This week we’re revisiting a number of the hottest DIY tales from our archives. Learn on for end-of-summer undertaking inspiration:

Remodelista regulars little question have admired the work of George & Willy. They’re the charming, younger New Zealander duo who made their design debut with the Studio Curler, a dangling roll of kraft paper for maintaining To Do lists and making sketches. Since then, George Wilkins and Will McCallum have gone on to supply a suspended garments drying rack, a fireplace starter impressed by Alaskan whalers, and a set of indicators together with a Scrabble-like letter board.

Their creations are all about trendy utility paired with a pleasant Down Beneath playfulness. They sum up their M.O. as “making your area thrilling”—which led us to be inquisitive about their very own quarters. For the final 18 months, we’ve been informed they’d quickly be able to unveil the primary George & Willy transform: the 2 have been working with pals on a home for George and his spouse, Hannah. Inbuilt 1991, the construction—”tiny, nondescript, and uninspired,” says George—was priced proper and had potential: to them it was begging to be remodeled into an city cabin. That required these first-timers to panel nearly each floor in and out. Come see.

Images courtesy of George & Willy.

They are saying the general format of the home “was really not unhealthy and didn’t require an excessive amount of altering,” however the plasterboard exterior and landscaping known as for a complete overhaul. Along with cladding the construction in macrocarpa, an evergreen that’s a less-pricey various to cedar, they constructed a picket fence (to maintain in George and Hannah’s canine, Frida) and a picket walkway that, George says, “offers the sensation of being on a bushwalk each time you enter the home.”