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How to Design an Elegant & Cosy Winter Retreat
Every year winter comes around again (as it does), I’ll pile some firewood into my 1930s open fireplace for Anzac Day, and I’ll start to sprinkle in just a few design elements into my living spaces to embrace the cosiness of the season. Truthfully, embracing winter in...
How to Create a Beautiful & Functional Room Layout
This week, I am taking you through the steps to create a beautiful and functional room layout on your own. Why is this step so important when decorating your home? Well, imagine going out to the shops and buying that sofa you’ve been dreaming about. It’s delivered to...
How to Design Your Forever Home (from a Safe Distance)
I have to ask… are you getting as tired as I am hearing about all the virus stuff going on?? I know it’s a pandemic, but isn’t a little normalcy good for our bodies and minds? I sure think so. Which is why I am fully on board for keeping calm and carrying on…...
How to Create Your Forever Home’s Design Concept
The next stop on our Plan Your Design Year Series couldn’t be more timely… design concept dreaming. This is the FUN part. As we’re all spending quite a bit more time at home these days, we could use a little joy and creativity, don’t you think? (Retirement test run,...
How to Get Your Husband Involved in Your Interior Design Project
You know me — I like to rattle things up a bit, especially when I know that I’m addressing real issues that many of us face. Yes, I do mean many of us. I have seen, heard, and personally experienced the battle that can occur between husbands and wives during an...
Signature Decorating Stage 1: Furniture Layout & Style Goals
Imagine going out to the shops and buying that sofa you’ve been dreaming about. It’s delivered to your home, assembled in your space, and you realise… “It’s WAY too big.” When it comes to big ticket investments, you want to be sure to get them right. Furniture that...
How to Begin Your Home Decorating Project
How should you begin your home decorating project? Where do you start? Whom should you enlist for support or assistance? These are some of the most common questions that come up when deciding to decorate a home. Though I’m tempted to dive into our 4-Stage Signature...
How to Define a Strategy for Your Interior Design Project
Can you believe it’s March already? Summer has zipped by way too fast! Since it’s the first week of the month, we’re moving ahead to the next stop on our Plan Your Design Year Series. If you missed our other PYDY posts, there is still time to join us! January: Look...
Before & After: Classic Master Bedroom in Deakin
I met with a former client the other day, and over lunch and good conversation, the memories of her classic master bedroom project came flooding back! Since we just launched the Journey Home blog, I thought, Why not take you behind the scenes of her project? This...
5 Interesting Design Questions I’ve Been Asked Inside Clients’ Homes
Can you guess which design questions clients ask me inside their homes? Today I’m sharing the top 5! Some are extremely common. Some made me smile when I heard them. And some of these might even be questions you’ve had when considering professional design. Let’s hear...
How to Declutter Your Home with Conviction
If you want to declutter your home but are feeling intimidated I have relieving news for you: it doesn’t have to be difficult. With the right approach and sense of purpose, your experience could even be… dare I say it?… enjoyable. Decluttering can be filled with...
How to Avoid the Top 3 Most Expensive Decorating Mistakes in Canberra
Today I’m sharing the top 3 most expensive decorating mistakes I have seen made around Canberra — and not just by Canberrans! I know I’m going to ruffle some feathers here, but I do this from a place of genuinely wanting to help you create a beautiful home. No one...
What to Expect from Journey Home’s Custom Decorating Service
Have you ever asked yourself any of these questions? How do I get to my forever home? Where do I even start? How can I express my classic taste and create a personal space? How can I design a downsized space for my easiest, most beautiful living? What are my smartest...
How to Accurately Calculate Your Home Contents Insurance
As bushfires continue in Australia this week, you've probably considered your level of home contents insurance at least once. It has certainly crossed my mind, especially after we were burgled before Christmas. Yep, the bugger came right into the bedroom in the...
How to Plan Your Design Year & Get the Home You Really Want
Welcome to Plan Your Design Year! We’ve broken our Signature Decorating method into monthly stages to help you transform your space into your forever home. Make 2020 the year you live beautifully at last!
9 Tips for Decorating Your Home BEFORE Retirement (So You Can Enjoy It!)
Imagine a home that brings you ease, sophistication, and beautiful living from the moment your retirement begins. Or, maybe you enjoy working on your home and would love for your retirement’s initial years to include decorating it yourself. You get to choose! But...
How to Manage a Decorating Project Like a CEO
Would you love to manage a decorating project like a CEO? Do you crave the rewarding, high-level challenge of creating a vision, assembling a solid team and playing conductor? That rush you get from bringing short- and long-term goals to life? To be honest, these...
How to Create an Interior Decorating Budget
When it comes to furnishings and decorating your home, how can you create an interior decorating budget? Well, there is no one-size-fits-all answer. If you look around at our Signature 4-Stage Decorating services, you might even say, “Nadine, what does ‘from $1,500’...
7 Behind-the-Scenes Things Your Home Decorator Does for You
Today, our clients returned to their beautiful forever home, styled to picture perfection... but just a few hours earlier? Not quite the magazine-worthy interior it would become! As with every home decorating project, there were some bumps during our installation, and...
Interior Decorator vs. Designer: Who is Right for You?
Here’s a question I get asked ALL the time: What’s the difference between an interior designer and an interior decorator? There are some key differences I’m sharing with you today, but I want to preface this post by saying that one isn’t better than the other — it...
Is your builder screaming for decisions!
If your builder is screaming for decisions and you are tearing your hair out! Nadine shows you in this short video how we can guide you to create your own design scheme in a day and get your construction project on track. We all want a happy builder!To visit our new...
Our Ainslie Heritage project wins two HIA awards
Congratulations to Mic and the team from Vision Building Group for winning two categories in the 2018 ACT HIA for our Ainslie Heritage cottage project. Heritage ProjectRenovation Project $350,000 – $500,000Mic’s team brilliantly executed my...
2018 on reflection
I can’t believe it was this time last year I was in Spain visiting family, the year has flown by. As a designer I felt the year went extremely well, the builder for our Ainslie heritage renovation project won 2 HIA awards. The Deakin revival project...
Merry Christmas from Nadine
These are photos of our former Brisbane heritage pied-à-terre. I worked with the green carpet and my husband wanted Red. Needless to say, it was magical at Christmas time. I am taking a little extra time this holiday to spend it working on new exciting...
HIA Finalist – Heritage renovation in Ainslie
Cross your fingers! Our Jewelry Box Cottage project in Ainslie ACT has made to the judging stage for a HIA award – Heritage Renovation from $350,000 - $500,000 category. We designed a lot of traditional details into this complete home renovation especially into the...
Behind the scenes reveal – Bachelor pad project in Kingston
Our gentleman client engaged us to assist with renovating and refurnishing an older Kingston apartment for a comfortable retirement. After completing an initial briefing meeting, I discovered our client’s style was New York Loft / Hamptons with a masculine edge....
Awarded House and Garden Magazine’s TOP 50 Rooms 2018
We are pleased to announce today that Australian House and Garden Magazine selected our Deakin Revival project for the TOP 50 Rooms for 2018 award. Journey Home was the only Canberra Interior Designer selected. Nadine attended the awards luncheon in Vaucluse House,...
