How these parents recreated Diagon Alley in their backyard

Bridget Slack Photography

What happens when two Harry Potter fans want to celebrate their daughter’s sixth birthday? They transform their backyard into Diagon Alley, of course.

The attention to detail is breathtaking, with faithful recreations of wizarding shops including Ollivanders, Flourish & Blotts and Madam Malkin’s.

Bridget Slack Photography

Bridget Slack Photography

Bridget Slack Photography

Katherine Pastas Nevitt and her husband, Matthew Scott Nevitt created the shopfronts with mostly free and recycled material.

Bridget Slack Photography

Bridget Slack Photography

Bridget Slack Photography

On her Facebook page Katherine Pastas Nevitt writes,

"Floors and walls are made from pallets, with the outside plywood hand painted to just look like stone. The windows are re-purposed china cabinets and wire reels, plus inside is all unwanted furniture saved from the landfill."

Bridget Slack Photography

The couple spent less than $200 on recreating the Harry Potter setting in their backyard.

Follow the family at www.nevittcreative.com.

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Rebecca Lowrey Boyd

Rebecca Lowrey Boyd is a former magazine editor and the founder of Wee Birdy, one of The Sunday Times’ Top 50 Blogs in the World. A design nerd and bird enthusiast, she can usually be found poring over Pinterest, knee-deep in Bunnings or sticky-beaking at modernist homes in Sydney’s bushburbia.

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