Meet the artist who saved up for her first dwelling by drawing others

After drawing different folks’s houses for a residing, Georgia Norton Lodge has lastly bought her personal.

She describes them as “scribbly, wobbly and crammed with pleasure” however it’s these drawings of different folks’s houses which have enabled the artist to lastly purchase her personal.

The Sydneysider and her younger household have simply settled on a two-bedroom condo within the internal western suburb of Ashfield for $1.026 million.

With a $100,000 deposit saved from her enterprise, Georgia Attracts a Home, and assist from her purchaser’s agent, Georgia was capable of carve her slice of the Nice Australian Dream.

“Who knew {that a} pen and a paper might someday purchase you a home?” she advised realestate.com.au. “That’s ridiculous, that’s thoughts blowing to me.”

Georgia started her profitable aspect hustle in 2014, whereas working as a full time graphic designer in hospitality branding.

The artist sells her A5 drawings to householders all around the world. Image: Provided | @cassieellen_video

It was a small A5 drawing she manufactured from her mom’s home that propelled her onto a brand new profession trajectory, and shortly she was squeezing in drawings earlier than and after her full time job.

“I drew my mum’s home and he or she liked it. Then mum’s buddy came visiting and noticed the drawing, and stated, ‘Oh, I’ve been on the lookout for somebody to attract my home for therefore lengthy, the place did you get it executed?” Georgia defined.

“So I drew my mum’s buddy’s home, then I drew my buddy’s aunty’s home after which it blew up principally in 2019 when an article was written [about me].

“I bought a whole lot and a whole lot of orders and I stop my job the subsequent day. It was fairly wild.”

Every month she stated drawing orders flowed in, coming so far as Amsterdam, London and France.

The ‘scribbly and wobbly’ sketches begin from $190 every. Image: Instagram @georgiadrawsahouse

Georgia would scour realestate.com.au and Google Maps to seek out images of the addresses, drawing greater than 700 homes a yr. 

“Month on month I’d promote 40 in two minutes,” she says.

“It simply turned this ridiculous, wonderful revenue. But additionally, I suppose it wasn’t sustainable so I needed to change issues up.”

The sale proceeds helped her launch her personal design company. She has three workers, with drawings not the primary revenue.

Georgia is shocked that what she describes as her “naive and childlike” sketches have resonated with so many individuals.

Patrons vary from those that’ve bought the household dwelling or renovated their outdated dwelling, to even these wanting a reminiscence after somebody has died.

“I really feel like dwelling means so many issues to so many alternative folks and an image of your own home represents all of the household tales together with your histories, and your arduous work, usually,” she stated.

“These drawings aren’t this distinctive perfection – they’re scribbly and wobbly and crammed with pleasure. There’s a chaotic heat to every little thing I do and it surprises me that folks get pleasure from that a lot.”

Georgia now coaches others on easy methods to dwell out their creative desires together with her course, “Grow to be an artist from Residence”, serving to a whole lot of girls to start out a artistic enterprise for further money.

She additionally runs a program remodeling partitions into big colouring-in books and has counted Google Maps, Canva, Atlassian and Go to California amongst her purchasers.

She now coaches different artists on easy methods to create a worthwhile enterprise. Image: Provided | @cassieellen_video

She is obsessed with encouraging others to take an opportunity on themselves and possibly even earn sufficient to purchase their very own home someday.

“I’m so privileged and fortunate to do what I do and train others to do it, however there’s a components,” she factors out.

“If you happen to’re prepared to place your self on the market and work arduous, you’ll be able to doubtlessly do what you’re keen on and make some cash with it, and if not, you can begin a aspect hustle and do one thing you like to make a little bit of pocket cash – it doesn’t must turn out to be a profession, but when it does, it’ll really feel excellent and also you’ll really feel very proud.”