Nadia Bartel plans to renovate her $3.15 million Melbourne home

Nadia Bartel has announced plans to update the $3.15 million Federation home she purchased after a bitter split from ex-husband, retired AFL star Jimmy Bartel.

“We’ve had heaps of trades through the house because we’re getting a lot of different things measured up,” Bartel said on her Instagram Stories, which you can watch above.

She mentions soft furnishing upgrades like “putting new rugs through the house” and seeking new materials for her bedhead.

“Also I’ve had the joiner through because my house has, like, zero storage through the whole house, no wardrobe space – you know the way these old houses are built.”

The three-bed house was built in 1900 and despite the lack of storage, is brimming with period features such as leadlight windows, a Tessellated tiled wrap around porch, ornate ceilings and moulding.

Bartel isn’t doing a whole-house renovation, rather “looking at getting a few sections, some different things put in.”

One such fit-out will be updating the beautiful built-in shelving found in one section of the influencer’s home.

“Jess, my amazing stylist, is helping me with that. We still need to source the marble but that’s going to look really pretty if we actually do that”.

Bartel purchased the house in late 2020, shortly after she and ex-husband Jimmy offloaded their gorgeous St Kilda West spread for $3.915 million.

The former couple lived in the five-bedroom, Federation-style home with baltic pine floors, a study and a French-style kitchen, for almost two years.