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# Open House
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/open-house/
- Published: 2011-12-06T13:51:42.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:03:08.000Z
- Description: Lucy Feagins from Melbourne blog The Design Files brought her digital content into the physical world last week, transforming all the best parts of her website into a real world house.
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, Art & Design, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:15, #author-change-2025-05-28

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Lucy Feagins from Melbourne blog [The Design Files](http://thedesignfiles.net/?ref=protein.xyz) brought her digital content into the physical world last week, transforming all the best parts of her website into a real world house.

Known locally as [‘Open House’](http://thedesignfilesopenhouse.com/?ref=protein.xyz), Feagins refurbished an entire home in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy with a little help from the talented folk featured on her site (and a lot of help from [The Project Agency](http://www.theprojectagency.com.au/?ref=protein.xyz), which collaborated on the event).

No room was spared; bathroom, living room, kitchen and backyard were all tastefully fitted out with products from locals including [Basil Bangs](http://basilbangs.com/?ref=protein.xyz), [Mr Kitly](http://www.mrkitly.com.au/?ref=protein.xyz), [Beci Orpin](http://beciorpin.com/?ref=protein.xyz), [David Bromley](http://www.davidbromley.com.au/?ref=protein.xyz), [Nicholas Jones](http://www.bibliopath.org/?ref=protein.xyz), [Joost](http://byjoost.com/?ref=protein.xyz) and many more. There was even a coffee cart on the roof deck and a MINI in the drive.

The project ran for a total of four days (December 1 – 4) and worked as well for designers as it did for visitors; the latter were welcome to purchase whatever took their fancy and many products are still for sale (for a limited time) [online](http://thedesignfilesopenhouse.com/product/viewbygroup/BySupplier/JARDAN?ref=protein.xyz).

Open House plugs directly into the global trend of enhancing and enriching an online platform by realising it as an offline experience and (importantly) connecting like-minded people in the process.

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