Category Archives: Decor & Interiors

I had a burst of creativity over the festive period and felt an insatiable urge to drill holes in our wall and to finally mount these butterfly mounts I’ve been collecting.

Kathy isn’t the biggest fan of the scorpion and vetoed the tarantulas but overall she’s warmed to the whole natural science vignette.

I’ve been longing for a pair of deer antlers. Kathy isn’t crazy on hanging animals in the house but she let this one slide. In a way I’m thankful because if she wasn’t I’d probably have filled our home with taxidermed birds by now.

I got my geek on and bought an old 70’s Sansui tuner amp and a pair of B&O Beosound 1200 speakers off of Gumtree for a song. The amp’s lights had blown out over the years and the tape switch was faulty causing the amp to cut in and out. I took it all apart, cleaned it and replaced the old festoon lamps with LED’s, all very McGuyver of me.

It’s great to be able to play music again, particularly LP’s. We’ve been without a radio for close on 2yrs as we decided to wait till Nathan was old enough to understand it wasn’t for destroying.

I’m still teaching him not to fiddle with it, but it’s worth the effort.

So as I shared in this post, last week I had the pleasure of hosting stylist Helena Sheridan and Photographer Mareli Esterhuizen as part of their ‘In Your Space’ project.

These are a just a few of the amazing shots they took of my home.

Helena paid me a wonderful comment in her own post sharing:

My job as stylist was almost redundant as everything in his house seems to be perfectly curated and styled already. In a house where every item has a story and Matt can give interesting background on every piece we had lots of fun exploring the details and even getting in those much loved wide shots!

I don’t think it’s fair for me to take the credit, Helena moved things about into new and wonderful places and let’s not forget the wonderful Neil Stemmet, Lucas Adams, Lauren Fowler the The Wild Creative, all of whom had a part in curating the cado shelves.

I can’t thank both Mareli and Helena enough, it was great to open my home to them and to have them reciprocate through a mutual love of design & decor.

For more beautiful pics visit their gallery here: ‘In Your Space’