The renovation may be finished, but the work of creating a beautiful home never really ends.
In Part 2 of this episode of The Edit, Matty J is back with Home Beautiful Editor Elle Lovelock to talk about what life looks like now that Chante Mer is open to guests - the letting go, the worrying, and the welcome basket decisions he probably overthought.
He also gets into parenting, sharing the mental load, raising three daughters, and the lessons he hopes the next generation will inherit. And he shares the item discovered during the renovation that deepened his connection to the home's original owner, Val.
Plus the one thing that keeps him up at night as a holiday-home owner. Hint: It involves lemon juice and marble.
This episode covers:
- Running Chante Mer as a holiday stay
- Opening a family home to guests
- The realities of short-term rentals
- Holiday home hosting tips
- Sharing the mental load at home
- Modern fatherhood and parenting
- Raising daughters
- Family life with Laura Byrne
- The mystery photo album discovered during renovation
- The legacy of Chante Mer
- What makes a home beautiful
Photo Credits: @chante.mer.house and Home Beautiful.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is an our media podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
With the Marble bench tops in the kitchen. Lemon juice
really is the nightmare for marble. And we've had one
guest over Christmas that was staying with us. They put
the lemon juice by the worm wedge and it just
corrodes the marble. It's like, it's not fair no what
loreuice does to marble. If you are listening right now
(00:30):
and you are a man, just go into the laundry
right now. If there's nothing the laundry basket, just strip
a bed, do a load, and trust me, it's going
to be appreciated.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
We're back with part two of my chat with Maddy j.
If you're rejoining us after listening to part one, welcome back.
But if you haven't already listened to part one, scroll
back up in your feed, listen to part one and
then join me back here again later. So what exactly
does Matt leave for his guests in their welcome basket?
(01:07):
And what's the one part about renting out Shan Tmyer
that keeps him up at night? We are about to
find out. So what kind of guests do you have?
What do you hope to have?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I don't know, I'm always really inquisitive about who's booking
stays because we built our own website and so the
bookings we don't get to like vet them in any way,
like we just you know, once they book it, that's it.
We ask how many people are staying, and that's it.
I hope it's you know, it could be anyone, you know, young,
(01:38):
young families, girl weekends. My mum's got a weekend coming
up next week where she's got five of her girlfriends
and they're on their seventies and they're having a stay there.
So anyone who's just going to enjoy the house is
what I hope for.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I was talking to a builder up in Byron recently
and he has a house that he and his wife
a B and B. And he said, we can get
like twelve guys at a Bucks party stay, or you
can have a family same size, loads of kids stay.
Who do you think is the tidier the house is
(02:17):
in worse condition after who?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Do you know? What my fear would be the Bucks weekend.
I really hope everyone stays at the house for a
Bucks weekend. I'm hoping that it's families, And I know
it's like when you agonize over every detail of a renovation.
I think the hardest thing is then allowing the house
to be lived in and with our own kids. That
was really difficult because you know, like when we did
(02:40):
the final handover with our builder, any little imperfection on
the paint, you know, we would say can that be
fixed up? Yep? And then Tom was amazing. He made
everything perfect. And then the second the kids are in there,
they're drawing on the walls, they got their Matchbok cars
all on the skirting. They really just destroy the place instantly,
(03:02):
And it's so weird to go from one second you
have a magnifying glass over every nook and cranny and
then the next the kids are just running a mark
and you're also, as much as you're trying to tell
them to behave you kind of.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Know that they need to have a good time to
exactly exactly exactly how often do you get to stay there? Now?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
So lately it's been pretty busy and we've only been
renting it out for about two months now and so
straight away got really booked out most weekends. But Laura
and I are having our first weekend this coming without
the kids.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So, wow, have you done that before.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
No, so we would like do we bring Poppy. We've
got an amazing babysitter and also my mum lives with
us here in Sydney. So I think we're going to
leave all three kids in very capable hands and we're
going to have a weekend. They're just the two of us,
which we're really excited about.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Do you think you'll be able to relax or we'd
be looking around thinking, right, we need to touch that up.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
We need to Yeah, like every time we've been down there,
and it's kind of like once a month we try
and get down there, and then every time we see something,
we're like, oh we should put another plant here. We'll
go down to the nursery, we'll plant that. Or I'm like,
oh we should we should fix up this corner over here,
or I might gourn you like the driveway because it's
getting a little bit dirty. Yeah, it's really hard to
(04:24):
like switch off and I bet just enjoy it. So guests,
that's it. So I think we're going to try and
just enjoy it. That's the plan. Good luck, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
What is life after the renovation? Is there anything you
wish you'd done differently? And is it finished.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
There's definitely more that we'd love to do to the hounds.
I mean someone even said, you know, it'll be nice
put a pool at the back, and I was like,
that's a great suggestion. We just don't have a scent.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Spare exactly to do that few more bookings.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, So so I think we'll always be tinkering with
it because it is such an old house that it's
never going to be quite perfect. There's always something that
needs a little touch.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Up, and that's probably a good thing.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, yeah, I think so. I'm so glad we did
like bring it back to a former glory, but now
it's a lot more relaxed. Was when we were like
in the thick of it, just every night was kind
of going through a huge list of questions that Tom
would send us, going through sample after sample up to sample,
(05:30):
and then it's one of those things that it feels
like it's never gonna end and you're just drowning in
decisions and you kind of can't wait for it to
be over, and then it's all over and you miss
it in.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
A weird way, in a crazy way.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
So, like Laura's like, it'd be nice to do a
new reno which we're not going to do because we
would like it's just not even a possibility and we
never want to sell the house.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Oh that's lovely. I think Val would be happy.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah, it's funny. Whenever we're there, we always get the
neighbors who like pop in because everyone always says that
Vowel's policy was the door is always open, so neighbors
would always drop in, kids would always drop in, and
she was a uan interpreter, and so she had all
of these incredible stories, Oh my gosh. And so all
(06:21):
of the neighborhood loved her so much and loved the
house and the fact that we've brought it back to
what it once was and didn't knock it down. Yeah,
it's one of some fans with the locals.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Well, it's always good to have the neighbors on site.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah. Yeah. And there were a few times where we
thought it is in such a bad state. It's just
it's going to be cheaper and quick it is to
knock it down.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
And why didn't you We just we just.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Loved like what the house originally was. Yeah, and we thought,
you know, it's even though we never met Val, Yeah,
but we had this sounds so woo woo. But we
felt this connection to vowel in the house, and we
thought we just wanted to really honor her work and
her vision that she first had. I think maybe when
(07:06):
you get a little bit older, like I'm almost forty now,
and you start to appreciate things that are pre loved,
not brand new.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Also, we've talked about the dream renovation. Now we're getting
into the part every home has, even the beautiful ones,
laundry stains, well maybe not everyone has a guest turnover,
but all those invisible jobs that keep the home running.
So let's change gears a little bit here because I
(07:35):
want to hear more about how do you and Laura
run it as a do you call it an airbnb?
It property let? Who is setting up the welcome baskets?
I saw you for your first guest, you did a
welcome basket.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, So we wanted to have a few little, nice,
homely touches. So there's like a bakery called Lagone Bakery,
which does amazing sour doughs. When guests arrive, the bread
is there on the bench top. There's local chocolate Cupit's
wineries down the road, so there's also their wineers in
the fridge as well. So there's a nod to some
(08:12):
of the local suppliers down there, and one of the builders,
his wife is just down the road, and so we
became really close to some of the trade traders who
are working on the house and got to know one
particular family. So she now manages it for us.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah. Yeah, so she's shout out to Inger if she's
such an amazing job. And so when everyone arrives, Inger
is there to greet you and then show you around
the house. I mean there's some things like with the
wiring with a house that's not brand new. Sometimes you're like,
(08:51):
this switch here controls a light that's in the other room,
which is just it was the easiest way to do
it with the sparky rather than rewiring absolutely everything and
have the money. So she's then agree, you can also
tell you what some of the light switches do because
it doesn't quite make sense.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I think it makes it quite exciting. Yeah, So Inga's
doing the maintenance of turnovers, that's it.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Are you particular about things like what bed sheets or
tell what washing detergent do you use?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah? So we even when it came to the bed sheets.
We wanted to kind of still keep to that the
warm tones of the house, tying in some of the
natural wood and the marble and the tiles, so it
all kind of feels a little bit cohesive. My wife
Laura chose all the bedding, all the towels. That's her domain.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
She's got great taste.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
But then we also wanted to make sure that, you know,
the basics are there. So there is milk in the fridge,
you know, if you have to do your laundry, there's
omo in the basket. This capsules there.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
So God, I love a bit of omo.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It's such a massive help. And so we want to
make sure that as soon as people are right they
can kind of hit the ground running. They don't have
to like nip off to the shops and start getting
the essentials. So I hope they appreciate it. I mean
we sometimes I really want a message and be like
did you like the imo? Was it helpful?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Was it did you like the Cupid's wine? Did you literally?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
But we yeah, we need to figure out I think
we need to do like Google reviews to get people's feedback.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
It's a great idea.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I think people are enjoying the stays so far.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Because I do always wonder about those things. How do
you cater for allergies? Or do people leave you notes
like do you know if you have to leave out
a gluten free snack?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Or it's hard because how you know how much attention
to detail? Where does it end? And we were like, look,
let's just leave it as. We'll ask what milk they want.
That's fair and that's it, and that's kind of like,
you know, if they're intolerant to the sour dough and
they need something that's gluten free. Sorry, getting stuck with
(11:00):
this hour day. Yeah, it's have a cup of tea
and we've got a little book there that explains everything.
And the biggest fear because we we were like, oh,
we heard some horror stories when people rent out the
house for a short term rental that you know, you
think it's going over to like a lovely couple and
their family, and it's actually going to be you know,
twenty people who have a party. And so we're pretty
(11:21):
strict and we're like, hey, you can't have any parties
and you've got to respect the neighbors, so you can't.
So so far, touch Wood everyone's been very respectful. That's
good of the house. We haven't had any issues because
we were like, are we going to hand the house
over to guests? Yeah, and is it just going to
get absolutely.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Trashed because it's quite a worry. Oh yeah, I'd be
thinking about that.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Constantly, totally totally.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Who thinks about it more? You or Laura?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I think it's both of us both and even like
it sounds really wanky to say, but with the Marvel
benchtops in the kitchen, lemon juice really is the nightmare
for marble. And we've had one guest over Christmas that
was staying with us. They had a corona. They put
the lemon juice by the lemon wedge and it just
(12:13):
corrodes the marble. It's like, it's not fair what leon
juice does to marble. And I'm like, but how do
we know the guests won't do that themselves? It's true
and yeah, so thankfully I think now that we're a
couple of months into people staying there, yeah, it kind
of does. We've just like accepted it is what it is. Yeah,
(12:33):
and things will get damaged and things will get you know,
need repairing, but that's just part pascel.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Yeah, so we have some of our own house rules questions,
but I'm wondering if we could ask these questions in
relation to your own home. Yep, because we are curious
about things like shoes.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
On or off, shoes are off?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Okay, We're all about comfort or cleanliness.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Because Poppy is seven months and she's crawling. Yeah, she's
all over the floor. Yeah, and Laura has to remind
me constantly that keep shoes at the front door, and
for Poppy's.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Sake, for Poppy's sake, for Poppy.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Yeah, poor little thing. She's in a onesie and I'll
pick her up and she's like been mopping the floor
with her onesie.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I know they're very helpful.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah, I know, I know. So shoes are off?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
What about candles always burning? Absolutely? Never or always for guests?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Never? Really? Okay, we haven't. There are candles in the house,
but both Laura and I are very forgetful and we
just don't trust ourselves around candles. And also with the girls.
Marley's only seven, Lolas five. It's just it's I don't
think kids and candles are a perfect match.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
No, agree. What about something in your home that is
always fresh?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
This is the first thing that popped into my head
was milk.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Great. No, this is good.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
We go through about three liters of milk every day.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Oh my gosh, everyone's on the milk everyone's on the
milk train.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I love it. I love it, the kids love it.
My mum, who lives with us, loves it. So there
was always we were forever chasing fresh milk.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Great, we know where to come. So what about We
spoke about laundry at champ Mayer. How about your place?
How often do the sheets get changed?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
We should probably do it more often. I think there
was a I said to Laura. I was like, hey,
when did we last wash the kids sheets? And she's like,
I have no idea, and I'm neither can I. And
it's been a lot. We're talking, yeah, not weeks. It's
been like.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
It's been a while, do you know what? I think
it doesn't matter as much because with my son, he's
always in our bed anyway, right, doesn't get.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Used exactly exactly. We put them asleep in their bed
and then we wake up with all the kids. Poor
Poppies on her own now she's just been kicked out
of the bedroom. She's got her own room. Marlon and Lola.
They are forever coming in for cuddles in the middle
of the night. But yeah, the laundry, I think now
that I've got a family, and with my mum living
(15:11):
with us as well, it's just it's a job that
is relentless.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I know you own at home as well.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah, so laundry is my domain. I think I now
appreciate how much of those tasks are helpful. Take them
off the plate of my wife, and there's so much
that she does at home, but we're very segregated in
our rules. So for example, like I always do the bins,
I always do the garden, the laundry is my domain.
(15:38):
You know. On our podcast as well, we talk about
parenting and we try and encourage men as much as
they can to take on those jobs at home, like
the laundry, because it makes such a huge difference in
sharing the mental load and as basic as it sounds,
and it's so easy for something like the laundry to
feel like not a big job. It's just you know,
(15:59):
you put a lot on. It's true, once a day,
every couple of days, but you know, I think if
you can stay on top of it as a husband,
as a partner as a man, I think it makes
a huge difference, and it's such an easy task to
do exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I also think for anyone listening who is not the
mental load carrier, also don't ask what can I do,
because it just gives us the ships. Right, it's not
you know, I'm still delegating. I'm still carrying that mental
load if you're carrying the physical one totally.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
If you are listening right now and you are a man,
just go into the laundry right now, just if there's
nothing the laundry basket, just strip a bed, do a load,
and trust me, it's going to be appreciated.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
If it's not, if you're not getting showered and praised,
just know that internally your partner is appreciating what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
At what point did you go, oh, I think Laura
might be carrying a little more than me.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I think early on, when we first started having kids,
I think it's really easy for men to fallm the
trap of, you know, in the first few months with
a newborn. For us, anyway, the kids were very attached
to mum, and it's easy to just think, oh that
she's got it sorted, you know, I'll let her be
(17:16):
hands on because that's what she wants.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Sometimes people say that's what she wants or that's the
way she likes it. I don't want to mess with
her routine exactly.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
And I think it took us multiple conversations of you know,
understanding what was going to help Laura, what was the
best thing for me to take on, what did she
want to still hold the reins with. So we're lucky
that we do have really good communication the end, there
were moments where I wasn't doing enough, and it was
great to look at what things I should have been
(17:47):
prioritizing that I now know Laura really wanted help with.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
That's amazing. Thank you for putting that out there into
the world.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah, I think we're in a generation where a lot
of dads are being more hands on, which is amazing,
But you know, at the same time, I think we're
still so far from where it should be with sharing
the mental load, not just as parents, but around the
house especially. It'd be amazing to see what it will
be like for my girls when they grow up and
(18:17):
if they have partners, hoping it'll be even better than
what it is right now.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
What do you hope for for them, for their futures.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
It's a little bit scary right now with the world
and you know, everything feels pretty tumultuous.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I know. I just hosted an event that was future
focused and I met a humanoid.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Oh wow, and it.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Was it was amazing. And I was interviewing the professor
about it and the humanoids walking up to the stage
and I turned to the professor and I said, is
the humanoid responding to us? And she just looked at
me and goes, no, robot.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, yeah, It's wild what the future is going to
be like. And already I know that the girls are
growing up to be really confident, really brave, really intelligent,
really fun, and I just want that to continue, and
I want them to be to be happy regardless of,
you know, what the world is like around them. I
(19:24):
hope they can still be as happy as they are
right now.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Absolutely, Matt. Now is a good time, I think to
move on to something else that I love here on
the edit. The Mystery Draw. The mystery draw, so we
love it when our guests bring in something from their
homes to share their Mystery Draw items. What have you
brought in?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Well, so we we found this when we were renovating
the house down in Ala Dalla and it was in
one of the addicts and we tried to return it
to the the owners, the children of Val.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Can you describe what it is for anyone listening.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
So this is an old brown photo album with the
beautiful red and green stripe down the center Gucci stylight.
It is very good, yes, well spotted, and we tried
to reach out to return it. It wasn't wanted. So
we now are the owners of this photo album. And
it's funny how it feels like history repeating itself because
(20:27):
this is when Val first bought the block of land.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Really and I can, let's have a look, hand it
over to you. This is incredible time capsule.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
In the same way that we documented the renovation process
on social media. For us, it's it's vowel capturing all
the process, all the miles moments of when she built
the house from an empty block of land. And it's
amazing seeing us stand there as they're like doing the
foundations and the brick work. And then we've got similar
(21:05):
style photos, but just a digital version, not the photo album.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
This is wild. Yeah, it's history.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Repeating It really is and you know, I wonder, you know,
at some point we may not be here and the
house will be belonging to someone else. If they'll stumble
across shunt Mayor on Instagram and be like, oh wow,
look it's them deciding whether they should do a shower
or a bath and double shower. What are they thinking? Idiots?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Is this the corner bar.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
That's the corner bar.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yeah, it's pink.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
It's a pink corner bar.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Val she loved pink.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
She loved pink. A lot of pink in the house.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
This is amazing. And is this vow?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Who's that?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
That's beautiful Val.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Beautiful vow in her very chic sunglasses, looking pleased as
punch with her home.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah. So it's it's nice to, you know, to look
back and look at all the amazing work that Val
did and a little insight into what her vision was
when she first she first got it.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Absolutely. Oh man, I love this. I could just sit
and look at this all day. Do you have a
favorite picture.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I do like looking at it when it was just
just an empty block of land. Yeah, just hear it
before anything was done to it. So that's about almost
fifty years ago and is this the view, that's the
that's the car park just next to the house. So
that's racecourse beach.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Wow, just spectacular.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, So we hold onto this and it's a nice
reminder of how far the house has come. The journey
of the house has got a laugh of its own.
The house is very much a person as much as
it is just a house.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
And it'll be interesting to see what your daughters do
with it one day or so.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I know they better not bloody sell it.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
So the girls are forbidden from selling the house, I hope.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
So, I mean they can sell that once we're dead,
they can't say whilst we're still alive. If I'm in
a home and I find out they've sold it, I'll
be very disappointed in them.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Do you see this as the place that you spend
your what do we call them that? The golden years?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I hope. So, I mean even we love it so
much going down there, and it's it's a much slower
pace than it is in Sydney. And I think eventually
when the girls are children, all grown up and they've
got their own lives and the longer living with us,
I think it will be a spot where that's where
me and Laura will be Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Can do you have a vision in mind?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I think I'll be I'll be there on the rocks fishing,
catching dinner as Laura's yelling at me to come in
for dinner. That's the vision.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah, absolutely, adylic What does it mean to you to
be a homemaker raising daughters but being a man who
clearly shares the mental load. What does the modern version
of being a homemaker mean to you?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah, I don't know if I To me, it's it
doesn't feel like it's anything other than just normal life. Really,
you know, it's it's what I always wanted, and it's
it's the type of pennything that I always thought I
would have, So for me, it just feels really natural.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yeah, so you said this is what you always wanted?
Is this something that you had envisaged or what is
it about this life that you always wanted?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah? I always grew up. I'm one of five kids,
so I always wanted to have a really busy household
that was similar to what it was like for me
when I was growing up, with being friends with your
siblings and for me, my biggest priority having a family.
And and it's funny because you kind of forget about
(25:05):
what life was like before you have kids, Like I
try and cast my mind back before I met Laura,
before Marley, Lala and Poppy were born, and it's really
hard to imagine what that was like, and also trying
to think of what my mindset was like now. You know,
being a parent is such a firm part of my identity.
It's like I can't imagine any other way. But I think,
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do you know what it's I would say, we've been
incredibly lucky, like we know that, you know, to be
able to have a home in Sydney and also have
this beautiful holiday home as well than an Aladullah. We
are so incredibly fortunate, and we've worked really hard at
the same time. Absolutely, but it's you know, when I
look back at that photo where I was standing in
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the main bedroom, you know, flanked by Marley and Lola,
Like I never imagined that I would own all the
bank owns most of it, but you would cow it
would be ours. Yeah, I never imagined it. You know,
some times it's important to remember, you know, you acclimatize
so quickly to your new surroundings and environment, and this
is a life that was so much better than I
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ever thought possible.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
So with that in mind and chant Meyer in mind,
what makes a home beautiful to you?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I think just a home that's happy. Yeah, I think.
I think it's really nice to have some of the
superficial elements of like the tiles and the marble and
the age brass tapware. But I think a really beautiful
home is a home that that has laughter, yeah, and smiles,
And as cliche as that sounds, that's what I think
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is most important.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
I couldn't agree more. Matt thank you so much for
joining us here today, coming over to our home here
at the edit and sharing this chapter of your life.
We can't wait to find out what happens next.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
It's been a pleasure. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
That was Matty Jay on life after the Dream, renovation,
opening chand Mayer up as a sanctuary stay and the
real work of making a home beautiful function for family,
guests and everyday life. You can see more from Matty
and Laura's chantmyr renovation through Home Beautiful and follow the
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This is an our media podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
With the Marble bench tops in the kitchen. Lemon juice
really is the nightmare for marble. And we've had one
guest over Christmas that was staying with us. They put
the lemon juice by the worm wedge and it just
corrodes the marble. It's like, it's not fair no what
loreuice does to marble. If you are listening right now
(00:30):
and you are a man, just go into the laundry
right now. If there's nothing the laundry basket, just strip
a bed, do a load, and trust me, it's going
to be appreciated.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
We're back with part two of my chat with Maddy j.
If you're rejoining us after listening to part one, welcome back.
But if you haven't already listened to part one, scroll
back up in your feed, listen to part one and
then join me back here again later. So what exactly
does Matt leave for his guests in their welcome basket?
(01:07):
And what's the one part about renting out Shan Tmyer
that keeps him up at night? We are about to
find out. So what kind of guests do you have?
What do you hope to have?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I don't know, I'm always really inquisitive about who's booking
stays because we built our own website and so the
bookings we don't get to like vet them in any way,
like we just you know, once they book it, that's it.
We ask how many people are staying, and that's it.
I hope it's you know, it could be anyone, you know, young,
(01:38):
young families, girl weekends. My mum's got a weekend coming
up next week where she's got five of her girlfriends
and they're on their seventies and they're having a stay there.
So anyone who's just going to enjoy the house is
what I hope for.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
I was talking to a builder up in Byron recently
and he has a house that he and his wife
a B and B. And he said, we can get
like twelve guys at a Bucks party stay, or you
can have a family same size, loads of kids stay.
Who do you think is the tidier the house is
(02:17):
in worse condition after who?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Do you know? What my fear would be the Bucks weekend.
I really hope everyone stays at the house for a
Bucks weekend. I'm hoping that it's families, And I know
it's like when you agonize over every detail of a renovation.
I think the hardest thing is then allowing the house
to be lived in and with our own kids. That
was really difficult because you know, like when we did
(02:40):
the final handover with our builder, any little imperfection on
the paint, you know, we would say can that be
fixed up? Yep? And then Tom was amazing. He made
everything perfect. And then the second the kids are in there,
they're drawing on the walls, they got their Matchbok cars
all on the skirting. They really just destroy the place instantly,
(03:02):
And it's so weird to go from one second you
have a magnifying glass over every nook and cranny and
then the next the kids are just running a mark
and you're also, as much as you're trying to tell
them to behave you kind of.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Know that they need to have a good time to
exactly exactly exactly how often do you get to stay there? Now?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
So lately it's been pretty busy and we've only been
renting it out for about two months now and so
straight away got really booked out most weekends. But Laura
and I are having our first weekend this coming without
the kids.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So, wow, have you done that before.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
No, so we would like do we bring Poppy. We've
got an amazing babysitter and also my mum lives with
us here in Sydney. So I think we're going to
leave all three kids in very capable hands and we're
going to have a weekend. They're just the two of us,
which we're really excited about.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Do you think you'll be able to relax or we'd
be looking around thinking, right, we need to touch that up.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
We need to Yeah, like every time we've been down there,
and it's kind of like once a month we try
and get down there, and then every time we see something,
we're like, oh we should put another plant here. We'll
go down to the nursery, we'll plant that. Or I'm like,
oh we should we should fix up this corner over here,
or I might gourn you like the driveway because it's
getting a little bit dirty. Yeah, it's really hard to
(04:24):
like switch off and I bet just enjoy it. So guests,
that's it. So I think we're going to try and
just enjoy it. That's the plan. Good luck, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
What is life after the renovation? Is there anything you
wish you'd done differently? And is it finished.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
There's definitely more that we'd love to do to the hounds.
I mean someone even said, you know, it'll be nice
put a pool at the back, and I was like,
that's a great suggestion. We just don't have a scent.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Spare exactly to do that few more bookings.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, So so I think we'll always be tinkering with
it because it is such an old house that it's
never going to be quite perfect. There's always something that
needs a little touch.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Up, and that's probably a good thing.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, yeah, I think so. I'm so glad we did
like bring it back to a former glory, but now
it's a lot more relaxed. Was when we were like
in the thick of it, just every night was kind
of going through a huge list of questions that Tom
would send us, going through sample after sample up to sample,
(05:30):
and then it's one of those things that it feels
like it's never gonna end and you're just drowning in
decisions and you kind of can't wait for it to
be over, and then it's all over and you miss
it in.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
A weird way, in a crazy way.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
So, like Laura's like, it'd be nice to do a
new reno which we're not going to do because we
would like it's just not even a possibility and we
never want to sell the house.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Oh that's lovely. I think Val would be happy.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah, it's funny. Whenever we're there, we always get the
neighbors who like pop in because everyone always says that
Vowel's policy was the door is always open, so neighbors
would always drop in, kids would always drop in, and
she was a uan interpreter, and so she had all
of these incredible stories, Oh my gosh. And so all
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of the neighborhood loved her so much and loved the
house and the fact that we've brought it back to
what it once was and didn't knock it down. Yeah,
it's one of some fans with the locals.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Well, it's always good to have the neighbors on site.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Yeah. Yeah. And there were a few times where we
thought it is in such a bad state. It's just
it's going to be cheaper and quick it is to
knock it down.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
And why didn't you We just we just.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Loved like what the house originally was. Yeah, and we thought,
you know, it's even though we never met Val, Yeah,
but we had this sounds so woo woo. But we
felt this connection to vowel in the house, and we
thought we just wanted to really honor her work and
her vision that she first had. I think maybe when
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you get a little bit older, like I'm almost forty now,
and you start to appreciate things that are pre loved,
not brand new.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Also, we've talked about the dream renovation. Now we're getting
into the part every home has, even the beautiful ones,
laundry stains, well maybe not everyone has a guest turnover,
but all those invisible jobs that keep the home running.
So let's change gears a little bit here because I
(07:35):
want to hear more about how do you and Laura
run it as a do you call it an airbnb?
It property let? Who is setting up the welcome baskets?
I saw you for your first guest, you did a
welcome basket.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, So we wanted to have a few little, nice,
homely touches. So there's like a bakery called Lagone Bakery,
which does amazing sour doughs. When guests arrive, the bread
is there on the bench top. There's local chocolate Cupit's
wineries down the road, so there's also their wineers in
the fridge as well. So there's a nod to some
(08:12):
of the local suppliers down there, and one of the builders,
his wife is just down the road, and so we
became really close to some of the trade traders who
are working on the house and got to know one
particular family. So she now manages it for us.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah. Yeah, so she's shout out to Inger if she's
such an amazing job. And so when everyone arrives, Inger
is there to greet you and then show you around
the house. I mean there's some things like with the
wiring with a house that's not brand new. Sometimes you're like,
(08:51):
this switch here controls a light that's in the other room,
which is just it was the easiest way to do
it with the sparky rather than rewiring absolutely everything and
have the money. So she's then agree, you can also
tell you what some of the light switches do because
it doesn't quite make sense.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
I think it makes it quite exciting. Yeah, So Inga's
doing the maintenance of turnovers, that's it.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Are you particular about things like what bed sheets or
tell what washing detergent do you use?
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah? So we even when it came to the bed sheets.
We wanted to kind of still keep to that the
warm tones of the house, tying in some of the
natural wood and the marble and the tiles, so it
all kind of feels a little bit cohesive. My wife
Laura chose all the bedding, all the towels. That's her domain.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
She's got great taste.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
But then we also wanted to make sure that, you know,
the basics are there. So there is milk in the fridge,
you know, if you have to do your laundry, there's
omo in the basket. This capsules there.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
So God, I love a bit of omo.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
It's such a massive help. And so we want to
make sure that as soon as people are right they
can kind of hit the ground running. They don't have
to like nip off to the shops and start getting
the essentials. So I hope they appreciate it. I mean
we sometimes I really want a message and be like
did you like the imo? Was it helpful?
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Was it did you like the Cupid's wine? Did you literally?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
But we yeah, we need to figure out I think
we need to do like Google reviews to get people's feedback.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
It's a great idea.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
I think people are enjoying the stays so far.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Because I do always wonder about those things. How do
you cater for allergies? Or do people leave you notes
like do you know if you have to leave out
a gluten free snack?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Or it's hard because how you know how much attention
to detail? Where does it end? And we were like, look,
let's just leave it as. We'll ask what milk they want.
That's fair and that's it, and that's kind of like,
you know, if they're intolerant to the sour dough and
they need something that's gluten free. Sorry, getting stuck with
(11:00):
this hour day. Yeah, it's have a cup of tea
and we've got a little book there that explains everything.
And the biggest fear because we we were like, oh,
we heard some horror stories when people rent out the
house for a short term rental that you know, you
think it's going over to like a lovely couple and
their family, and it's actually going to be you know,
twenty people who have a party. And so we're pretty
(11:21):
strict and we're like, hey, you can't have any parties
and you've got to respect the neighbors, so you can't.
So so far, touch Wood everyone's been very respectful. That's
good of the house. We haven't had any issues because
we were like, are we going to hand the house
over to guests? Yeah, and is it just going to
get absolutely.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Trashed because it's quite a worry. Oh yeah, I'd be
thinking about that.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Constantly, totally totally.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Who thinks about it more? You or Laura?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I think it's both of us both and even like
it sounds really wanky to say, but with the Marvel
benchtops in the kitchen, lemon juice really is the nightmare
for marble. And we've had one guest over Christmas that
was staying with us. They had a corona. They put
the lemon juice by the lemon wedge and it just
(12:13):
corrodes the marble. It's like, it's not fair what leon
juice does to marble. And I'm like, but how do
we know the guests won't do that themselves? It's true
and yeah, so thankfully I think now that we're a
couple of months into people staying there, yeah, it kind
of does. We've just like accepted it is what it is. Yeah,
(12:33):
and things will get damaged and things will get you know,
need repairing, but that's just part pascel.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
Yeah, so we have some of our own house rules questions,
but I'm wondering if we could ask these questions in
relation to your own home. Yep, because we are curious
about things like shoes.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
On or off, shoes are off?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Okay, We're all about comfort or cleanliness.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Because Poppy is seven months and she's crawling. Yeah, she's
all over the floor. Yeah, and Laura has to remind
me constantly that keep shoes at the front door, and
for Poppy's.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Sake, for Poppy's sake, for Poppy.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Yeah, poor little thing. She's in a onesie and I'll
pick her up and she's like been mopping the floor
with her onesie.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
I know they're very helpful.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah, I know, I know. So shoes are off?
Speaker 1 (13:22):
What about candles always burning? Absolutely? Never or always for guests?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Never? Really? Okay, we haven't. There are candles in the house,
but both Laura and I are very forgetful and we
just don't trust ourselves around candles. And also with the girls.
Marley's only seven, Lolas five. It's just it's I don't
think kids and candles are a perfect match.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
No, agree. What about something in your home that is
always fresh?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
This is the first thing that popped into my head
was milk.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Great. No, this is good.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
We go through about three liters of milk every day.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Oh my gosh, everyone's on the milk everyone's on the
milk train.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I love it. I love it, the kids love it.
My mum, who lives with us, loves it. So there
was always we were forever chasing fresh milk.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Great, we know where to come. So what about We
spoke about laundry at champ Mayer. How about your place?
How often do the sheets get changed?
Speaker 2 (14:27):
We should probably do it more often. I think there
was a I said to Laura. I was like, hey,
when did we last wash the kids sheets? And she's like,
I have no idea, and I'm neither can I. And
it's been a lot. We're talking, yeah, not weeks. It's
been like.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
It's been a while, do you know what? I think
it doesn't matter as much because with my son, he's
always in our bed anyway, right, doesn't get.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Used exactly exactly. We put them asleep in their bed
and then we wake up with all the kids. Poor
Poppies on her own now she's just been kicked out
of the bedroom. She's got her own room. Marlon and Lola.
They are forever coming in for cuddles in the middle
of the night. But yeah, the laundry, I think now
that I've got a family, and with my mum living
(15:11):
with us as well, it's just it's a job that
is relentless.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I know you own at home as well.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah, so laundry is my domain. I think I now
appreciate how much of those tasks are helpful. Take them
off the plate of my wife, and there's so much
that she does at home, but we're very segregated in
our rules. So for example, like I always do the bins,
I always do the garden, the laundry is my domain.
(15:38):
You know. On our podcast as well, we talk about
parenting and we try and encourage men as much as
they can to take on those jobs at home, like
the laundry, because it makes such a huge difference in
sharing the mental load and as basic as it sounds,
and it's so easy for something like the laundry to
feel like not a big job. It's just you know,
(15:59):
you put a lot on. It's true, once a day,
every couple of days, but you know, I think if
you can stay on top of it as a husband,
as a partner as a man, I think it makes
a huge difference, and it's such an easy task to
do exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
I also think for anyone listening who is not the
mental load carrier, also don't ask what can I do,
because it just gives us the ships. Right, it's not
you know, I'm still delegating. I'm still carrying that mental
load if you're carrying the physical one totally.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
If you are listening right now and you are a man,
just go into the laundry right now, just if there's
nothing the laundry basket, just strip a bed, do a load,
and trust me, it's going to be appreciated.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
If it's not, if you're not getting showered and praised,
just know that internally your partner is appreciating what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
At what point did you go, oh, I think Laura
might be carrying a little more than me.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I think early on, when we first started having kids,
I think it's really easy for men to fallm the
trap of, you know, in the first few months with
a newborn. For us, anyway, the kids were very attached
to mum, and it's easy to just think, oh that
she's got it sorted, you know, I'll let her be
(17:16):
hands on because that's what she wants.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Sometimes people say that's what she wants or that's the
way she likes it. I don't want to mess with
her routine exactly.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
And I think it took us multiple conversations of you know,
understanding what was going to help Laura, what was the
best thing for me to take on, what did she
want to still hold the reins with. So we're lucky
that we do have really good communication the end, there
were moments where I wasn't doing enough, and it was
great to look at what things I should have been
(17:47):
prioritizing that I now know Laura really wanted help with.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
That's amazing. Thank you for putting that out there into
the world.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah, I think we're in a generation where a lot
of dads are being more hands on, which is amazing,
But you know, at the same time, I think we're
still so far from where it should be with sharing
the mental load, not just as parents, but around the
house especially. It'd be amazing to see what it will
be like for my girls when they grow up and
(18:17):
if they have partners, hoping it'll be even better than
what it is right now.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
What do you hope for for them, for their futures.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
It's a little bit scary right now with the world
and you know, everything feels pretty tumultuous.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I know. I just hosted an event that was future
focused and I met a humanoid.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Oh wow, and it.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Was it was amazing. And I was interviewing the professor
about it and the humanoids walking up to the stage
and I turned to the professor and I said, is
the humanoid responding to us? And she just looked at
me and goes, no, robot.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, yeah, It's wild what the future is going to
be like. And already I know that the girls are
growing up to be really confident, really brave, really intelligent,
really fun, and I just want that to continue, and
I want them to be to be happy regardless of,
you know, what the world is like around them. I
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hope they can still be as happy as they are
right now.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Absolutely, Matt. Now is a good time, I think to
move on to something else that I love here on
the edit. The Mystery Draw. The mystery draw, so we
love it when our guests bring in something from their
homes to share their Mystery Draw items. What have you
brought in?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Well, so we we found this when we were renovating
the house down in Ala Dalla and it was in
one of the addicts and we tried to return it
to the the owners, the children of Val.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Can you describe what it is for anyone listening.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
So this is an old brown photo album with the
beautiful red and green stripe down the center Gucci stylight.
It is very good, yes, well spotted, and we tried
to reach out to return it. It wasn't wanted. So
we now are the owners of this photo album. And
it's funny how it feels like history repeating itself because
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this is when Val first bought the block of land.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
Really and I can, let's have a look, hand it
over to you. This is incredible time capsule.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
In the same way that we documented the renovation process
on social media. For us, it's it's vowel capturing all
the process, all the miles moments of when she built
the house from an empty block of land. And it's
amazing seeing us stand there as they're like doing the
foundations and the brick work. And then we've got similar
(21:05):
style photos, but just a digital version, not the photo album.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
This is wild. Yeah, it's history.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Repeating It really is and you know, I wonder, you know,
at some point we may not be here and the
house will be belonging to someone else. If they'll stumble
across shunt Mayor on Instagram and be like, oh wow,
look it's them deciding whether they should do a shower
or a bath and double shower. What are they thinking? Idiots?
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Is this the corner bar.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
That's the corner bar.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yeah, it's pink.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
It's a pink corner bar.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Val she loved pink.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
She loved pink. A lot of pink in the house.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
This is amazing. And is this vow?
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Who's that?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
That's beautiful Val.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Beautiful vow in her very chic sunglasses, looking pleased as
punch with her home.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah. So it's it's nice to, you know, to look
back and look at all the amazing work that Val
did and a little insight into what her vision was
when she first she first got it.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Absolutely. Oh man, I love this. I could just sit
and look at this all day. Do you have a
favorite picture.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I do like looking at it when it was just
just an empty block of land. Yeah, just hear it
before anything was done to it. So that's about almost
fifty years ago and is this the view, that's the
that's the car park just next to the house. So
that's racecourse beach.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Wow, just spectacular.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Yeah, So we hold onto this and it's a nice
reminder of how far the house has come. The journey
of the house has got a laugh of its own.
The house is very much a person as much as
it is just a house.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
And it'll be interesting to see what your daughters do
with it one day or so.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
I know they better not bloody sell it.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
So the girls are forbidden from selling the house, I hope.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
So, I mean they can sell that once we're dead,
they can't say whilst we're still alive. If I'm in
a home and I find out they've sold it, I'll
be very disappointed in them.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Do you see this as the place that you spend
your what do we call them that? The golden years?
Speaker 2 (23:16):
I hope. So, I mean even we love it so
much going down there, and it's it's a much slower
pace than it is in Sydney. And I think eventually
when the girls are children, all grown up and they've
got their own lives and the longer living with us,
I think it will be a spot where that's where
me and Laura will be Yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Can do you have a vision in mind?
Speaker 2 (23:40):
I think I'll be I'll be there on the rocks fishing,
catching dinner as Laura's yelling at me to come in
for dinner. That's the vision.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah, absolutely, adylic What does it mean to you to
be a homemaker raising daughters but being a man who
clearly shares the mental load. What does the modern version
of being a homemaker mean to you?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah, I don't know if I To me, it's it
doesn't feel like it's anything other than just normal life. Really,
you know, it's it's what I always wanted, and it's
it's the type of pennything that I always thought I
would have, So for me, it just feels really natural.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Yeah, so you said this is what you always wanted?
Is this something that you had envisaged or what is
it about this life that you always wanted?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah? I always grew up. I'm one of five kids,
so I always wanted to have a really busy household
that was similar to what it was like for me
when I was growing up, with being friends with your
siblings and for me, my biggest priority having a family.
And and it's funny because you kind of forget about
(25:05):
what life was like before you have kids, Like I
try and cast my mind back before I met Laura,
before Marley, Lala and Poppy were born, and it's really
hard to imagine what that was like, and also trying
to think of what my mindset was like now. You know,
being a parent is such a firm part of my identity.
It's like I can't imagine any other way. But I think,
(25:26):
do you know what it's I would say, we've been
incredibly lucky, like we know that, you know, to be
able to have a home in Sydney and also have
this beautiful holiday home as well than an Aladullah. We
are so incredibly fortunate, and we've worked really hard at
the same time. Absolutely, but it's you know, when I
look back at that photo where I was standing in
(25:47):
the main bedroom, you know, flanked by Marley and Lola,
Like I never imagined that I would own all the
bank owns most of it, but you would cow it
would be ours. Yeah, I never imagined it. You know,
some times it's important to remember, you know, you acclimatize
so quickly to your new surroundings and environment, and this
is a life that was so much better than I
(26:08):
ever thought possible.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
So with that in mind and chant Meyer in mind,
what makes a home beautiful to you?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I think just a home that's happy. Yeah, I think.
I think it's really nice to have some of the
superficial elements of like the tiles and the marble and
the age brass tapware. But I think a really beautiful
home is a home that that has laughter, yeah, and smiles,
And as cliche as that sounds, that's what I think
(26:40):
is most important.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
I couldn't agree more. Matt thank you so much for
joining us here today, coming over to our home here
at the edit and sharing this chapter of your life.
We can't wait to find out what happens next.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
It's been a pleasure. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
That was Matty Jay on life after the Dream, renovation,
opening chand Mayer up as a sanctuary stay and the
real work of making a home beautiful function for family,
guests and everyday life. You can see more from Matty
and Laura's chantmyr renovation through Home Beautiful and follow the
edit on YouTube or your favorite podcast app for more
(27:20):
house tours, home confessions, tiny upgrades, and mystery draw reveals.
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