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House Nerd Sharing our renovations on our 70s fixer-upper and home tours of all sizes & budgets
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Written by freelance journalist and Perth girl Maya Anderson, House Nerd is a blog that offers sneak peeks into inspiring Australian houses of all kinds. There's renovated worker's cottages to contemporary beach homes, warehouse conversions to tiny new builds made from recycled materials, contemporary apartments to sprawling old riverside mansions. We share all different kinds of houses, but they

all have one thing in common - they're warm and inviting real homes. Maya visits people’s houses and tells their renovating, building and decorating stories (and disaster stories!). Her favourite stories tend to be the ‘before and after’ ones - nothing more inspiring than seeing grotty before photos! She also shares her own renovating progress on her own house, a 1970s "Crap Shack" in Perth suburbia, where she lives with her family - husband Mr Nerd, Border collie x Labrador Nala and baby, Little Nerd. You can check it out at www.house-nerd.com to take the key, enjoy a home tour or several and come away inspired! You can still enjoy all the old content - at http://www.house-nerd.com/blog/

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I asked ChatGPT to make my house look like a Beatrix Potter story book illustration.... 💛 🏡🐰🥕 ☕I couldn't resist jumping...
27/04/2025

I asked ChatGPT to make my house look like a Beatrix Potter story book illustration.... 💛 🏡🐰🥕 ☕

I couldn't resist jumping on this super-cute AI Peter Rabbit trend when I saw it. These pictures make me so happy! They bring back so much childhood nostalgia 😊 We have all enjoyed looking at them, yep even my hubby 😆

I love all the pictures but the one with Luka on our new sofa is probably my favourite 🐶 (it's the Dawson from btw and it's amazing, so comfy!) I cracked up at some of the weird random details the AI generator came up with, like the little Beatrix Potter versions of the bottles in our kitchen ( ). You have to try this trend. I promise it will make you smile! 🏡💛

We got chickens! Only took me a couple of years to grind Mr Nerd down 💪🏽😜 "We only need two or three," I wheedled, but s...
09/02/2025

We got chickens! Only took me a couple of years to grind Mr Nerd down 💪🏽😜 "We only need two or three," I wheedled, but somehow we have wound up with nine 😅 You can see how excited Mr Nerd looks about that 😁

Introducing our backyard beauties and yard destroyers: Sylvia, Ella, Mrs Morgan, Taco, Hen Solo, Bettina, Buttercup, Daphne and Dora. Sadly it looks like our very cuddly, unfortunately Wyandotte Bettina is looking like she might be a rooster 😭 so we will have to find a new home for Bert.

Initially we got chicks and two pullets from . Then I saw our English bruisers (the big white Sussex hens) on Gumtree looking for a new home, and I was like, "What's two more?" Ok, so it turns out two more is a lot more when they are the sheer size of Daphne and Dora 😬😅 But they are all so sweet and so funny. I am obsessed.

Some of you will remember our very old previous chook Chicken Nugget - Miss Nerd was gutted when she died and she is SO happy to have so many chickens now. Even though all the big hens were scared of us initially, within a week Miss Nerd had worn them all down and given them all Stockholm Syndrome. She is a chicken whisperer 🐔 We can't figure it out because she is basically the loudest, most frenetic person in the world but for some reason animals love her.

Anyway, if you need me, I basically just live in my backyard now, drinking coffee and watching my chickens 🤓

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