Known for her stunning room transformations on Selling Houses Australia and her patient, on-brief critiques on The Block, Shaynna Blaze has showcased that good design and sound investments go hand-in-hand. But taking on the renovation of a 130-year-old historical house in regional Kyneton, Victoria – the eventual centrepiece of her six-episode Nine Network series Country Home Rescue – would offer her the best return of her career.
Blaze, 60, first bought the property, follows a young mother trying to shelter her 10-year-old son from his father’s abusive behaviour – passed down from his own childhood trauma – while also instilling in him the strength to break that cycle.