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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Now that all the hard work in the lounge room is done, it’s time for the fun bit – furnish and decorate! Just a reminder of what my lounge room currently looks like: It’s taken me a long time to work out how we want to use this space, and how I want it to feel. It’s tempting to make…
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A friend who has recently returned to Melbourne after living in Perth for five years told me that she’d love to pick my brain and find out about all the cute and quirky shops I love to visit, you know, the ones in out of the way places that you accidentally stumble across because you took a wrong turn. It…
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It’s always a good day when a parcel of printed goodness from Frankie Press arrives in my letterbox. Frankie’s house-loving interiors book – SPACES is back with Volume Three, and it’s full of beautiful, lived in homes and the stories about the people who live in them. Featuring homes and homes-away-from-home all around Australia – from inner-city Melbourne to sunny…
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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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I was recently invited to preview a unique collaboration between Etsy.com and The Cullen Hotel in Melbourne. Creative duo Marsha Golemac and Brooke 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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I ventured northside today to visit my sister who is due to have a baby girl in only a couple of weeks. She is super organised and has already finished decorating the nursery, has her bags packed and has even organised all the baby’s clothes into different sizes and styles. I on the other hand, was throwing things in a…
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