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Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects.
In depth features on Australia’s most beautiful gardens and landscape design.
Studio visits with Australia’s most talented creatives, from artists to architects, ceramicists to stylists, furniture makers to lighting designers.
After sharing some shots of the new Pop & Scott workshop in Northcote yesterday, we thought it would be nice today to follow up with a tour of Poppy and Scott’s super sweet Collingwood cottage!
Poppy and Scott moved into this tiny Victorian house two years ago. With just one bedroom, an open kitchen / dining / living space, one bathroom and a pocket-sized courtyard, I think this might actually be the smallest house we have ever featured on TDF! However with it’s high ceilings, natural light and beautiful pale timber floors, the home feels so bright, generous and comfortable. Poppy and Scott have a wide network of clever creative friends, and this home has been known to host more than a few dinner parties and social gatherings! On a summery day, much of the entertaining happens outdoors in the leafy courtyard.
As I’m sure you’ve gathered since yesterday’s post, Poppy and Scott are a multi-talented team, so it’s no surprise their eclectic little pad is picture perfect! As a florist, Poppy loves to be surrounded by plants, flowers and vibrant colour, whilst Scott is a plumber by trade, and is equipped with many manly skills such as welding, carpentry and furniture making. (Who doesn’t LOVE a handy, creative man?!)
Between the two of them, Pop and Scott are always whipping up some amazing new piece of furniture or clever crafty project – in fact the dining setting you see here was their first collaboration. ‘The central void in the tabletop was originally designed for a herb garden’ explains Poppy. ‘We both love to cook and entertain, and somehow the plants came out at every party, inspiring an unusual party trick – our friends love seeing if they can fit their heads through it… we have many incriminating photos!’.
Poppy and Scott rent their home – another brilliant example of how clever styling and creative flair really can make even the most modest rental a truly gorgeous and highly personalised home.
BIG THANKS to Poppy and Scott for sharing the home and workshop with us this week!
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Amazing!
wow I LOVE that kitchen!
love this space…
Love the look of this home and super excited to see a twin to our treasured Xenia the nutcracker on the kitchen mantlepiece :)
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The blue on the fireplace in the kitchen, and the red pendant lamp: love those colours.
Truly delightful & such great photos too.
Love! My favourite home tour on TDF so far! Thanks for sharing .
Love this house!
love this! i rent too, but feel so constrained by my blue venetian blinds… :(
Just gorgeous, thank you. And I’ve bookmarked Angelucci 20thC: what a find.
I love Poppy and Scott’s eclectic sense of style. Such cute tidbits all put together so beautifully.
gorgeous!
Such wonderful colours – love the turquoise print on the couch! Not to mention some fabulous paintings (the one in the kitchen!) and quirky collection of artefacts on the wall
awww nice shots, great pad, lovely plants… especially that FIDDLE LEAF FIG!!! I am looking everywhere for one of these!!
Hona the cat is what makes it ‘pop’.
What a little treasure, this place is inspiring. Thank you for sharing. I love the way you’ve embraced all the natural character and charm of the house whilst adding your own amazing touches of zing / bling to it!
i love this web so much!!!and thank you for sharing!there are so much wonderful color!nice!~
Poppy has got style! In bucket loads.Love her cute little house.
There is so much warmth in this house. Comes across as a happy home. Loved the plants all over and that blue criss cross patterned bed cover.
Lovely home. Particularly love the indoor greenery. Can anyone identify the indoor plants in the fifth image? Trying to fill my home with more plants – so far I only have a maidenhair fern.
Absolutely adore this lounge room. Love the miss match patterns and colours!
I love everything about this home. So romantic.
Lucy I LOVE this home! Each single image is gorgeous and such an inspiration ~ these are going straight onto my pinboards!
love this house! also curious to know- is that angelucci couch comfortable to sit on?! I’ve been eyeing it for a while and would love some input, thanks lucy for another great post!
Lovely, and to be expected… light, airy and so in keeping with Pop and Scott and their personalities. Now I’m just waiting for my invitation to see it in person….
Hermosa combinación de colores, y las plantas dan una frescura increible! Me encantó.
I am obtaining definitely pressured out about the actuality that my weight loss http://www.and-weight-loss.com has stopped and i cant understand why!
Love the handmade textiles from Mexico to decorate your home, you have a magic touch for decoration. It seems we share the love and memories for Mexican handcrafts… Mauricio, http://www.chiapasbazaar.com
You can find those handwoven pillow covers from Mexico here, if you like…. http://www.chiapasbazaar.com/collections/pillow-covers
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I love everything about this home. So romantic.
Really lovely photos and so beautiful too.