A couple with a passion for interior design have lifted the lid on what it’s really like to transform a whole house, proving renovations are not for the faint-hearted – revealing they were greeted with terracotta tiles throughout the ground floor, urine-rotted floorboards in the bathroom and needed ‘skip after skip’ to sort out their … Read more
How times change! I’ve just discovered an article from the April 1972 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. Under the heading ‘What I Want In A Wife’, Cosmo asked: ‘What do Britain’s most eligible bachelors look for in a wife?’ The previous month, the magazine had been published in the UK for the very first time. Back … Read more
A family-of-four have spent $6,500 renovating a 16ft Franklin caravan in two months, adding a TV, coffee machine, fridge and luxury bedding to the 1970s framework. Ollie, 36, and Kylie Stephens, 34, who live on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, purchased ‘Wilma’ the vintage caravan in January from a farmer for $4,000. They renovated her part-time … Read more