interior design

6 Affordable ways to Brighten Up Your Kitchen

6 Affordable ways to add Color to your Kitchen

Kitchens are often designed with functionality in mind. Workspace, storage and ease of cleaning are usually top of the list, but an element that’s often forgotten is personality. Here are some easy and affordable ways to add color to your kitchen. I love a bit of colour so when we renovated our kitchen I incorporated some bold design elements to…

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Home Tour My Poppet Kitchen

The Truth Behind Home Tours

I love flicking through the pages of glossy shelter mags and checking out home tours on sites like The Design Files and Apartment Therapy. I like to see how other people inhabit their homes, it says a lot about them, what they chose to surround themselves with. There is also a part of me that is a little voyeuristic, not…

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Etsy at the cullen

Etsy at the Cullen

I was recently invited to preview a unique collaboration between Etsy.com and The Cullen Hotel in Melbourne. Creative duo M​arsha Golemac and B​rooke Holm were tasked with a world­ first, to takeover and transform a hotel room and create Etsy at the Cullen. With hand­picked homewares from Australia’s burgeoning Etsy community of makers, and some savvy non-permanent interior design solutions…

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