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All the latest on the renovation of Jen's own "nanna house" on Sydney's Upper North Shore.
You may have seen our recent back yard transformation with a new deck which gave us a beautiful and practical outdoor entertaining space. Unfortunately, it wasn't quite perfect due to the loss of shade from dismantling the ageing pergola, so we needed a new solution. And it is a Sunway folding arm, retractable awning. We didn't think our …
Photography: Jacqui Turk Some rooms are more challenging than others. Our master bedroom has been one of them. Big time! Where do I start?! Before we moved in, I hastily picked what I thought was a nice shade of navy from a colour chart as I wanted to get the whole house painted while it was still empty. The first time I saw the colour in real …
It's been more than 18 months since we bought our family home on Sydney's upper north shore and, bathrooms aside, it's largely unrecognisable from the dated home it once was. Lived in by the same lady for three decades, it was not exactly modern, but it was a great size with four bedrooms, and a decent floorplan which didn't need changing (although …
Photography by Jacqui Turk It finally stopped raining long enough in Sydney for us to shoot these photos of the finished deck and I couldn't wait to share it with you. I also can't wait to spend as much time out here as possible over the holidays! When we bought this house, although it needed a lot of work to bring it up to the 21st …
Following on from last week's post on why I chose Trex Transcend composite decking for our backyard, today I'm telling you a bit more about the installation process and largely, how quick and easy it was. I only got to witness the first two days of the build before I was off to hospital to be induced and have baby Charlie, nine days late! But …
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 …
