Interior design and styling, homewares, furniture, home appliances and the personalities behind them
After a recent voyage to IKEA, I arrived home with big plans to create a DIY gallery wall only to realise that the frames I had purchased were literally all wrong! The sizes were slightly too big or small. The colours of the frames didn’t quite work with the artworks. My skills at cutting the mat boards were naught (FYI: they’re crooked and it’s …
This deliciously easy pudding/cake was developed for Williams Sonoma by the super-talented baker Sally Boyle of Simmer and Boyle. Pudding ingredients 250g dates, stoned and chopped 1.5 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda zest and juice of 1 orange 90g unsalted butter 120g caster sugar 110g brown sugar 3 large eggs 250g self-raising …
By Mark Menegatti The Block can make a tradie's job look easy by smashing out big jobs in just a week. As a builder with 14 years’ experience, I can vouch that a real tradie's life means starting before dawn and coming home after dark without any TV cameras around. On Sunday, we saw Spence from apartment 1, who is a full-time building …
Pottery Barn's new season collection is all about chic, Parisian-inspired interiors and I could not be more obsessed! I have always admired romantic, European decorating but never seemed to understand how to incorporate this style into my own home. It always seemed to feel too soft and girl-ish, and not particularly liveable. But Pottery Barn's …
This home first came to my attention when it was a finalist in this year’s Dulux Colour Awards. Given the rainbow palette within, it’s easy to see why the house was given a nod in the paint brand’s annual celebration of clever colour use. Located in the Melbourne suburb of Balwyn North, this original 1960’s home sits on a large, leafy block and was …
Located in Roseville, on Sydney’s upper north shore, this stylish home was designed by Clare Le Roy of The Little Design Corner for her young family of five, with particular provision for her disabled son. “Our middle son is profoundly disabled and in a wheelchair so we needed a flat block so he could access the whole house. I wanted to do a …
The idea of prefabricated building conjures a pretty bad picture. For me, I think of the demountable classrooms that comprised much of my primary school but the prefab building process has come a long way since then. Not only does contemporary prefabricated building offer much speedier build times but it’s often cheaper than a traditional build and …
We’ve long been fans of Melbourne digital artist Kimmy Hogan. A graphic designer by trade, she spent many months developing a technique that combines her love of botanicals and oil painting with a digital brush. ‘Gathered’ is her latest collection and it was inspired by the look and feel of flowers freshly picked. “I wanted this collection …
Three years in the making, Greg Natale has just released his debut collection of luxury accessories and decorative objets and while the range is on the pricey side, it is absolutely gorgeous. Fashioned by hand, the pieces have that luxe, masculine feel that we’ve come to associate with Greg and are divided into three categories – stone (there’s …
In the race to create Australia's most dazzling hotel interior, the baton was passed recently to a new boutique establishment in Sydney’s Surry Hills, the Little Albion Guest House. Formerly a convent and boarding house, the three level space was dark, dilapidated and fronted onto one of Sydney’s dodgier streets but all that is a distant memory …
