Interior design and styling, homewares, furniture, home appliances and the personalities behind them
With winter on the doorstep, and temperatures heading south, suddenly cocooning inside seems like a very attractive option. But just how can you transform your breezy summer living room to a comfy, wintry living space? We caught up with The Designory director Melissa Bonney, who certainly knows a thing or two about the topic. She shared the simple …
While this circa 1924 apartment is located on Sydney’s Manly Beach, I bet you wouldn’t be surprised to hear that it's home to a former New York City fashion editor. Clean lines, layers of texture, a monochrome palette and metallic accents combine to create a warm yet sophisticated home that shuns the coastal clichés. “The home suffered …
With its chic retro vibe and faded luxe colour scheme, Brisbane’s new Calile Hotel is arguably one of Australia’s most Instagrammed spaces - its stylish mix of brass, cork, concrete and sophisticated pastel hues proving difficult to resist for the design savvy. “The pool is the focal point of the hotel, with the rooms wrapping around its …
“The ambition for Cleveland Rooftop was to realise a garden that you happened to live in, rather than just an apartment surrounded by greenery,” says the project’s principal architect Adam Haddow, director of SJB. “This small piece of landscape in the sky is a reprieve from the bustling city lifestyle and adds to the network of inner-city green …
Launched recently by interior designer Tarmaine Hales, ‘Ask for 30’ lets you ask an interior design question for just $30 a pop! Amazing value, the online concept arose after the designer did some market research before launching her Canberra based business Harlo Design Studio recently. “Initially it started with me noticing a repeat pattern of …
“Ethical trading has always been at the forefront of my mind. I’m conscious of fast fashion and fast homewares and I always want to do whatever I can to support the maker and the weaver,” says Amy Eaton of the decision to establish her ethical rug label Oh Happy Home in 2017. Filled with gorgeous on-trend colours and designs, the brand also has an …
“With curtains for walls and a compact plan, our 4.5 metre radius shack was an attempt at building a vertical hard tent rather than a holiday home,” says Austin Maynard Architects’ Andrew Maynard of the firm’s latest, highly original project that is nestled in wild bush and rugged sand dunes on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula at St Andrew's …
Luxury developer GURNER has just revealed plans for its impending St Moritz development in Melbourne and if the first-look is anything to go by, it’s set to be rather phenomenal. With an average price point of roughly $3.5 million dollars, the St Kilda project is being designed by architect Fender Katsalidis (together with Koichi Takada Architects) …
The creative tools are never too far away for illustrator Kerrie Hess who let us take a peek inside her chic home office recently; an ultra-feminine, largely monochrome space that is punctuated with flashes of dusty pink. “I have been working from this office for about two and a half years and I honestly still don't think it's complete – it's …
Sponsored by iscd (International School of Colour and Design) Melbourne’s Jessica Farfan ran her own hair and beauty salon for 15 years before pursuing an interior design career at the age of 38, kickstarting it with a course at iscd while caring for her young family. “It was an unnerving decision to make, but it was worth taking the leap and …
