Home & Garden

3. Work with your interiors Fran Hale, of Peachy Green, says, ‘Choose beautiful sustainable materials that feel soft and luxurious underfoot and work with your interior surfaces and colours to bring cohesiveness and flow from indoors to out.’ Install or hang lighting so it looks pretty when viewed from anywhere in the home. 4. Make […]

Tanya Van Der Water, owner of Buckaroo Leatherworks, and her family love this 1980s timber house so much, they leased the Woonona property in Wollongong NSW twice, before eventually purchasing the home in 2021. By then, the interiors of the house were drab and dated, and in need of revitalising to suit a family of

It all started when fashion designer-turned-interior-designer Isabelle Bayly was renovating her apartment in Noosa a few years ago. ‘I had a very particular vision for the space, but I was unable to find any lights within our price range that suited the aesthetic,’ the Brisbane-based creative says. ‘A friend of ours had just started playing

Bunker Escapes founders Krystal and Neil Hipwell (director of Futureflip) dreamed about creating the ultimate Byron Bay escape for almost a decade before bringing it to life. ‘After we had our wedding here in Byron — over 11 years ago — we realised that there was a real lack of accommodation that catered for larger

If you’ve been reading TDF for a while, you’ll know Alistair Knox was one of Victoria’s most lauded building designers who rose to prominence across the mid-century era. His work is instantly recognisable and highly coveted, which is why Tia Paterson and her family were counting their lucky stars when they came across this Knox-designed

Florian Eatery might be famous for its picture-perfect breakfast plates, but second to the food, the duo behind the beloved cafe get the most compliments about their distinctive, homely interiors. Beyond its blue facade, Florian has a classic, slightly quirky and cosy charm, driven by an amalgamation of co-owners Dom Gattermayr and Rose Richards’ personal

The finalists for the 39th annual Dulux Colour Awards have been announced! An industry-leading panel has selected 88 projects from nearly 500 entries representing the best use of colour across commercial, public, hospitality, workplace, retail, installation, multi-residential, single-residential, and student projects in Australia and New Zealand. Themes and trends from this year’s finalists include coloured

Alistair Knox designed over 1000 buildings in Victoria between 1946 and 1986, including this family home in Croydon South. Originally built in the 1960s, the property is now home to Eva head of design Tom Shaw, Resonant founder Linda Raimondo and their two kids. The house is filled with the prolific designer’s ‘bush modernist’ flair, characterised

Architect Gina Ghioni designed and built this Byron Bay home in the early 1990s for less than $40,000 (just short of $90,000 when adjusting for inflation), but her investment in the property was far beyond monetary. The current owners, directors of Tanev Muir Architects Laura Muirhead and Peter Tanevski, purchased the home from Gina in 2023,

Woodend House strikes just the right balance between old and new. Originally serving as a hospital, the house is now the home of Pipkorn Kilpatrick interior designer Anna Skermer’s sister, Kate who lives there with her two kids, Harry and Maggie. To say the building has a storied past would be an understatement: ‘Many people