Selling Houses Australia – The 70’s Spanish style hacienda

The LifeStyle Channel’s Selling Houses Australia Episode 9 Season 8

The Story: Ross and Margot’s house is the odd one out; A 70’s Spanish style hacienda, nestled into quiet beachside suburbia. The exterior is more Costa del Sol than Aussie coast, but what lies beyond the doors is enough to send buyers running. Truckie Ross would love to retire, but with no buyer on the horizon, he’s stuck behind the wheel.

The Problem:  The interior of the home was full of mismatched furniture and mismatched designs. While Ross and Margot may have been happy to live in the odd architecture and feature designs, potential buyers were not.

The exterior of the home did not have any street appeal, where the pale blue paint looked cold and uninviting. The home did have a pool, a major positive, but the fencing around the pool was in bad shape and in the wrong position, where two small spaces were created from the fence, limiting the backyard entertaining area.

The rooms in the house all had dark coloured feature walls, which made the house look even smaller than what it was, and the colours were all mismatched – no consistency whatsoever.

The Solution: It was time to get rid of all the visual clutter, both inside and outside of the home.
The exterior of the home was given a new coat of paint. A warmer colour was used, but also keeping the Mediterranean feel of the house. The pool fence was also repositioned to create a bigger space in the backyard.

All the eclectic features inside the home were also dealt with. Instead of removing the hideous tiles in the bathroom, which is a major cost, the tiles were instead sprayed over. The new wall along with the new tap-wear helped to bring the bathroom back up to date.

The dark feature walls were replaced with a single colour coat of paint, which helped open up the smaller spaces, but at the same time created a better sense of continuity for the interior of the house. New carpet around the house helped to add a touch of luxury.

A mixture of Roller Blinds and Dual Roller Blinds (in the fabric Mauritius and colour Drizzle) were installed, and framed the windows perfectly, and added great functionality. The neutral tones of the blinds made it a very versatile look for the home, but was also the perfect for the décor and new colour scheme, and added that special modern touch.

Luxaflex® Dual Roller Blinds will allow the new owners of the home to combine the functionality of two different fabrics in the one roller blind system offering flexibility to adjust both light levels and night time privacy in the one application.

All the special touches made this house more modern, and now potential buyers could what a great house it actually was without being distracted by all the eclectic design features.

All Luxaflex® Window Coverings were supplied and installed by Luxaflex® Gallery dealer Mal Glanville & Co, NSW.

Watch Selling Houses Australia every Wednesday, 8.30pm AEDT on The LifeStyle Channel, only on Foxtel. 

Selling Houses Australia – Run down family home

The LifeStyle Channel’s Selling Houses Australia Episode 3 aired last night, and from what we saw, a little inspiration is all that’s needed to refresh your home!

The Story: The Ellis’s old Queenslander home was once full of love and laughter, but now it’s just a sad reminder of the past. Originally it was home to Susan, Erroll and their 4 kids. But Susan and Erroll split, the kids grew up and moved out and the only ones left were Erroll and son Peter.  Tragically, Erroll died 2 years ago. The house holds too many bad memories, so the whole family agrees it’s time to sell and for Peter to leave his ghosts behind.

PROBLEM: The house was stuck in a time warp. It was more like walking onto a set from the Sullivans than a stylish Queenslander home. Could this run down family home be transformed into a modern and comfortable family home?

SOLUTION: The windows on the front of the house weren’t very big and didn’t add a lot to the character to the interior. Luxaflex Newstyle Polyresin Shutters in White were installed as the horizontal lines add width to the windows and perfectly suit the Queenslander look.  In the bedrooms Luxaflex Dual Roller Blinds in Ultraweave (a Sunscreen fabric) in colour Midnight and Sunseeker (a Translucent fabric) in the colour Ice, were used to offer flexibility in the rooms to adjust both light levels and night-time privacy in the one application.

All Luxaflex Window Coverings were supplied and installed by Luxaflex Window Fashions Gallery, CBD Blinds in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Queensland.

Selling Houses Australia airs every Wednesday, 8:30pm on The LifeStyle Channel, only on Foxtel.