Interior design and styling, homewares, furniture, home appliances and the personalities behind them
All the latest on the renovation of Jen's own "nanna house" on Sydney's Upper North Shore.
Photography by Sam McAdam-Cooper There's a new room in our house which is calm, serene and incredibly tidy... because nobody uses it yet! I like to leave the door open and gaze smugly at its peaceful perfection, even if the rest of the house is increasingly becoming a bomb site as third trimester tiredness kicks in! It's our future baby boy's …
Sponsored by Intrim Mouldings As someone currently renovating a very dated sixties house which was lacking in any architectural features or pretty character, I've been learning a few lessons about how to add these things and what makes the biggest difference. I wanted to share my top tips and products for adding some extra va-va-voom to your …
It's been a few months since we finished our kitchen and I'm still completely in love! We have added a few things, like navy linen blinds, and my next project will be to add a bit more colour and a few more styling elements (that's for another post!) because it still looks a little too much like a show kitchen (like that's a bad …
As regular readers will know, we have been slowly but surely (some would say pretty quickly actually!) updating our family home from the "nanna house" we bought, for a year now. The bedrooms got off to a good start really quickly with carpet, paint, plantation shutters and new lighting. But the wardrobes were seriously letting them down. Until …
Can you believe it's been a year since we moved into our family home and started changing it from 'nanna house' to timeless longterm home? I'm going to do one big roundup of everything we've done so far (a lot!) and what we're planning next very soon, but for today, I have a video tour of our living room for …
Sponsored by ILVE Much as I'd love to tell you renovations and interior design are all about aesthetics (and let's face it, that's the fun part!), there is a hell of a lot of practicality and functionality involved too. And the designs which combine the best of both worlds are always the most successful. Nowhere is practicality more important …
Sponsored by Quick-Step There has been a lot of interest in our new floors and as choosing which option to go with can sometimes be a bit overwhelming, I thought I'd share what we learned from the experience and how we came up with our final choice. I hope it helps others facing the same dilemma! I always knew I wanted an engineered floor …
Let's face it, one of the best things about upgrading from apartment to house, like we did this year, is having a back yard. Not only has it been amazing for Seb, who even stopped wanting to go to the park for a while because he loved hanging out there so much, but as an extra outdoor room for us grown ups. Being a Pom, I really appreciate the …
In partnership with Latitude Financial Services As regular readers will know, we have been doing up our "nanna house" (so named after the lady who lived here for 30 years before us and whose decor was decidedly, well, nanna!) since April. While this house was well loved and looked after, it was added to over the years, many times, and this left …
Photography by Jacqui Turk I am so excited to finally share my new kitchen with you today! Seeing these beautiful pictures makes the last two months of mess and chaos seem more than worth while! They say the kitchen is the heart of the home and in this house, it really is. Not just because everyone hangs out in this room, but because it …
