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24 Feb 2025
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Description
The house is close to everything: 7 min walking to the train station, 20 min by train to Katoomba, direct train to Sydney Central station. Have Spa, Sauna which you can use sometimes under my supervision...Feel free to ask if you have any questions.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
Help around the house
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
Originally we are from Russia. We travelled a lot and still can't stop travelling, so we understand workawyers very well and trying to help young travellers as much as we can. We spent in Australia over 20 years and know country and local area very well. Usually we have very interesting conversations and activities with our workawayers. We can direct you to good bushwalks, waterfalls, water holes.
Help
We are a part of Sustainable House Day on 21 April 2024 as one of the most inspiring sustainable houses in Australia. To get ready for this event we asking for help to clean up the house and garden and manage people on that day, so we may accept one workawayer from 10 to 22 April. You will learn about sustainability principles in building and sustainable living.
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Russian: Fluent
Accommodation
A room with a queen bed upstairs. Toilet and shower is downstairs. Only one person can stay in the guest room. Upstairs is our yoga and meditation area with polished wooden floor. We have a policy no shoes upstairs.
What else ...
I am currently fasting and not cooking food. We have very good shops within walking distance, very affordable prices, best prices for food in Blue Mountains. I can do some food shopping for you or we reduce working hours, we will discuss it on spot.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Host ref number: 127811765251
Feedback (17)
19 Jul 2019
Left by Workawayer (Hamish) for host
This place is great! An example of how good Workaway is. I messaged saying I want to learn to build, and they invited me to help build a shed! I learned new skills, Tatiana and Jenny are wonderful hosts, and their friends that I met are all good people. Would recommend!
12 Jul 2019
Left by host for Workawayer (Hamish)
Hamish spent with us two weeks and was helping to build a garden shed. Mostly his help was to carry heavy recycled timber, sanding and assisting to our carpenter. Hamish has a gift to make everyone around feeling comfortable, we loved our joined dinners and socialising with this intelligent young man. All the best to you Hamish!!
(Excellent
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13 Nov 2018
Left by host for Workawayer (Inès)
It was a great pleasure to host Ines! And we were happy to see her coming back again and again, quite a few times. Ines is very energetic, hard working person and she also is a great entertainer! There is no job that Ines can not do. To start with she professionally estimated, designed and installed the sound system for our house (the quality of… read more
(Excellent
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13 Nov 2018
Left by host for Workawayer (Illona)
We felt blessed with Illona !! Sparkling personality, open minded, hard and fast working girl! She is good in everything she doing - household, vegetarian cousin (especially curry, we miss your curry), gardening, even power tools that she just tried and got it straight away.
But the most important thing is Illona is just a little step away from… read more
But the most important thing is Illona is just a little step away from… read more
(Excellent
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11 Nov 2018
Left by Workawayer (Illona) for host
Tatiana and Jenny are just amazing persons. I spend one month in the blue mountains at their place and it was a beautiful experience. Their house is so nice I was very comfortable there. The work was manly gardening, cleaning, and cooking. I practiced new skilled like using a chain saw and a drill! I think this is one of the best workaway that you… read more
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19 Jul 2019
Left by Workawayer (Hamish) for host
This place is great! An example of how good Workaway is. I messaged saying I want to learn to build, and they invited me to help build a shed! I learned new skills, Tatiana and Jenny are wonderful hosts, and their friends that I met are all good people. Would recommend!
12 Jul 2019
Left by host for Workawayer (Hamish)
Hamish spent with us two weeks and was helping to build a garden shed. Mostly his help was to carry heavy recycled timber, sanding and assisting to our carpenter. Hamish has a gift to make everyone around feeling comfortable, we loved our joined dinners and socialising with this intelligent young man. All the best to you Hamish!!
(Excellent)
13 Nov 2018
Left by host for Workawayer (Inès)
It was a great pleasure to host Ines! And we were happy to see her coming back again and again, quite a few times. Ines is very energetic, hard working person and she also is a great entertainer! There is no job that Ines can not do. To start with she professionally estimated, designed and installed the sound system for our house (the quality of… read more
(Excellent)
13 Nov 2018
Left by host for Workawayer (Illona)
We felt blessed with Illona !! Sparkling personality, open minded, hard and fast working girl! She is good in everything she doing - household, vegetarian cousin (especially curry, we miss your curry), gardening, even power tools that she just tried and got it straight away.
But the most important thing is Illona is just a little step away from… read more
But the most important thing is Illona is just a little step away from… read more
(Excellent)
11 Nov 2018
Left by Workawayer (Illona) for host
Tatiana and Jenny are just amazing persons. I spend one month in the blue mountains at their place and it was a beautiful experience. Their house is so nice I was very comfortable there. The work was manly gardening, cleaning, and cooking. I practiced new skilled like using a chain saw and a drill! I think this is one of the best workaway that you… read more
26 Oct 2018
Left by host for Workawayer (Darren)
Darren is very polite young man with great attention to details and very careful about any work he is doing. He stayed with us in Blue Mountains for about a month and helped us with different tasks, like moving the soil and wood, preparing the house for bush fire season (cutting tree branches, cleaning gutters), cleaning roof windows, cooking,… read more
(Excellent)
21 Oct 2018
Left by Workawayer (Darren) for host
What started off as a 5 day stay ended up being an experience of nearly 4 weeks! This was my second workaway experience and a homestay. The property is a huge ecohouse, unbelievably built from the ground up! Tatiana and Jenny were amazing hosts and it was never boring at their property. They had many friends and workawayers over and we always had… read more
21 Oct 2018
Left by host for Workawayer (Miki )
Miki is a hard working girl with attention to details, always willing to help and doing her best with any work she is given. She is curious and wants to learn new things, share her wonderful culture and get closer to Nature. Miki translated our multilingual website into Japanese language, was helping to gather medicinal plants from the garden,… read more
(Excellent)
10 Oct 2018
Left by Workawayer (Miki ) for host
I stayed at Tatiana and Jenny's wonderful house for 1 month, and that was awesome. First of all, their house is amazing, very clean and organized. And they have a beautiful permaculture garden. You can pick up fresh vegetables and fruits from the garden, and cook lunch and dinner with them. Also, Tatiana and Jenny have a lot of knowledge about… read more
31 Aug 2018
Left by host for Workawayer (XIAODONG)
We felt lucky with Steven - great character, his help is genuine, he is multi skilful and able to do any work with home maintenance and in the garden. Steven was cooking for us the finest Chinese meals, replanted trees, diagnosed and repaired a few electrical appliances and even on a way to repair our electrical piano, which we couldn't repair for… read more
(Excellent)
29 Aug 2018
Left by Workawayer (XIAODONG) for host
It's my first time to do workaway and the experience is awesome. It's not workaway, it's holidayaway while I was staying Tatiana and Jenny's home. The guest room is spacious and comfy. And everyday Tatiana showed me some wonderful places that only local people know. every evening we can a good chat about culture, movie or music etc. Living in this… read more
2 Jul 2018
Left by host for Workawayer (DA SILVA)
Ugo stayed with us for three weeks and completed a few large and complicated building projects like construction of the chain link metal fence and large garden cage, installing the gates. He also done different house maintenance tasks and cooking of the Finest French meals.
Ugo has skills in concreting, landscaping, working with jack hammer and… read more
Ugo has skills in concreting, landscaping, working with jack hammer and… read more
(Excellent)
28 May 2018
Left by host for Workawayer (Astha & ATISHAY)
Astha & Atishay are very energetic, supportive, and skilful people. They did a great work with Search Engine optimisation of our business website. This is a job I always wanted to do but never had time and sufficient skills. We enjoyed socialising and learned about Indian spices and curry. We became a very good friends and hope we will meet again.… read more
(Excellent)
28 May 2018
Left by Workawayer (Astha & ATISHAY) for host
Tatiana is a really a very nice and fun loving person. It has been a great time with her. The place is so amazing that you would love to come again and again. She is really sweet & interact with you like a old friend. She also helped us in explaining about visa process and also about Australia and her projects. It has been a great learning from… read more
23 May 2018
Left by Workawayer (Dyon) for host
I don't even know where to begin. I had such an amazing experience with Tatiana and Jenny and the whole eco home experience. I came in nervous, because this was something new to me, but left learning so much and changed the way I looked at food and my everyday life. Tatiana and Jenny are like family to me and I'm so happy I was able to spend so… read more
4 May 2018
Left by host for Workawayer (Panel-Pagz & Penel-Page)
Lea is simply the best workawayer any host can be dreaming about. She is 18 but she works better than 30 year old.. Lea has enormous sparkling energy, great working attitude, and always willing to help. Whatever jobs we were planning for Lea for a week she finished everything in one day and was asking us if she can help with anything else.. The… read more
(Excellent)
13 Apr 2018
Left by Workawayer (Panel-Pagz & Penel-Page) for host
Beautiful is the word for this experience. Such a good experience. I actually have the feeling that Tatiana and Jenny are my Australians moms. I spent around 2 months in "Eco Home Experience" and it was amazing. I learned so much things about gardening, cooking, making natural cosmetics, as well about life, about me... You will go everywhere with… read more
18 Apr 2018
Left by host for Workawayer (Stela)
We had wonderful time with Stela. She is an open minded person, willing to help people, reliable, with excellent communication skills. Apart of the help we were asking, Stela could see the help we need and helping us there as well. For example we were coming back home with heavy bags. It was a great surprise to see her coming down to the train… read more
(Excellent)
28 Mar 2018
Left by Workawayer (Stela) for host
A home away from home ! That was the feeling i had staying in the Eco House.I was welcomed and accepted immediately as part of a family.Had a wonderful time .Enjoyed gardening and cooking.Had a heart warming conversations with Jenny ,seeking her advice on various matters.Great bush walks and a quality beach time !Will never forget the aroma of the… read more
23 Jan 2018
Left by host for Workawayer (Jocelyn)
Jocelyn is a great character and talented artist with deep understanding of Nature and Being. She spent a few amazing weeks with us and left a lot of unique and memorable Gifts. Her paint on linen curtains and Venetian plaster artwork on the wall are stunning, see the pictures in our gallery. Jocelyn painted our pendant lights and turned the… read more
(Excellent)
23 Jan 2018
Left by host for Workawayer (Pal)
Pal stayed with us for about a week and helped us a lot with building a big metal garden cage. This was a hard physical job, beginning with digging holes in clay and rocks, working with jackhammer, cutting metal, concreting, levelling the cage, etc. He is a very intelligent young man with great sense of humour and variable skills. Pal, if you ever… read more
(Excellent)
16 Jan 2018
Left by host for Workawayer (Amandine)
It was our greatest pleasure to host Amandine. She is very reliable, and whatever is she doing the quality of work is always PERFECT!!
Amandine is a great character, we had the best experience of culture exchange, with lots of laughter, amazing French songs and music, tasting delicious French meals, local travels and bush walks. Whenever you are… read more
Amandine is a great character, we had the best experience of culture exchange, with lots of laughter, amazing French songs and music, tasting delicious French meals, local travels and bush walks. Whenever you are… read more
(Excellent)
15 Jan 2018
Left by Workawayer (Amandine) for host
I spent 2 weeks in november/december at Tatiana & Jenny's place and I had a great time. The house is very nice and is located near very good spots for walks and so close to the nature that you can see cockatoos flying in the garden everyday!
The work was easy and pleasant whatever the mission : gardening in the lovely garden full of different… read more
The work was easy and pleasant whatever the mission : gardening in the lovely garden full of different… read more
2 Nov 2017
Left by Workawayer (Sabrina & Katharina) for host
The. Best. Workaway.
It's hard to find words to describe how incredibly good our stay with Tatiana and Jenny was..! They are some of the loveliest and welcoming people I've ever met; I immediately felt at home and enjoyed every minute. We loved the dinners, parties, and hikes they took us on!
The work itself was fun as well, both marketing and… read more
It's hard to find words to describe how incredibly good our stay with Tatiana and Jenny was..! They are some of the loveliest and welcoming people I've ever met; I immediately felt at home and enjoyed every minute. We loved the dinners, parties, and hikes they took us on!
The work itself was fun as well, both marketing and… read more
21 Oct 2017
Left by host for Workawayer (Sabrina & Katharina)
Sabrina and Nav came like last minute workawayers when we needed them most. They helped us with a broad range of tasks like concreting, uprooting large trees, designing and managing social media pages...and all jobs were completed with " German Quality" signature. Sabrina is a great entertainer and it is a pleasure and fun to have her company. She… read more
(Excellent)
18 Oct 2017
Left by Workawayer (Felix) for host
I stayed at Tatianas and Jennys place for 3 weeks. I had an amazing time as they are really great people and showed me a lot of nice spots in the blue Mountains. In my time there I learned to build gardenbeds and to use an concret mixer while Tatiana made sure I had tons of free time to explore the Mountains. I'm looking forward to visit you guys… read more
18 Oct 2017
Left by host for Workawayer (Felix)
Felix is a hard working, big and strong boy. He helped us to build garden beds from recycled timber, and then he did enormous effort to move a lot of soil to the new garden that he built. He was moving soil for a number of days, about 2 cubic meters a day. His help is genuine, from the bottom of his heart, he was desperate to finish landscaping of… read more
(Excellent)
7 Oct 2017
Left by Workawayer (Sannamac) for host
Had a short but absolutely lovely stay with Tatiana, and couldn't have felt more welcomed! We worked mostly on photographing her eco-house -- fascinating for any ecologically-minded building enthusiasts -- and she generously showed us around the blue mountains and coastal region. If you're up for hard work in great company, want to learn about… read more
19 Aug 2017
Left by host for Workawayer (Sannamac)
Sanna represents the best of European culture. She is the most organised person I ever seen, educated, multi-talented, multi-skilled, balanced and versatile personality, easy to blend with any culture and make people around feeling comfortable. Her English is beautiful and definitely one of her main strengths. Finally Sanna appeared when we needed… read more
(Excellent)
2 Aug 2017
Left by host for Workawayer (Pavel)
Pavel spent over a month with us and we feel like he is a part of our family. Even our cat missing him now. Pavel is a person who would never say "No" to any job opportunity. It looks like he can do everything, always wants to help, and doesn't want to stop unless the job is completed. If he doesn't know how to do the job he will research it and… read more
(Excellent)
1 Aug 2017
Left by Workawayer (Pavel) for host
I stayed at this place for spectacular 6 weeks. It was time filled with hard work (concreting, paving, wood splitting) but also with lots of walks and trips to near and far surroundings. Tatiana is quite an explorer on its own and can direct you to some of the most amazing places in Blue mountains. Summed all together i strongly recommend this… read more
20 Jun 2017
Left by Workawayer (Naomi) for host
I had a great week in the Blue Mountains, you will definitely work hard but Tatiana is the best at showing you the amazing sights around the Blue Mountains. She was incredibly generous with driving me to different view points to make the most of the week I stayed with them. Both her and Jenny are very friendly and make you feel at home with some… read more
16 Jun 2017
Left by host for Workawayer (Naomi)
Naomi had only a week to stay with us and explore Blue Mountains. So, we tried the best to get the most!! She is a hard working girl with attention to details. The first day weather was good and two of us managed to paint all big house with sealant from outside within 5 hours. This was a great team work and unbelievable efficiency! Moreover, after… read more
(Excellent)
14 Apr 2017
Left by Workawayer (Rosen) for host
A great host and a lovely eco house.With a fast response and warm welcome this was an amazing place to spend a week helping out in various paint tasks where I learned a lot.This quiet Zen place will appeal to a hard working workaways who are interested in self-sustainable living, eco/passive house building, vegetarian cooking, yoga and nature… read more
13 Apr 2017
Left by host for Workawayer (Rosen)
Rosen is a hard working man, result oriented, neat and tidy, very organised, with finest European work ethics. He is a great character as well.
We enjoyed his company very much! Highly recommended workawayer.
We enjoyed his company very much! Highly recommended workawayer.
(Excellent)
13 Apr 2017
Left by host for Workawayer (Jade)
Jade brought sunshine into our house. She is amazing, everybody love her. She is very organised and happy to do any job: Jade translated our website from English to French, painted roof eave, was cooking delicious vegan food, and even was teaching us yoga!! We had a great time with Jade. Highly recommended workawayer.
(Excellent)
4 Apr 2017
Left by Workawayer (Jade) for host
I was very well welcomed and Tatiana and Jenny did everything they could to make me feel at home, which worked! The house is beautiful and very big and it is very impressing to know that they built it all by themselves. I learnt a lot about every aspect of the eco house and the sustainable living in the beautiful area of the Blue Mountains!… read more
