George and Willy’s City Cabin Home Transform—within the New Zealand Suburbs

This week we’re revisiting among the hottest DIY tales from our archives. Learn on for end-of-summer venture 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 protecting 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 fashionable utility paired with a pleasant Down Below playfulness. They sum up their M.O. as “making your house thrilling”—which led us to be interested by their very own quarters. For the final 18 months, we’ve been instructed they’d quickly be able to unveil the primary George & Willy rework: the 2 have been working with mates on a home for George and his spouse, Hannah. In-built 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 inside and outside. Come see.

Pictures courtesy of George & Willy.

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