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  • Advice

    How to Choose the Perfect Cabinet Handles and Hardware (and a Giveaway!)

    July 12, 2021July 13, 2021

    This post was sponsored by Manovella. Thanks for supporting my blog’s wonderful sponsors. There are so many decisions to be made when you are renovating an older home or building a new house – if you’ve ever felt a little conflicted or stuck, you won’t be alone! Choosing colours, materials and things for your home

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  • Happier Home

    How We Made Our Old House Warmer

    July 4, 2021August 1, 2021

    Who’s feeling the cold right now? Yes, I know the whole running joke about people in winter in Perth, where it gets to 16 degrees (60 Fahrenheit for those of you overseas) and people start squawking and moaning that they’re freezing to death. To give people overseas an idea, it never snows in Western Australia.

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  • Advice

    8 Expert Tips to Film a Great Home Tour Video

    May 1, 2021June 11, 2021

    This post was sponsored by Ted’s Camera Stores. Thank you for supporting my blog’s wonderful sponsors. Wow, Perth – what a crazy time to sell a house! The real estate market in WA – well really, the real estate market in most of Australia – is going nuts at the moment. In some parts, homes

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  • DIY

    How to Stencil Paint an Old Concrete or Tiled Floor

    February 25, 2021May 3, 2021

    Sometimes I think of a renovating or DIY project and then I become weirdly obsessed with the idea until I get to carry it out. And something I’ve always wanted to try is stencil painting an old concrete or tile floor. I always thought that stenciling looked like fun. (My idea of fun might be

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  • DIY

    How to Paint an Old Concrete Driveway

    February 6, 2021May 3, 2021

    Guys, don’t think that just because I have a house blog that I’m always super gung-ho about getting started on our long list of things we want to fix up here. That is definitely not the case. I procrastinate a lot, sometimes because I’m scared of making the wrong choice, because I just can’t make

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  • Before & After

    A Resourceful Makeover for my Mum’s Guest Bed (my old teen bedroom!)

    September 19, 2020August 2, 2021

    For much of my adult life, I’ve had the same recurring dream; I’m in a big house and I discover a secret passage or a secret room. It’s always quite thrilling and I always wake up feeling vaguely disappointed that there is absolutely no chance that my 1970s brick 3 x 2 in Perth suburbia

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  • Home Projects

    Our Cubbyhouse Makeover

    February 7, 2020February 22, 2020

    Pass me that mother of the year baton, guys. I don’t get to have it too often, but I totally deserve to hold it for a good minute or two. I won a cubbyhouse! I won it late last year through an Instagram competition held by a local Perth cubbyhouse company called Kidzshack. To enter,

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  • Home Projects

    Spray Painting Our Old Colorbond Sheds

    October 8, 2019February 17, 2021

    Recently I tackled a DIY project at our place that had been on my to-do list for a LONG time – spray painting our old Colorbond sheds black. Woohoo! I know they are just sheds, but they look SO much better now that it legitimately thrills me. I had it in my head for months

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  • Home Projects

    How to Make An Amazing Succulent Bowl

    September 15, 2019June 8, 2021

    If you have ever admired a pretty succulent bowl but thought they looked too tricky to make one at home (or that you’d kill it anyway) I have good news! Succulent bowls are super-easy to put together; and even if you’re a total black thumb with plants, you can keep one alive and thriving, I

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  • DIY

    How To Make DIY Wallpaper from An Old Book

    August 9, 2019April 20, 2021

    This post was first published on my original blog format on November 17, 2014.  Today I’m going to share a very easy DIY project – one that I think is maybe my favourite DIY project ever. I feel like everyone should do this to their home, partly because it is so easy, but mostly because

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  • Home Projects

    Our Budget Nursery Makeover: Miss Nerd’s Room

    June 24, 2019April 23, 2021

    Not everything about writing a blog is fun and roses. But one of the things I love most about blogging being a part of my life is that it gives me so many kicks up the butt – deadlines and incentives to finally get my act together and do something. I need these kicks up

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    How To: DIY Beautiful Shampoo and Bathroom Bottles

    March 12, 2018September 12, 2021

    There’s nothing like stepping into your beautiful, blissful bathroom renovation, carefully designed in a minimalist colour palette of tasteful neutrals… only for your eye to be immediately drawn to the stash of colourful, garishly labelled shampoo and conditioner bottles in your shower. Am I being a little OCD? Yeah, I know it’s a first world

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  • Advice

    How to Clad Over a Double Brick House

    October 21, 2017February 23, 2020

    Since we have started our project to rejuvenate the exterior of our house using Scyon Walls™cladding, I have been blown away by the number of people interested in these products and asking me questions about it. I’m not blown away because I’m surprised – I think the products are fantastic – but blown away by

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  • Happier Home

    How to Minimise External Noise Coming Into Your Home

    December 16, 2016February 23, 2020

    Hi House Nerd, I live in an old home in Fremantle that I am renovating and would love some tips on how to reduce road noise in my house. Being close to the street and constructed of weatherboard I hear every car that passes and it is getting quite frustrating especially when trying to sleep.

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  • Home Renovations

    How We Turned Our 70s Bar into a Walk-In Pantry

    May 26, 2015February 14, 2020

    So I have exciting news – our new walk-in pantry/scullery renovation is finished! I think this may actually be my favourite renovated room in the house now (although I think I say that about every room once we finish it, even the toilet). But I AM in love with our new pantry. I first learned about

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  • Happier Home

    A Mother of Three’s Completely Edible Suburban Garden

    March 8, 2015February 25, 2020

    Can you be self-sufficient from the average-sized suburban garden? I don’t know, but the owner of this one is definitely trying – and she has such an awesome garden that I think half of you will be itching to plant sweet potatoes or peaches this weekend. I was introduced to home owner Kate Reading by

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  • DIY

    How to Paint Tiles: Our Budget Kitchen Makeover

    April 30, 2014February 22, 2020

    If you are looking for an inexpensive, easy way to update your kitchen or bathroom, tile paint could be the way to go. Today I’m going to share how we used it to give our dated, 1970s tile a mini-makeover for less than $100. Yesterday I showed you guys the before photos of our kitchen when we

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    DIY: How to Make a Pressed Tin Bedhead

    April 14, 2014May 24, 2021

    Today’s post is about how we made this bedhead out of pressed tin panels for our main suite – a nice way of adding impact and charm into our rather small bedroom. When we gave our bedroom a makeover, one of the major things Mr Nerd and I knew we had to do was upgrade

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  • Home Projects

    How to Make Shelves from Reclaimed Wood: DIY

    February 25, 2014February 25, 2020

    Check out my new shelves in our toilet! Yes, you read that right. Today, while the house is filled with the noise of Mr Nerd drilling away on our bathroom renovation, I am going to blog about our toilet. I aim to thrill. But seriously, I love how we improved the toilet with the addition

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  • Furniture

    A Roadside Find: Thonet Chair Makeover

    January 13, 2014February 25, 2020

    Don’t you just love an exciting email out the blue? When a design-savvy House Nerd reader dropped me an email a little while ago to tell me that it was verge collection time in East Fremantle, I was out the door and driving thataway before you could say let’s-drag-home-some-more-junk (thank you, Deb!) Hey, I can

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    Before & After

    My ‘Monica’s Closet’ – My Junk Room Turned Studio

    December 18, 2013June 11, 2021

    Hands up if you have a junk room in your house. Or a junk cupboard? Come on – at least a junk drawer? If you have none of these, and your entire house is as organised as Martha Stewart’s pantry, I envy you. But if you have that messy part of your house that has

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  • Happier Home

    10 Tips for Styling a Home on a Budget

    October 6, 2013May 15, 2021

    When it comes to creating a beautiful and comfortable home, you really don’t need a ton of spare cash. No, really! I’m often awed by people who pull off a gorgeous home given only a tight budget. Of all the designers and decorators I know, one of those who is very, very good at styling

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  • Advice

    Renovating a Rental… As A Tenant

    August 14, 2013May 15, 2021

    “Dear Nelly and Sam, I just wanted to say thank you for being such wonderful tenants, looking after the house so well and particularly for all the improvements you made. The bathroom looks particularly wonderful. I love the photos on the blog site… from that I got the impression you enjoyed living there as much

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  • DIY

    Our Budget Sunroom Makeover – & How to Spray Paint Aluminium Windows

    February 13, 2013February 13, 2020

    If you grew up in our sun-bleached country, like me, you will be familiar with one of the great Australian home features – the ubiquitous sunroom, or sleepout. When I was a kid so many of my friends’ houses had a sleepout – and so many still do. Commonly tacked onto the back of 60s

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    One of my long-time favourite local MCM houses is One of my long-time favourite local MCM houses is for sale! 😍 I would buy this sweet house if I could. I've loved driving past this house since I was a kid. Imagine curling up with a book in that cosy sunroom while it's raining, or playing board games in the dining room, the lights of the city skyline in the distance 🌃🤩 AND when you wake up the morning after your wine-fuelled Take Two and Dutch Blitz shenanigans, in just two minutes you can walk to some of the best coffee in Perth, @grouchandco! ☕ The interior is so cute - the house been kept in the same family since it was built in 1962, which I think is so special 💛 They have selected the lovely @siobhanmicaleyardproperty to sell their house for them. 
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First pic my stalkery snap, professional pics by Clint Baker @musemediaperth ✨ Someone please, please buy it and invite me over for wine 🙏🏽 I will help you throw a 1960s-themed housewarming party. I'll bring pigs-in-a-blanket and devilled eggs 🍸
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    "No dogs sleeping on the bed next time we get a do "No dogs sleeping on the bed next time we get a dog," Mr Nerd and I vowed to each other before we brought Luka home. As you can see, it's going really well. Our resolve isn't crumbling at all 😶

Also, that big linen blanket is from my friend @bedtonic, and it might be my favourite thing I own. If you invest in one thing for your bed in the next couple of years, make it one of these! We haven't used the heater in our bedroom since we got one a few winters ago. Good time to ask for one with Mother's Day 😉 🌸 Hope you all had a lovely morning ☕
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    A few Sundays ago, we lost Chicken Nugget, our swe A few Sundays ago, we lost Chicken Nugget, our sweet little teenage chook 🐥 "I have two dogs, Nala and Luka, but Chicken Nugget died one night in Mummy's arms and now her be an angel," Miss Nerd has been telling anyone and everyone; including total strangers, who usually tend to look startled. Despite knowing she had a good innings (13), I have now officially cried more over a chicken than over any dog or cat I've owned 😭 Yes, a chicken. (And we eat chicken!)
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We'd had a really busy Sunday. We were out almost all day; the city, playground, river, came home, took the dogs to the park, had a lovely dinner at a friend's place. One of those rare blissful days where parenting just lines up; everything is fun and easy and everyone is happy. We got home, I got the kids down. It was later at night when I went to let the dogs out the back, and saw a fluffy bundle lying by the back door. My heart sank. I thought she was already dead. She was sleeping. I brought her inside and got her warm cuddled her in my lap. She died in my arms around midnight.
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I've had so many pets; experienced so many animal deaths. This one was the hardest 💔 Even though she had a nice chicken life and was SO old! I think what made me feel so broken up with this one was that so many animals go to die somewhere by themselves. In her last hours CN crawled up to the back door, to us. I felt so bad that she might have been suffering and I was too caught up running around all day; too busy with everyone else to notice. I felt so guilty - it took me a while to get over that 😔💔 The kids were gutted and still talk about how they miss her, Miss Nerd the most, as CN was her special (long-suffering, gentle and very patient) little friend. "But now Chicken Nugget is an angel in heaven and she has four wings not just two, and she can FLY with those wings," Miss Nerd says, and that is a pretty good image to keep. 💛🐥
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    WIN ✨ A double pass to the amazing @rooftopmovie WIN ✨ A double pass to the amazing @rooftopmovies and a voucher for a delicious bottle of @madfishwines to share 🥂🍷 One of my favourite Perth things to do is to relax by watching a movie outdoors and with a wine in hand - we definitely have the beautiful evening weather for it! 🌄 @rooftopmovies has become such an icon and what better way to enjoy it than with delicious, local family-owned @madfishwines - the official WA partner of this year's Fringe World Perth and Rooftop Movies. Here's your chance to make it there before the end of the season!
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    With Easter and Mother's Day not far away, I wante With Easter and Mother's Day not far away, I wanted to share present ideas from two really nice small businesses that kindly sent me the most beautiful things 💛🥺 They are the kinds of special things that feel SO nice I have to keep firmly reminding myself: "USE them! Don't just keep them at the back of the cupboard for 'special occasions'!" (It's so easy to do that isn't it?!)
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The first small business is @_cottoncollective_. Based in Perth, Lisa curates the prettiest 100 percent cotton, block-printed tablecloths and textiles like tea towels, cushions and cot blankets. I lover her videos of block printing being done - it is such an art. This is the Hamptons blue tablecloth, carefully block-printed by hand by artisans in India. I really like her Wildwood design too... well, I like them all 🤷🏽‍♀️ She offers free shipping through Australia 📦
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The second biz is @intheroundhouse, based in Sydney. They sell really fun, colourful plates and placemats; meant to be mix n match and eclectic (I approve) 🌈 I have some plates from their Blue Collection, some from their Italian collection, and a prawn 🦐 (everyone wants the prawn). Impressively they are dishwasher safe, which makes the higher price tag worth it 👌🏽 They are so bold they make setting the table fun - I find myself shouting, "PREGO" like Hilary Duff in The Lizzie McGuire Movie. (An iconic piece of cinema).
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    It's little and modest, but this weatherboard cott It's little and modest, but this weatherboard cottage is an icon. Familiar? This is the North Fremantle home famous for belonging to Carmel Mullally, or the ‘lady who lives in the port’ 🏠👵🏻Originally built in 1897, at 28 Bayly Street opposite Port Beach, this worker’s cottage became a symbol of resilience and strength, as the huge Fremantle Port sprung up around it over the years. 
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Ms Mullally moved into her house in the 1950s with her husband James. Despite her neighbours moving, every other nearby house being bulldozed, and the port becoming bigger and noisier, with the ever-constant hum of forklifts, freight trains, oil tankers and shipping containers being stacked - Ms Mullally refused to move. 
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She always said she loved living by the ocean and that her cottage gave her everything she needed. And she liked trains. 
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Ms Mullally endured a five decade-long battle to keep her home, with multiple offers and pressure from government authorities to buy her house starting way back in 1963, five years after she moved in. 
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A loved member of North Freo’s community, she became a symbol of resilience and strength. “I wasn’t keen on letting my house go – I’d worked for it,” she said. While she and the port authorities had some differences over the years – she famously painted slogans on her walls in the 80s telling the authorities to leave her alone - eventually their relationship came to a place of mutual respect. 
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Her little cottage was finally heritage-listed by Fremantle Council in 2007, saving it from ever being bulldozed, and Ms Mullally happily continued to live there amidst the bustle of the port work until her late 80s. 
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Last year, she had to move into aged care, and she sadly passed away earlier this summer at 89. I think she sounds awesome (my novel cont. in comments!)
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