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  • Home Envy

    An Idyllic 1950s Cottage in Carlisle

    September 29, 2021October 5, 2021

    What would you want if you were about to sell the house you’d called home for the past ten years? The home that you and your partner slowly, fixed up over the years, painting, DIY-ing and landscaping. The house to which you’d brought two babies home from the hospital, and spent hours playing with your

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  • Happier Home

    A House Decorated by Marketplace – and Tips for Thrifting

    January 23, 2020February 7, 2020

    Of all the bad things to come out of Facebook – the creepy harvesting of our online data, a rise in loneliness, infidelities kindled from long-lost acquaintances, the erosion of individual self-worth through unfavourable comparison, to name just a few – there are also a lot of good things. For example, I re-met my now-husband

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  • Home Envy

    An Energy Efficient 1960s Renovation in Bayswater

    June 2, 2019February 7, 2020

    Bayswater is one of my favourite suburbs in Perth. If you don’t know it; think old farmhouses, sleepy streets, old trees, character houses with tons of potential, and little pockets of former farming land that make you feel like you could have stepped back in time. It has so much perfectly unpolished charm, and it

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  • Before & After

    Penshurst – A Sea Captain’s Mansion Saved from Ruin

    May 22, 2019October 16, 2019

    I have a soft spot for Penshurst, the historic house I’m going to share with you today – which was actually one of my very first home tours – in fact I visited it before I’d even clicked ‘publish’ on my first blog post! (Original post here). When I was a teenager, after school my

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    Home Envy

    A Solar Passive ‘Shed-House’ in the Country

    May 7, 2019August 9, 2019

    Rolling country views, a pony, dogs, a beautiful solar passive new build, a lovely family and two pet sheep who are convinced they are people – this wonderful home visit was one of my favourites and I’m so pleased to share it here today with these gorgeous photos by Heather. Nestled in the Perth hills

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  • Home Envy

    A Timeless Federation Bungalow in Coolbinia

    March 22, 2019June 25, 2019

    This beautiful home has just gone on the market with Nadija Begovich and Dan Broad of The Perth Property Co. Buying a house in beautiful Coolbinia was a dream come true for then newly-engaged couple Ash and Lisa Mitchell. Both Ash and Lisa had always loved character homes and when the chance came to buy

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  • Home Envy

    Before the Fire: Paganin House by Iwan Iwanoff

    March 17, 2019August 9, 2019

    I originally published this post on the old format of House Nerd here. Iwanoff fans rejoice.  Iconic Paganin House has been saved! After this famous Iwanoff home in Floreat was gutted days before Christmas 2015 by a house fire, it has now been brought back to life by the careful work of its owners and

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  • Home Renovations

    Le Fanu, Perth’s Most Expensive Renovation, is Now For Sale

    March 14, 2019March 16, 2019

    Le Fanu, Perth’s most expensive home renovation, is up for sale. If you could do with a luxury beach home and have a spare $17 million, this heritage-listed house could be yours! Some of you guys may remember the story I wrote a few years ago on this house. Right by the beach in Cottesloe

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  • Home Envy

    The Hilton Fibro Cottage Renovation

    January 3, 2019January 7, 2019

    I love this house. This is the former home of our friends Tim and Caity Phillips, it’s a cool renovation and a house that I like because it suits its owners down to a tee. You guys may already know Tim’s name from some of my earlier posts; he and his TJP Carpentry team put

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  • Home Envy

    A New Hamptons-Style House in Wembley Downs

    May 19, 2018June 25, 2019

    Having built four houses across a range of looks from coastal to Colonial to contemporary, empty nesters Debra and Steve knew exactly what style they wanted their next home to be. The end result is what they both call their dream house – a beautiful, timeless Hamptons-style home perfect for dinner parties and entertaining. Beginning

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    A Stunning Nedlands Home Designed for Three Generations

    April 18, 2018April 18, 2018

    With increasing urban sprawl and an ageing elderly population, there is one kind of home we’re now seeing more of – the multi-generational home. And I have to say they rarely get lovelier than this. This gorgeous home is a new one I recently had the pleasure of visiting. This house is named the Oak

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  • Home Envy

    From 70s Brick Box to Timeless Beach House

    March 31, 2018August 5, 2019

    I love Perth. But in my humble opinion, the rugged NSW coast has to be one of the most beautiful and special parts of Australia. A few years ago my sister-in-law relocated from Sydney to live in a beach house in a small town a couple of hours south of the city (just near Berry,

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  • Home Envy

    An Old Lady Cottage Freshened Up for a Young Family

    February 15, 2018February 16, 2018

    What do you do when you love renovating and building and are itching to do it again… but you love your current location, which is just perfect for your family? Well, it might not happen very often, but these two dedicated renovators sold their much-loved labour of love – and built their next home right

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  • Home Envy

    A Light and Bright Home Renovation in North Fremantle

    October 13, 2017May 4, 2018

    When I am scrolling through Instagram, the photos always guaranteed to stop me in my tracks are ones of renovating. Maybe it’s because I have always been obsessed with a good before and after story – all the bits, from the demo to the drywall to the decking being laid out – but there is

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    Home Renovations

    A 1980s Renovated Home on a Steep Scarborough Site

    August 25, 2017August 25, 2017

    Amy and Andrew Palmer-Millin stumbled upon their new home by accident. They were house-hunting in seaside Scarborough and were on their way to a different home open when they chanced upon the place that was to become their next home. “We accidentally went to see the house, it wasn’t on our list to view at

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  • Home Envy

    A Federation House Renovation in Mount Lawley

    August 25, 2017August 2, 2019

    What better way to celebrate turning 100 than with a makeover that makes you feel beautiful? If houses could talk, this stunning Federation home in Mount Lawley would certainly agree. Once beautiful back in its heyday, this old Federation home had many charming character details. But over the decades it had fallen into disrepair and

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  • Home Envy

    A DIY Makeover for a Daggy 70s Willetton Home

    August 20, 2017May 8, 2019

    Would you buy a house you hated? Could you make an offer on a home with an interior you didn’t like at all – a home that was actually a particularly ugly example of the era it was built? Home owners Craig and Emma Croxford did – buying a 1970s Willetton house that was so

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    The Frank House by Iwan Iwanoff

    August 20, 2017September 25, 2017

    So I’m going to make a bold call here, but I have to call it – I think I’ve found my favourite Iwan Iwanoff house yet. (At least my fave of all the ones I’ve visited so far!) It’s this quietly shy beauty – the Frank House in Menora. The house is owned by Michael and Carmen

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  • Home Envy

    The Nature-Inspired Eco House

    August 19, 2017July 29, 2019

    Well, this is it, guys – hands-down one of the coolest houses I’ve had the honour of featuring on House Nerd! This is Nature Inspired Eco House. Designed for a tiny 200sqm infill block in the city, this two-storey, solar passive new home is eco-friendly and runs on renewable energy (with no air-con). Built from a

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  • Before & After

    Saved From Knockdown: A 1970s Family House Reno

    February 17, 2017April 8, 2020

    When Penny and Mat bought a dark, dated and daggy 1970s home in City Beach, they thought it might be a knockdown job – and their friends presumed they would bulldoze it and build anew, too. But when Penny and Mat decided that instead they were going to renovate and extend to make it a

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  • Home Envy

    Two Apartment House: The Ground Floor Apartment

    July 22, 2016July 29, 2019

    This story was originally published on my old blog format on July 26, 2016. The house I’m sharing with you today is so cool – and ahead of the general Perth design curve. Built on a tiny inner-city infill block just 200sqm in size, it’s a freestanding house that has been designed to comfortably accommodate

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  • Home Envy

    The Woodbridge Weatherboard Renovation

    June 21, 2016June 25, 2018

    This story first appeared on my original House Nerd blog here. It was dilapidated, needed love and had slowly deteriorated to the point that almost none of the doors and windows could be closed properly. But there was something mesmerising about the old weatherboard cottage that drew young couple and serial renovators Nat and Trent

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  • Home Envy

    The Eco-Friendly Small House in Maylands

    April 27, 2016July 29, 2019

    I have been a fan of the houses of WA architect Ben Mountford for a while now. You might remember I did a story a few years ago on the renovation and extension he designed for this old Mt Hawthorn cottage, which won him an architecture award. His homes are cool; yet relaxed and liveable, different; but not

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  • Home Envy

    A 1940s Cottage Renovation in Maylands

    April 3, 2016June 9, 2021

    When first home buyer and building designer Janik Dalecki bought a dumpy little Maylands cottage, his friends thought he had lost the plot. “The house ticked all my boxes and I instantly saw what potential it had,” he says. “But family and friends thought I was crazy and said things like, ‘it’s a bowl-over’!” But Janik,

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  • Before & After

    A 1903 Worker’s Cottage Reno

    March 17, 2015February 17, 2020

    I have always loved the tiny, original workers’ cottages in suburbs like Leederville, Subiaco and Fremantle. But although I look at them from the outside and admire their quaintness and charm, often I think that I could never live in one – I presume that they must almost always be way too small and cramped

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  • Home Envy

    A 1960s Cottage in a Quiet Country Town

    February 27, 2015May 19, 2021

    I felt like I was going back in time a bit when I went to visit this house. In a quiet town about an hour’s drive out of Perth, this 1960s red brick cottage is home to interior designer Hayley Kessner, 31, (known as Hayley Gemma) and her husband Chadd, 38, a builder and construction manager.

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  • Home Envy

    The Pretty Palmyra Weatherboard Cottage

    January 7, 2015May 2, 2021

    I love all the houses I put on House Nerd. But with its unpretentious character details, classic weatherboard build and young owners who DIYed and decorated the whole house on a shoestring budget with lots of secondhand, op shop and side-of-the-road finds, this Palmyra cottage felt extra-special to me the moment I entered. I grew

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  • Home Envy

    A Spooky Old Sea Captain’s Mansion

    October 28, 2014July 4, 2021

    Some people like gardens that are perfectly neat, with not a weed in sight or leaf out of place. But I tend to prefer the messy, crazy, overgrown ones; big and rambling, or small courtyard gardens, I like ones that enshroud their houses in dark jungle-like thickets. To me a crazy overgrown garden is so

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  • Home Envy

    Marimekko House – An Architect’s Home with a Rooftop Garden

    June 2, 2014February 12, 2020

    Architect Ariane Prevost is not what I had been expecting. I’ve gone to chat with her at her famous home, Marimekko House. I’ve been there less than two minutes and already am realising that this is an architect very different to most I know. You can freely accuse me of stereotyping an entire profession here,

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  • Home Envy

    A Small, Coastal-Inspired East Fremantle Home

    September 1, 2013July 6, 2021

    Would you trust your mum or dad to put an offer on a house for you – without seeing it in person yourself? This East Fremantle cottage was bought, sight unseen, by globetrotters Vanessa Fordham and Karl Cramond, the founders and owners of exclusive wedding and events styling and hire company Villa Kula. Since selling their business

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    One of my favourite pieces of tech in our home is One of my favourite pieces of tech in our home is our @sproutaus Immerse Bluetooth Speaker. I was gifted one of these for a review two years ago, and we still use it all the time. The sound quality is so good, and I really notice how being able to play your favourite music easily boosts your mood and enhances your day-to-day life 🎶😊
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To be honest, I said yes to receiving this initially to be able to give it to Mr Nerd, who is a huge music fan. I knew it would score me points! 😁 But the truth is the speaker has been something our whole family loves. We play music on it while cooking, baking, prepping oranges for Boy Nerd’s football.... I can’t believe I’ve become a footy mum now -  I don’t smile like this on those freezing early mornings! 🥶😆 It also gets a workout during dinner parties, barbecues, we take it on holidays, and it fits on the basket of my e-Bike for picnics. The rechargeable battery offers up to 4 to 5 hours of unplugged playtime 🎶
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Immerse also has two built-in wireless charging pads for effortless convenience – you can charge two phones off it at once! No more slyly unplugging your partner’s phone to charge your own 😉📱<📱
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    Perfect rainy weather for sofa snuggles 🌧️ Th Perfect rainy weather for sofa snuggles 🌧️ This beautiful blanket was a gift from my dear friend Julie @bedtonic. Handmade in Nepal from natural fibres, it is SO SOFT with gorgeous fringed edges. Being cashmere and wool, it's also smell-resistant - great if you have a pet 😆 Bedtonic only sell 'forever' pieces and this is definitely one 🖤
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Speaking of forever pieces, I've talked to so many friends lately about paring back the stuff in our homes. We are all in the same boat with busy lives and work, but want our homes to be more minimal and easier to pick up and manage. I've donated a lot.... but there are some 'forever things' I never will:
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1. My 1930s oak cabinet. A gift from friends for my 28th birthday. It makes me feel like a real grown up 😜 I used to hide my fancy chocolate in it - the kids and hubby would run past it in plain sight a hundred times a day 😶‍🌫️ It was from @postirving (who are back open now!)
2. Two gifts given to me when Nala died. A @winterwares bud vase from @tanya.birnie, and my mini-Nala, handmade as a surprise for me by the beautiful soul behind @something.scouted 🥹 Yep, I cried happy tears when I opened it. 
3. The antique clock. A heirloom from my hubby's family. I love how it looks, hate the hourly chiming! You can turn the sound off with a key. Sometimes to annoy me Mr Nerd has turned it on and hidden the key 🙄
4 Smoking is bad, but this cigarette tin was one of the only items my dad had when he came to Australia so to me it is special. A little reminder of how hard he worked for us and where hard work can get you. 
5. Our cups from Stewart Scambler. Handmade ceramics just FEEL special 🤎
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    House creeping in leafy suburbs with @tanya_birnie House creeping in leafy suburbs with @tanya_birnie 🌿 I actually took a photo of the first house years ago because I love it so much. But this time there was a dog out the front which now makes it an 11/10 instead of a 10/10 🏆🐩 Let's play! Which lovely old brick home would you have: 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5? 
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    Well, this customised Monopoly set officially wins Well, this customised Monopoly set officially wins first place for the best business birthday gift - maybe even PR gift - I've ever seen 😆🏆 Local WA building company @plunketthomes recently celebrated their 120th birthday - and sent me this amazing Monopoly set... custom-made to feature Perth suburbs they've built in. Made me laugh. No boots or Scottie dogs either, btw - all the tokens are building tools! You can buy up and build your way through WA suburbs including Cottesloe, Melville and East Freo... notably missing Joondalup and Morley though 😜 "And Dog Swamp," said Mr Nerd. 
"You realise Dog Swamp is not a suburb, right?" I said. 
(We are still arguing. Google is not cooperating).
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As a builder @plunketthomes sit under the @jwhgroup umbrella, along with @oswaldhomes, @ruralbuildingcompany and @wacountrybuilders. I've written about so many JWH homes over the years, and never visited one I didn't love. Not surprised Plunkett are celebrating 120 years of success - congratulations guys 🥳🎂🥂 Looking forward to many more games of building hotels in Dalkeith 💰😏
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    Some lovely rain for our summer-parched garden and Some lovely rain for our summer-parched garden and a new blog post 😊 I got a DM recently asking how the driveway we painted in lockdown with @crommelin_australia Tinted Sealer was holding up now. With both old and new driveway to stitch together somehow, this was a job we would have loved to hire out but wasn't in the budget, so we did it DIY  for about $400. I thought I'd show pictures I took today - two years on and after daily use. Just letting you know, I didn't tidy or clean up our garden for your visit. That means we are real friends now 😜 Will link blog post in my Stories 🖤 
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    If you saw my little front door makeover the other If you saw my little front door makeover the other day, then you might have seen our newest addition - our video doorbell! 💛Some of you might understand me here – sometimes, you just don’t FEEEL like answering the door to certain people. Right? 

I recently partnered with @swannsecurity to review a couple of their home security options, and had way too much fun creating some content to show their SwannBuddy Video Doorbell 😬😅 Can you guess who I am in each one? I'll be impressed if anyone gets them all right 😜 Who do you like seeing at your doorstep? Who do you NOT answer the door to?

Designed to give young families peace of mind and a feeling of safety at home, I’m impressed with this doorbell. I've put my pros and  cons on the blog, but I can't see us going back to not having one. So good being able to see who is there before you answer it... or don’t 😆 And so useful seeing if you've had a delivery while you're out. Thanks Swann for giving me a fun excuse to have fun with this... the only awkward moment was when a delivery guy came by while I was pretending to be a delivery guy 😬🫥
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