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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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

    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

    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 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

    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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    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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    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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    We got a new sofa bed and I have to share how impr We got a new sofa bed and I have to share how impressed we are with it! 🤩 With family and guests coming to stay in the summer, and no guest bedroom, we decided to finally buy a sofa bed for my study. After careful measuring to work out what we could actually fit (there's a big archway on the left and a built-in cupboard to contend with) we bought the double sized Cushy Sofa bed from @koala. The slim arms meant it would fit and the promised delivery time meant it should arrive a couple of days before our Christmas guests. 
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Woaah - modern sofa beds have come a long way from the thin, squeaky contraptions of our youth! 😍 It's comfy as a sofa, and as a bed. The mattress is very firm/supportive and while I personally like a softer bed, our guests all said it was a comfortable sleep 😴 The design is so clever - it folds out easily into a bed in seconds (swipe to see video) and no need to store extra pillows if storage is tight - you can use the four pillows it comes with 🛌 
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They must have been doing a pre-Christmas special - we ordered it on a Thursday night and had guaranteed delivery for arrival on Monday. Which it did 😆 I know in an era of COVID delays and long shipping turnarounds that these things do not always happen, so I think it's worth shouting out when it all goes right! 🎉 Koala's customer service was also really good. The only issue is Luka seems to think we got it so she can have her own room 😐
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Now I just have two questions for you, as I'm stuck! Does the fabric colour go with the existing green of my built-in? One day I'd LOVE to wall in this study with a cavity slider - but it's a way off. I've always wanted a cosy all-green study - could I paint all the walls in here, or would that look weird being part of an open-plan space? Your thoughts.... I need them 🙏🏽
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    Hope you all had a beautiful Christmas! It was Lu Hope you all had a beautiful  Christmas! It was Luka's first one with us and she was wonderful, except when she decided to put her long legs to use by trying to snatch the baked ham off the table 😳 Thieving aside, we do love her - she is so good with the kids. Such a happy dummy and loves to make everyone laugh; it's like having our own personal clown.

Also thank you for all your very kind words on my previous post. I was blown away 🥹 I read every single one and haven't even managed to reply to all yet but I just wanted to say I appreciated the kindness in every single one ❤️ you are the best tribe! 😊
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    Recently, we said goodbye to our beautiful Nala 💔 Our soul dog for sure.
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Nala loved people fiercely. Even non-dog people and those scared of big dogs would come round after meeting Nala. She gave forceful hugs, where she would press her head against your heart and croon to you while giving you love eyes 😍 If she met you once and liked you, you were locked into her memory forever. You could go years without seeing her, but when she saw you again she would remember you and that you were friends and where have you been?! She talked a lot.
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Nala loved a party, especially birthdays (because cake + singing + showing off her tricks) 🎉🥳 She liked nothing more than being the centre of attention. She slept every night on our bed, insisting on having her head on the pillow, tucked in and spooned by Mr Nerd under the doona in winter; the hairy third person in our marriage. 
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Nala loved the beach, eating and high fives. I've never known a dog who loved the camera so much; she took great pride in her modelling. She never cared much for children, becoming martyr-like as she put up with them invading our home 😆 Since puppyhood, she always had a great disdain for other dogs, except for her sweet bestie Molly. She drove us crazy barking when you opened the washing machine. She got huffy when you tried to shove her because she was taking up all the space on the bed. But somehow Nala was always perfectly imperfect in her obstinacy and rudeness and fierce intensity. 
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We are sad, and the house feels so empty. I know we're lucky to have had her for 13 years, but man she left a big hole. She grew up with us as we became adults; and everyone we knew adored this weird crazy dog. I will be eternally grateful that she passed peacefully and painlessly with us both there, snuggled in our arms at home, being reminded of how cool she is 😎💛
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    I got Mr Nerd (and his friend 🥸🐛😶) to com I got Mr Nerd (and his friend 🥸🐛😶) to come with me to an industry event last night. All I had to say was, "it's a pasta making workshop" and he was there 🍝🥂 A beautifully styled and very creative night hosted by family-run @myareeceramics to get together, eat good food, make some dubious cavatelli (harder than it looks okay) and get a peek of MC's Collections 2023, showcasing the latest tile trends from the recent Cersaie exhibition in Italy. Loved the food and pasta class from @miscusifood, blooms from @be_botanics and the stunning tablescapes with tiles, so you could pick up and touch them all - I liked the Mar and Terracreta ranges in particular 💙 Definitely adding to that itch to renovate again.
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    So excited to give our old table a makeover! ✨ I So excited to give our old table a makeover! ✨ I've had this dining table for 12 years! 😅 It was the first big, new, expensive thing I bought for my house in my 20s, from @east_west_design (and I ate Mi Goreng noodles for three months because of it haha). Since then, this table has seen all our board game parties, birthday cakes, jigsaw puzzles, art clubs, Christmas lunches, Cluedo nights and long late night games of Stratego with cups of tea. But the dark reddish mahogany colour had never really been to our taste, even back then.

It's still a really solid, well-made table - so finally, I spent a Saturday giving it a facelift 🤩 I used our plug-in random orbital sander for the tabletop, and for the little crevices I used a detail sander from BLACK+DECKER's new reviva™ Power Tools range - which are made from recycled plastic bottles! ♻️ Packaged in fully recyclable cardboard boxes, this @blackanddeckerau range will repurpose more than 10 million single-use plastic bottles, diverting them from landfill. The 12V Cordless Detail Sander is made from 11 bottles alone! 🌱😮 Ideal for small DIYs, it is perfect for little details on projects, like the leg joins on this table. To seal, I used @britishpaints clear, water-based satin Timber Protect, with a cheeky drop of Feast Watson Prooftint in Baltic Pine added for some depth and warmth 💛😁 Now the table looks so much better and lighter in our house 😊

Now I just have to sand back the six chairs... and yep, I know they're totally circa-2009, but they are THE comfiest dining chairs, come over, sit your bum down and I'll prove it 😆💛 I know I'm showing you how nerdy I really am, but sometimes I'll stick with comfort over trends 🤓
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    [AD] I’m certainly not the first person on Insta [AD] I’m certainly not the first person on Insta to talk about a boxed mattress… but I like to think I know a little, because we have now tried out FIVE different types! 😆 And hands-down the brand that me and hubby, Miss Nerd, and 49 beanie babies agree is the best value and quality is @emma.mattress.au 🏆 We have had their award-winning Emma Comfort in Miss Nerd’s room coming up to a year now, and it still feels as good as the day we unboxed it 🥰⭐ There is a reason the Emma Comfort was voted the #1 recommended mattress by CHOICE two years in a row. Made in Germany, these pressure-relieving foam mattresses are perfect for busy kids; firm and supportive, but still feel soft and cosy ☁️ If you prefer a hybrid mattress, the Emma Diamond might be a better choice – it is foam and spring, designed especially for people with back problems. We also use Emma Foam pillows, and it is the best pillow I have owned ⭐😴
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Emma's price points are excellent – especially when they have their sales and you can knock a few hundred off! Check out the @emma.mattress.au sale at the link in my Stories - everything is currently up to 50% off, and you can use my discount code HOUSENERD to knock off a further 5% 😊⭐🤩
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