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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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  • Before & After

    Our Cladding Makeover Reveal

    June 21, 2019August 21, 2019

    Don’t fall off your chair. Today I finally have a reveal for you! Our before and after of our Scyon Walls elevation makeover, where we overclad the exterior of our double brick 1970s house. Yep, it’s been a while. If this is your first time to my blog, welcome! Basically we decided to overclad our

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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 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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Our House

    Nearly Finished! Our House’s Cladding Makeover (and How Much it Cost)

    September 17, 2018February 18, 2021

    Little Nerd is at his Oma’s house, Mr Nerd is at work, the dog and the baby are down and I’ve had two coffees by 9am. What better time to snatch some blogging time at my desk and hastily share some progress photos of our Scyon Walls cladding makeover. (If you haven’t seen our before

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  • Our House

    Our Living Room Makeover Series: The Before Pictures

    June 27, 2018April 5, 2019

    Even though our living room is one of the two rooms in our home where we spend the most time, after years of living here, I still never felt like we had fully finished it or properly styled it. A little embarrassing – most people seem to do the living room first, don’t they? I

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  • Before & After

    From 80s Bland to a Gorgeous Contemporary Renovation

    June 19, 2018June 19, 2018

    Whenever I hear of a young couple that has worked their butts off to get into real estate from a young age, I find it easy to empathise. Mr Nerd and I have also worked hard and made sacrifices to get on the property ladder ourselves. Unfortunately, even when you think you’ve done ‘the right

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  • Before & After

    A Reno that Makes the Most of Amazing Country Views

    June 19, 2018June 19, 2018

    Can you believe that until recently, I had never caught an episode of Selling Houses Australia (we don’t have Foxtel – at least not yet… this may now change) and the show has been around since 2008. Now in its eleventh season on Foxtel’s Lifestyle channel, this multi-award winning show is bigger than ever. I

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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 Projects

    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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  • 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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    Before & After

    Our Laundry Renovation (and my Tradie Recommendations)

    December 29, 2017December 31, 2017

    Today I’m finally sharing our laundry renovation on here! I absolutely love our laundry makeover. If you were to ask me which renovation project in our house has given me the most satisfaction, I have to say I think it would be this room. And I don’t even LIKE doing laundry. This is my favourite

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  • Before & After

    A Blissful Pool Retreat for a 100-Year-Old Rural Farmhouse

    December 10, 2017December 10, 2017

    Imagine having acres and acres of land around you, no other houses as far as the eye can see. Sounds like heaven – right? But what if it’s so many endless acres of space that every so often you actually end up craving a little more intimacy, a bit more privacy and enclosed space? That’s

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  • Nerd Life

    Renovating our House: What I’ve Learned and My Advice for Renovators

    November 20, 2017May 25, 2021

    “If we ever renovate again, I would…” “Our next house, we should do this…” These are words Mr Nerd and I have uttered to each other many a time as we’ve been ankle-deep in renovation rubble here. I am still FAR from a renovating pro, but we’ve learned a lot of things through trial and

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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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  • 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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    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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  • Our House

    Making Over Our House’s Elevation: The Design

    September 13, 2017October 6, 2017

    So I’m excited to share that we are about to start our Scyon Walls™ elevation makeover! Not long ago I shared in this post that we were going to be making over our house’s elevation with a modern mixed materials look in collaboration with Scyon. We also had a designer on board to help us

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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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  • Our House

    We’re Renovating Our House’s Exterior! Our Before Photos

    July 11, 2017February 14, 2020

    The renovating bug is a sneaky thing, isn’t it? Once you’ve been bitten by it (or the home building bug, which I hear is as equally infectious) it’s never long after you throw down your paintbrush one day and swear, “That’s it! I’m done! I’m not doing any more renovations,” that bug raises its little

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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

    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 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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  • 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

    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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    Woah my Stories blew up today when I started talki Woah my Stories blew up today when I started talking about kids birthday parties and our present drawer! For about a year or so now, I've kept a drawer of gifts in this old dresser (and wrapping paper and gift bags nearby in another). Now that the kids are in kindy and school they get invites to SO many parties - and I swear June and May have been particularly hectic! 🥳🎉😅 At one point, Mr Nerd and I were like, "Maybe we can just ask them to pick the parties they most want to go to?" 🤔 but apparently that is not how kids operate 😅 
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I had my reservations about starting a present drawer again (you can read my odd reason why in Stories 😆) but now having one seriously saves me SO much time - and money, because buying for multiple parties a weekend can sure add up! Do you have a present drawer? I'm really enjoying the conversation - how you guys budget and organise for birthday parties, and also what you think is an appropriate and sensible spend for kids gifts! 💰 I'll put the Stories and responses in my 'Adulting' tab of my Highlights 😉

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Also if Nala looks proud, it's because she thrifted this dresser with me a few years ago, we found it on the side of the road going for a walk. We cheap like that✌🏽😎 🐶
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    I fell in love with a house this week. Went to wri I fell in love with a house this week. Went to write some copy on this little warehouse-style home in North Fremantle for @sarah.bourke_real.estate and didn't want to leave! Look at it! 😍

Many moons ago, before my head grew cluttered with trends and overwhelmed by the noise of Pinterest and Instagram, this is exactly the kind of house I envisioned I would have one day: small and cosy with a loft bedroom, lots of reclaimed timber and recycled materials, exposed brick and soul. I LOVE IT 🖤 It was designed by now-retired architect Tom Roberts, built in 1984 and it has aged so gracefully - to me that material palette is still just as timeless today. It  has dual zoning - the front room could be used either as an office OR bedroom. Bonus points for the cute potter's studio in the garden. (And the Stop the Toad sticker 🐸)

If my hunch is correct it will go under offer in roughly two minutes, so go buy it quick haha. Once you're settled in, I'll come over with a bottle of red. 

🏠 11A Jewell Parade, North Fremantle
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    Who knew a cute adult nightlight was the home item Who knew a cute adult nightlight was the home item I never knew I needed? 😊💡 @beaconlighting sent me a lovely little thank you recently. This is their Odette LED Portable light (in Olive) and I love it - the stylish shape, the colour, the way it dresses up the MCM drawers I found on the kerb, and the practicality. A while ago, in an attempt to decrease how much time I spend mindlessly scrolling (a lot 😅) I started keeping my phone OFF my bedside at night, so I wouldn't scroll before sleep and upon waking up. But of course this means missing out on one of the best things about a smart phone - a torch at the ready 🔦 Now I tap the spot on this little touch lamp and carry it around - perfect for checking on the kids when they're asleep, reading a book without keeping Mr Nerd up, or getting up to write a reminder to yourself for that urgent task that *only* comes into your brain as you're about to fall asleep (I know a lot of mums in particular will relate 😅) Will link in Stories!
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    If the perfect piece of furniture doesn't exist... If the perfect piece of furniture doesn't exist... DIY your own! ✨ I've always wanted to add a drawing/Lego desk to Miss Nerd's room. But typical of lots of 70s houses like ours, her room is little - 2.7m x 2.7m (about 7.3ft) - and those of you with small spaces will understand, every inch counts! 😅 No desk I found would fit or was exactly what I wanted (swipe for the before, a hand-me-down make-do). So I roped in my clever sister @simoneanderson to help the kids and I make one. I know my strengths and weaknesses, and Simone is much handier than me and less likely to chop off a digit 🤘🏽😎
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We used two pieces of wood from @bunnings affixed together, added brackets to the walls, and Miss Nerd helped me paint it with some paint leftover from a @duluxaus collab (Dulux Edvard) 💙 
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The kids loved their little upgrade. It's a tight fit, but it makes the room more practical.
And gives just enough cosy space for them both; for Little Nerd to produce his wholesome stories, and for Miss Nerd to produce many creepy drawings to come 👹🕷️💀😶
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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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