The Block's Shaynna Blaze on her big move: “It was distressing!”
Shaynna Blaze is not stranger to helping people move with her work on The Block and Selling Houses Australia, but as Now to Love reports that doesn’t mean it makes it any easier for her.
The celebrity interior designer has revealed just how hard it was to part with her four-bedroom property in the Melbourne suburb of Ringwood North last year.
"I thought it wouldn't get to me," Shaynna, 55, admits. "I help people make the transition every day, so I figured it would be easy.
"But when we were packing everything up, it became very personal and I realised how much stuff I'd accumulated."
The house had been a family home, and while her children Carly, 29, and Jesse, 28, had already moved out, it was hard to ignore the pangs of nostalgia.
"So many memories in that house," Shaynna laughs.
"I had to put myself in the Selling Houses shoes and just get it done. But I remembered how distressing it was. We ended up putting everything in storage."
Shaynna has now settled down in Hawthorn with her personal trainer husband Steve Vaughan, and is loving life in Melbourne’s inner east.
"The kids moved out, we needed to downsize and where we ended up was determined by what we could afford," Shaynna explains.
Take a look at the home Shaynna said goodbye to in the gallery above, it’s a stunner!
Have you ever downsized?