Real renovations
Please, come on in and snoop around this section for tips and tricks on renovating your home!
And if you are after a little one-on-one about renovating your home, you can gimme a holler and I’ll be chatting to you about your renovating dreams and fears in no time. All the deets on my renovation and home improvement coaching can be found here.
Real Reno: Empress House
Creating the dream home to stay in the tightly held suburb of Kingsville was the goal for Mardi and Matt and their two little men. “We wanted a practical but [...]
Real Reno: The curvy Yarraville stunner
It’s taken me 38 years but I’ve finally embraced my curves, people. Just a little fun fact about me. No biggy. So imagine my heart eyes when I caught sight [...]
Real Reno: The Domain-front cover worthy home
This people, is a real renovation story that I’ve burned the midnight oil to bring to you because I’m that bloody excited about it. This house is almost too good [...]
Real reno: The product of a Newport renovation power couple
You know a house is going to be the bidnez when colour expert, Rachel from Hello Colour gives you a heads up that she’s involved in a major renovation project [...]
Home tour: 40 Davies Street, Newport
Want to see inside 40 Davies Street, check it out here: Trish and Eddy live in Williamstown and they love it. They also love a good renovation project – in [...]
Home tour: 25 Devonshire Street, West Footscray
Well this would have to one of the most outstanding transformations of a West Footscray home in RECORD time! Jacki and builder Anthony weren’t new to this renovation game. They [...]
Home tour: Inside Number 25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2Z2UoBnLPk&t=34s Casey, her hubby and 3 kids live inside Number 25. Not only is this a beautiful family home, it's also a light and bright Yarraville house that's available for [...]
Home tour: 16 Frederick Street, Yarraville
The concept of a “perfect match” is very topical at the moment with Married At First Sight being all over our screens 4 nights a week. And while the “experts” [...]
Real reno: Building the Haus of Cruze
Fresh off the back of watching YOU on Netflix I have something to admit. There were elements of Joe's stalking behaviours that really resonated with me. The live example is [...]
Real reno: The Edwardian renovator’s design
It will come as no surprise that I watch the local real estate market like a hawk. And I don’t mind an open for inspection either. So when a beautifully [...]
Real reno: The 12 week dream reno
This real reno story is a pretty special one. It’s a home I personally fell in love with as soon as I walked through the door. Not surprisingly the ensuite [...]
Real reno: An iconic Yarraville home
If you happen to be a Yarraville local, you might not recognise this house from the front, but I'm almost certain that you'll know the house from this angle: It’s [...]
My garden makeover
How would we describe the original garden when we bought the house...? I don’t think ‘useless’ and ‘ugly’ would be too strong. Throw ‘impractical’ in there as well, actually. These [...]
Real reno: Renovating for a smaller, but smarter home
Leila’s renovation story is one that is as old as time. A weatherboard Californian Bungalow that had a 70’s remodel and extension which was poorly constructed and designed. Sound familiar?! [...]
Real reno: The seven year reno
Imagine renovating for seven years on the same home?! Renee and Gary have done just that but wouldn’t have it any other way. The plan was always to use their [...]
Real reno: Living on site with two pre-school aged children
In December 2014, Lauren (at 38 weeks pregnant!) and her hubby made the decision to make a sea change and move from Melbourne to Mt Eliza. The plan was to raise her [...]
Our kitchen makeover
It took us 7 years to finally say 'enough is enough' with our kitchen. Relative to other kitchens it’s actually a fairly decent size. We could pretty much fit everything [...]