Your Home and Garden

TOUCH OF WHIMSY

If you’re familiar with Julie Stuart’s business alter-ego, Clever Poppy, you’ll know that her style is pretty, whimsical and packed with DIY goodness. Her most recent project, creating two unique rooms for her children Piper and Harvey, delivers her signature approach in spades. With fabulous feature wallpapers, soft gelato colours and walls dripping with DIY artwork (both hers and the kids’), Julie has turned an old office and a shared kids’ room into two utterly adorable spaces.

These two rooms have changed a lot since we bought our house more than a decade ago. They’ve both had their turn as an office, nursery and bedroom. Most

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