Our bush house

This is the first home I blogged about. If you’re looking for our most recent home, check out our river house tour.

Welcome to our little house on the hill! Come on in and make yourself at home. I’m so glad you could stop by! Let’s wander through room by room.

Open-plan living

This is what the living room looked like before we bought the house.

After knocking out two walls to open up the space, here’s where we ended up!

You can find more before and after shots and a complete post about how we tackled this living area transformation here.

Kitchen

This is what the kitchen looked like before we got our hands on it… perfectly functional, but kind of bland and dated.

After knocking out an internal wall and completely re-doing the kitchen, here is where we ended up!

Read the complete, picture-packed post about our kitchen and living area transformation here.

Bathroom

Our bathroom “Before” was pretty uninspiring. Unless you happen to like smoked glass and peach-coloured baths.

We gave the lace ruffles the boot and reinvented the bathroom as a modern space with a smart, masculine feel and a touch of glam in the gilt mirror and marble splashback.

If you want to read more about this bathroom makeover, find all the juicy details here.

Master bedroom

This is the master bedroom in its original state, before it became ours.

And here is the transformed room:

You can find the complete post about our master bedroom makeover here.

Baby girl nursery

You can see more pictures of the nursery here, and find my step-by-step tutorial for how I painted the polka-dot feature wall here.

Boys’ bedroom
I never did a complete post about this room, as it remained unfinished when we moved. But you can find a post about how I created these star-stencilled storage boxes here.

Downstairs

When we purchased our house, it had 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom. We converted it into a 4-bed, 2-bath house by building in part of the rumpus room. This was the before of the downstairs area: