Active Truth founder Nadia Tucker’s sports-mad family home
Running athletics wear company Active Truth is the perfect fit for Nadia Tucker, who is surrounded by a home of sports-crazed boys.
Scattered around the Tucker family’s home in Brisbane are all manner of balls: football, rugby, netball, golf and cricket.
It makes sense that Nadia Tucker, co-founder of women’s athletic wear company Active Truth, would have a family of sporty boys.
Because of this Ms Tucker and her husband James had to make sure they had a sturdy home, settling on their large, white, 1930s-era Queenslander at Kedron, in the city’s north.
The five-bedroom home has two studies which proved helpful through the early stages of the pandemic.
Although it offers a lot of yard to let the couple’s sons Hamish, 10, and Lachlan, 8, run around, the property also overlooks a large park connected to the Kedron Brook recreation walkway which was a godsend through several lockdowns over the past 18 months.
Now that everything is “the new normal”, both kids are back into cricket and rugby, the latter of which Mr Tucker coaches and umpires.
“My days are spent on the side of a rugby pitch and cricket oval these days,” Ms Tucker laughs.
“I don’t mind though, I am a sports fan. The whole house is just sport, my kids don’t have toys. The neighbours hate it in summer because the boys are outside at five o’clock in the morning hitting a ball – it’s just boom, boom, boom.”
The hub of the home is the large dining table passed down as a family heirloom. Originally surrounded by 10 chairs, six remain as the rest need to go in for repair after years of heavy use.
The rest of the home is styled with dark furnishings in keeping with traditional elements and trims of the Queenslander. Among the standout features that made Ms Tucker fall in love with the property were the detailed ceiling roses.
Much of the colourful art around the home is by family friend and Victorian artist Grotti Lotti, alongside pieces by Ms Tucker’s aunt.
Originally from Hamilton in the southern Grampians, the couple relocated to Brisbane in their early 30s when they decided to settle down and raise a family.
Having children not only brought the couple to Brisbane but started Ms Tucker’s activewear brand. After giving birth to her youngest, the lawyer-turned-fashion designer found she was unable to find gym clothes that fitted her properly.
From there, she and friend Stevie Angel took the situation into their own hands.
After designing, producing and selling out of a box of 100 leggings, they continually upscaled the business, which turned over more than $10m this financial year and ships worldwide.
“The philosophy from day one has always been to show women in all of our sizes from size six to 26,” Ms Tucker says.
“All are represented in our marketing and one of the big things is that we don’t Photoshop. We say we’re obsessed with fit. We don’t just grade our sizing from an eight up like most brands do, we fit every single product. And that is what makes us unique, we actually genuinely care about everybody and I want a woman to put on a pair of our tights and feel confident.”
The Tuckers have owned their home for eight years and it is time for a makeover. The bathrooms were recently updated and the back yard is next, with plans to make it a tropical oasis the boys can grow into and have parties in when they’re teenagers. A kitchen update is also being imagined before taking the sleeping quarters downstairs at a later date.
However, the strip of concrete and grass down the side of the house for the clothesline will likely remain the cricket batting cage for some time yet.
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