Darwin range is that you can create the individual look and feel of your room. There is no ‘one size fits all’ here. You can add as many cabinets as you need, with a range of door fronts or drawers. Darwin grey oak effect Darwin oak effect shaker Darwin walnut effect shaker Darwin oak effect slab Darwin oak effect and anthracite Darwin white gloss slab Step 1: Choose your cabinets Available in five different sizes and four colour options. Step 2: Choose your internal storage Internal drawers, partitions, shelves & hanging rail. Step 3: Choose your doors and/or external drawers Choose between a range of styles and finishes. Step 4: Choose your finishing touches Add handles, trims, cornice & plinths.Home » Recycling and Waste Management » Pre-Cyclone Clean Up At City of Darwin, residential rate payers are provided with a pre-cyclone clean-up service. The pre-cyclone clean-up service is similar to a hard rubbish collection to help residents tidy up their yard in preparation for the cyclone season.

The clean-up removes items which could become dangerous missiles in the event of a cyclone.I Love Lucy Weight Loss Episode Commercial rate payers (businesses) are not entitled to a collection.Bathroom Mirror Metal Strip Place your items on the nature strip on Sunday 28 August 2016 for collection commencing Monday 29 August in the Northern Suburbs:Curtains That Block Sound Alawa, Anula, Brinkin, Jingili, Karama, Leanyer, Lyons, Malak, Marrara, Moil, Muirhead, Nakara, Tiwi, Wagaman, Wanguri and Wulagi. Place your items on the nature strip on Saturday 17 September 2016 for collection commencing Sunday 18 September for the Southern suburbs: Bayview, Coconut Grove, Darwin City, , Fannie Bay, Larrakeyah, Ludmilla, Millner, Nightcliff, Parap, Rapid Creek, Stuart Park, The Gardens, The Narrows and Woolner.

Seniors and residents with a disability can request assistance to remove items from their property. Please call Council on 8930 0300 no later than the Friday before your collection. Tips on Safety when placing your items To make collection easier, we ask that items are separated into groups with like-items. Leave a space between groups rather than bundling everything together. Many items can be reused and recycled. To help, we ask that you separate items into groups of similar materials as each group is processed into different categories. Here’s an example of what will be collected and how to group your materials To find out more about the pre-cyclone clean-up, please contact City of Darwin on 08 8930 0300 or email darwin@darwin.nt.gov.auOne year after they lost their apartment and ended up in a single room at the Brooklyn Arms, Linda Adeyeye and her five daughters are starting over. They moved into a freshly painted six-room apartment in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section last week.

Everything they owned -some clothing, a few pots and pans, a cactus plant, a set of homemade blue cotton curtains - hardly filled one room. The day before they left, Mrs. Adeyeye, who is 34 years old, made what has become a ritual trip for families moving out of welfare hotels. She went shopping to replace the furniture and household items that had been lost along the jumbled route to homelessness. Dreams of this day, Mrs. Adeyeye said, had sustained her throughout the 12 months she spent surrounded by the dingy brown walls of Room 419. ''First, I want a lot of plants,'' she said, riding in a social services van to Danny's New and Used Furniture, at 408 Rockaway Avenue in Brownsville. I want double drapes - navy blue on the outside, white on the inside. I want lamps with blue vase bases. And I want nice bunk beds for the kids.'' Art of Stretching Money As it turned out, the plants, the drapes and the lamps would have to wait. Mrs. Adeyeye had $1,100 to furnish the entire apartment, a onetime state grant for ''the establishment of a home.''

Each family gets a similar grant when they move out of a welfare hotel into an apartment. The basic grant for a family of four, fixed by state officials seven years ago, is $864. Mrs. Adeyeye's grant was higher because of her larger family. Mrs. Adeyeye also had the services of Lillian Legree, one of 21 caseworkers from Lend-a-Hand, an agency set up by the Human Resources Administration to help with the initial resettlement of families from welfare hotels. Mrs. Legree, whose own housing odyssey took her from the Brownsville projects to her two-family brick house in the same neighborhood, is unusually skilled in the art of stretching the state grant, and she helps several families a week. ''My mother trained me,'' Mrs. Legree said. ''I was the second of nine kids, and the oldest girl in the family.'' To Mrs. Adeyeye she recommended the Wednesday sales at Abraham & Straus on Fulton Street. ''I took a client there, and she got a nice full-size comforter for $10,'' she said.

Mrs. Legree had a photocopied list of 20 furniture stores that accept welfare checks, places like Blue Bird Discount and Two Star Furniture. She said the storeowners do not try to take advantage of families from welfare hotels. ''That's why we go with them,'' she said. Mrs. Adeyeye had been to Danny's before. ''I used to come and just look,'' she said. ''I was waiting and hoping.'' Lost All Her Plants She said she had become homeless when she could no longer afford the escalating rent for her apartment in Crown Heights. Besides her furniture, she said she had lost all her plants, including the two prized rubber trees she had been cultivating for almost five years, and the photographs of her late parents, Garfield and Rosa LeSaine. Mrs. Legree understands that all the essential things are not covered by the state grant. On a recent shopping trip, a young mother of four wanted a bureau that cost $135, including an attached mirror - or $120 without the mirror. ''So, forget the mirror,'' the salesman at Darwin's Furniture, in the Bronx, suggested.

''She can buy a few pots and pans.'' ''No, she's got to have a mirror,'' Mrs. Legree said. ''Let her have the mirror.'' 'She Knows What She's Doing' Danny's was one vast space stacked from floor to ceiling with beds, tables, chairs, dressers and sofas. Mrs. Legree had been there before, and the owner, Kobe Isaccs, greeted her with obvious deference. ''She knows what she's doing, I'll tell you that,'' he said as Mrs. Legree and Mrs. Adeyeye huddled near the beds. There is not a wide choice of furniture for those on a budget like Mrs. Adeyeye's, and it took about 10 minutes to spend most of the money: $149 for a rectangular wooden table with a pedestal bottom and four chairs, plus $25 apiece for two additional chairs; $199 for a set of wooden bunk beds; $149 for a double bed with mattress; $258 for two single beds, all of it new. The furniture was nothing fancy, and it will not last a lifetime. But Mrs. Adeyeye seemed pleased. It was a beginning. It was about 12:30 P.M., but the caseworker had no time for lunch.

Mrs. Adeyeye needed a crib and a dresser, and Mrs. Legree said she knew a place with the lowest prices around. A Tip From Her Mother They headed for the RSD Moving Company at 590 Livonia Avenue, a family business that moves furniture and sells it. Mrs. Legree got the tip on RSD from her mother. ''They moved her from Brooklyn back to North Carolina last summer,'' Mrs. Legree said. ''She told me, 'You should take your clients there. They've got good prices.' The drive to RSD took them past the project where Mrs. Legree, a grandmother many times over, had started out her married life. That was more years ago than she cared to reveal, but she still remembers the furniture. ''I bought a beautiful French Provincial living room set for $40 from a couple that was getting a divorce,'' she said. ''It was practically new. I had a white lamp with angels on either side. My husband bought me a black wooden bedroom set from a place on Rockaway Avenue. Afterward my grandmother told me never to buy there again.

She said, 'He's repossessing people's furniture.' '' New Crib With a Mattress At RSD, hidden among the clutter, Mrs. Adeyeye found a handsome used walnut dresser and two nightstands for $75. Prodded by Mrs. Legree, the store manager, Willie Scott, made some telephone calls. ''I can get you a new crib with a mattress for $124.50,'' he said. ''I can have it for you tomorrow.'' ''Most stores charge $149, $150,'' Mrs. Legree said. Mrs. Adeyeye became interested in a set of the World Book Encyclopedia, but was disappointed when she saw it was dated 1971. ''My daughter Tamika loves to read,'' she told Mrs. Legree with immense pride. Mrs. Adeyeye said she left school in the 11th grade when, she had Tamika. ''I want to go back to school,'' she told Mrs. Legree. ''I want to start a good life.'' Mrs. Legree is a sympathetic listener, and she says her clients, who are mostly young single mothers, often confide in her, over the furniture. ''I always wonder what happens to them,'' she said.