‘I hate a sparse house’: Inside comedian Rhys Nicholson’s maximalist home

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‘I hate a sparse house’: Inside comedian Rhys Nicholson’s maximalist home
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Rhys and now-husband Kyran bought their first home in 2017. Not a fan of its stark white walls, the pair slowly added their personalities to the property.

“I was literally leaning out – there was a certain bit of the boat where I got phone reception,” Rhys says. “Then at a certain point, I just got a text from him that said. ‘We got it.’”

“I cook and we like having people over for dinner and having small get-togethers, so it just wasn’t conducive to that,” Rhys says. “We had a couple of dinner parties there and it was just like, ‘We need to do something about this kitchen.’”They also turned the upstairs bedroom, which was fast becoming a “junk room”, into a living area, painting the walls dark and adding a thick, soft carpet.”If we have people over for dinner, usually we kind of gravitate into there after.

The couple’s art collection is also on display, including pieces by Sydney artist Katherine Brickman and a large poster print for the ’80s film Blue Velvet, passed down from Rhys’ father. “I hate a sparse house,” Rhys says. “My parents are artists and I think I just grew up with a lot of stuff on the walls.”host Alex Dyson in 2020 – have seen Coburg evolve since they moved there, but insist it hasn’t lost its charm.so“Now there are three options in walking distance,” Kyran adds, listing Joy, a new cafe on Gaffney Street, andPerhaps the most glaring sign of the area’s gentrification is the Palace Cinema that opened at the Pentridge prison site in 2020.

‘I hate a sparse house,’ Rhys says. ‘My parents are artists and I think I just grew up with a lot of stuff on the walls.’“If I’ve got a Sunday night off, I will almost always do a roast of some sort, whether it’s just the two of us or with other people, and that’s genuinely important to me,” Rhys says.

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