Mar 3, 2018 | Our Mid-century modern home, Renovate & Decorate, That Creative blog
Why do we shy away from bright colors in our homes? Not me! I love striking colors, rich textures, bold patterns and something to look at everywhere I turn with art and sculpture. A mouthful of a sentence and an eyeful fro those that prefer the less mundane and home...
Mar 3, 2018 | Our Mid-century modern home, Renovate & Decorate, That Creative blog
After renovating for 7 years, we have restored, expanded, polished, refurbished and modernised our little MCM. I trust we were able to keep some of its authentic charm while expanding this home to be more livable in today times. The original home was built in 1959 and...
Mar 3, 2018 | Our Mid-century modern home, Renovate & Decorate, That Creative blog
We have had the lucky opportunity to stumble across a lovely tiny mid-century home in 2009 and commenced our journey of discovering its history, renovating and turning this into a wonderful place for ourselves. Below is the history of the home and some of our...
May 30, 2015 | Our Mid-century modern home, Renovate & Decorate, That Creative blog
I must admit I am a little obsessed with mid-century modernist design, largely because I have an iconic home myself. I’m not so fanatical to collect all items mid-century but I do enjoy the design ethos of the era and no doubt many of you can recollect even...
Apr 3, 2015 | Our Mid-century modern home, That Creative blog
One of the best creative adventures I have spent money on was my Punch 3D Home program. Just $79 at our local computer store at the time, I have used it endlessly to remodel our home. I first used the program to create our new bathroom which I covered in a previous...
Mar 1, 2014 | Browse and chat, Our Mid-century modern home, That Creative blog
I love collecting arty bits and pieces .. well within my limited budget that is. I also enjoy renovating and landscaping our mid-century home with Ray. Over the past few weeks we have added a few bits to everything … renovations, art collection and landscaping...
Jul 20, 2013 | Browse and chat, Our Mid-century modern home, Renovate & Decorate, That Creative blog
This morning I had the 1am waking moment and didn’t fall back to sleep, so why not browse for 30 minutes until my eyes droop again. Having been in Sydney for work during the week it was a quiet moment to look through some of the blogs I subscribe to including...
May 13, 2013 | Our Mid-century modern home, That Creative blog
Yesterday was Sunday and instead of being home doing the homey activities .. it was Mother’s Day .. yayyyy. The day started off with an amazing sunrise, we are metro but the 6am sun, clouds and sky took my breathe away. It lasted for about 15 minutes, enough to...
May 4, 2013 | Browse and chat, Our Mid-century modern home, That Creative blog
Last Saturday morning being ANZAC weekend and both the boys were in town, so I tee’d up a small working bee at my place. This mum needed a hand with a few rocks. Well it was like having Heckle and Jeckle come to town! Everything started in familiar manner, Chay...
Apr 25, 2013 | Our Mid-century modern home, That Creative blog
I have to say Autumn is my favourite season everywhere, always. The colours the different breeze, the fresh nights, the sunny days. Most of all I love the transformation in the garden. Since moving to Melbourne, my greatest delight is watching the...
Feb 23, 2013 | Our Mid-century modern home, That Creative blog
In my last post we looked at how to design your garden lights. In my yard I had come up with the following design and was now armed with a shopping list to take to the light store. I required: 5 garden lights, one pillar light for the driveway, 2 house lights...
Feb 15, 2013 | Our Mid-century modern home, That Creative blog
Being an amateur gardener I had to draw on my creative skills to design not only the landscape, but also the garden and the garden lights. Nil experience, nil knowledge, so armed with google I was ready to give it a go. I knew I didn’t want to repeat the...