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  • Before & After

    Making Over my Mum’s Guest Room (my old teen bedroom!)

    September 19, 2020September 19, 2020

    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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  • 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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  • Happier Home

    Make Your Home Beautiful with Bambury (and WIN a $500 Gift Voucher!)

    December 15, 2019February 7, 2020

    If you are after one of the quickest, most affordable and also easiest ways to freshen up a bedroom or living space, I always think new cushions are a fail-proof way to go. Nothing brightens and lifts a space quite as easily! Add in a fresh new plant and you’ve treated your room or outdoor

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  • DIY

    How To Make DIY Wallpaper from An Old Book

    August 9, 2019December 15, 2019

    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

    Florence Broadhurst Blinds for Your Home (and WIN!)

    April 18, 2019August 9, 2019

    Would you like Florence Broadhurst patterned blinds in your home? Or would you prefer to design your own pattern and have it printed and custom-made just for you? Whatever your fancy, you can have the most stylish windows going with one of the newer window treatment companies to make waves on the market, Blinds in

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  • Our House

    From Bugcatchers to Bluetooth LEDs: Our Lighting Makeover

    March 31, 2019April 14, 2019

    “I just want lights on a dimmer,” I used to say to my husband every time the topic of new lights came up. I remember when I was growing up and my friend’s house had their lounge room lights on a dimmer and I thought mood lighting was just the most incredible fancy thing I’d

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  • Advice

    How to Update Dated Lighting in an Older Home

    March 3, 2019March 21, 2019

    The right lights can have a major effect on a room or an interior. In fact there are few things that can date a home more quickly than old, daggy lighting. Hello boob lights and oyster lights! No matter how curated and stylish your décor, or how modern your renovation, if you still have an

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  • Happier Home

    What I’d Buy on Facebook Marketplace Today (If I Wasn’t Broke)

    February 2, 2019December 16, 2019

    I was a teenager the first time someone told me I had an addictive personality, and I didn’t know what it meant. “Oh!” I said brightly. “Meaning people find me addictive?” I was picturing myself as this alluring, magnetic creature. “NO,” they shot back rudely. “It just means that you get addicted to things very

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    Home Envy

    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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  • Advice

    How to Choose the Right White Paint for Your Home

    November 3, 2017November 3, 2017

    One of the most common problems I think people have when renovating and decorating their homes is choosing the right white paint. We love our white walls in Australia, and for good reason – white walls are versatile, they feel fresh, light and airy, they work with all kinds of décor and they can make

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  • Advice

    How to Choose Great Lighting for Your Home: Tips to Give You Confidence

    November 2, 2017November 10, 2017

    Choosing lighting for our home is one thing I used to put in the ‘too hard so I don’t want to think about’ basket. It meant I would walk into a lighting store, become completely overwhelmed, argue with my husband, and then we’d just be so overwhelmed and undecided we’d walk right out again without

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    Before & After

    Before and After: A Beautiful Traditional Kitchen Renovation

    September 23, 2017September 25, 2017

    Aside from our own renovations, I haven’t often featured room makeovers on House Nerd – I’ve always gone the whole hog and done a whole house. Even though putting together full home tours – like this one – take me ages, I haven’t often done ‘room renovations’, such as a kitchen or bathroom only, because

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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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  • Before & After

    My Monica’s Closet: My Junk Room to Craft Room Makeover

    December 18, 2013February 22, 2020

    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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    Of all the cool people in Perth I've met in real l Of all the cool people in Perth I've met in real life through Instagram, @kawa_heart_studio and @8footwalls have to be two of the coolest (and nicest). Dee is a stylist,  creative and 'crazy market lady' who lets out their amazing old studio for photo shoots; her hubby Desmond is an artist and muralist under his business 8 Foot Walls. This is one of his prints which is hanging proudly in our entry now, making me happy every time I come home 🌅 This one is called Ocean Dust of Yesteryear - I'll link to their online paintings and print store in my Stories so you can see the others, they are ALL magical 🌴 Swipe for a look back in time at our entry... who would have thought that 70s arch we joyfully knocked out is back in fashion now 😆 It's funny seeing how your personal style has evolved... I no longer keep a giant cooking pot by the front door for one.
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    Before and After 🏡 In lockdown last week we man Before and After 🏡 In lockdown last week we managed to tick off a DIY that had been on our to-do list for YEARS and finally painted our ugly old concrete driveway! It cost just over $400 and even though it will never look as clean as a brand new driveway it still makes me SO happy now 🤓 Little Nerd made me the sign 🤔 (Which I thought was thoughtful and fitting as painting in summer sucks? Good band name too). Thank you @jarrahjungle for the concrete painting inspo! 🖤 I've shared a blog post with all the details and links on House Nerd now!
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    They are being cute right now, but I'm still count They are being cute right now, but I'm still counting down the sleeps till school starts and there are now four 😆 Swipe to see our 70s bar from when we moved in - with all the dark brown laminate and hand-me-down furniture we had then! 😅 We walled the bar in and knocked through a wall to make it a walk-in pantry from the kitchen - hubby's idea (he has one of those every now and then 😜💡) 
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    Can you believe this is someone's backyard... and Can you believe this is someone's backyard... and you can go buy plants there? 😄🌵🌿🪴🥰 This is a plant paradise at a home in Leeming. It's one of my recommendations when friends ask me where I go for easily accessible plants for gifts (or self-gifts 😁🎁) @novosnursery is run by a lovely family who have turned their backyard into a plant shop for anyone to pop in and browse. They have cute plants for all price points, and pots and hangers too. Also, I've found out that the cafe by the IGA across the road has great coffee - a pretty good 'me time' activity if you want to sip and stroll through succulents. They're open most weekends (at 46 Farrington Road) but they're not open every day during the week, so best to message first or look up their Facebook page for times. Not sponsored, just addicted 🌱🤩
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    We finally saved up to fit out our old walk-in rob We finally saved up to fit out our old walk-in robe! 🤩 I have been dying to do this in our attempts to make the most of our available storage spaces. 11 years spent living with the old set-up so I REALLY appreciate the new... swipe to see the before 😅🙈 And then swipe to see the EXTRA-before from when we bought this house - the robe had yellow glass 70s windows, brown floral wallpaper and aromatic original shagpile carpet. After looking at a few companies I got the robe done by the wonderful @innerspacewardrobes (and I got THEIR contact details from a lovely fellow renovator Insta-friend, @twokidsatradieandme! ✨👋🏽) Innerspace are a great family-run local business and I really liked that Steve was happy to spend time on our quote measure to make sure it was perfect. Absolutely stoked with it💃🏽
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    Nala turns 11 this month. 11! 😭 Which also mean Nala turns 11 this month. 11! 😭 Which also means we have been in this house 11 years. I genuinely thought back then that I'd probably renovate and decorate the whole 1970s thing in about two-three years (on my freelance writer's budget by the way 😂) and move into another. By the way Nala takes a soy flat white, no sugar. 
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