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An interiors addict’s dream event, with Darren Palmer, Megan Morton and Baz Du Bois

I just had to tell you about this event, Design for Life, which any interiors addict will surely love, but which is also raising funds for a great charity, Mummy’s Wish, which offers practical support to Australian mums and their families when they’re diagnosed with cancer. As someone who lost my mum to cancer when […]

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Designers

Kobe Johns of designEX talks about this month’s event and the design trends for 2015

This year will mark Kobe Johns’ third as exhibition manager at designEX, Australia’s original design and architecture event. And with a new home and 10,000 industry professionals set to attend, Kobe promises this year’s event will be the biggest and best yet. “Being at Sydney Exhibition Centre at Glebe Island, which is actually a peninsular, […]

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Homewares Styling

Meet Sibella Court, Megan Morton and more at West Elm event this Saturday

Meet interiors heavyweights Sibella Court, Megan Morton, Robyn Holt, Cameron Kimber and Marco Meneguzzi and learn their secrets to seasonal styling and entertaining at a free event in Bondi Junction this Saturday 29 March.  You can ask your favourite expert stylemakers for their secrets to creating the perfect Easter table or seasonal vignette! The top Australian […]

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Designers Styling The Block

VIDEO: Behind the scenes at an Interiors Addict reader event

Last week we held a 7 Vignettes event for 100 readers in partnership with BoConcept Sydney. We thought you might like to see how much fun we had! Interior designer and The Block judge Darren Palmer was our guest of honour and I interviewed him on stage, with readers given the chance to ask questions. […]

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Styling The Block

Photos: Friday night’s Sydney 7 vignettes event

We had another wonderful reader event with The Block’s Darren Palmer in Sydney on Friday, at BoConcept in Crows Nest. A crowd of more than 100 people came along to listen to me interviewing Darren and sharing his insider take on The Block as well as insight on how he got to be where he […]

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Styling The Block

Photos: Interiors Addict Melbourne event with Darren Palmer

As we gear up for our next event in Sydney on Friday, I thought I’d share some pictures from this month’s hugely successful event with Darren Palmer at Haymes Paint’s gorgeous new Southbank showroom in Melbourne. It was an absolutely packed house with readers and keen vignetters queuing to get in! I enjoyed interviewing Block […]

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Interiors Addict

The 7 Vignettes Melbourne event

I had a great time at my first Melbourne event with Haymes Paint on Thursday night. Darren Palmer was a fantastic guest of honour and I loved being able to surprise attendees with a visit from The Block twins Alisa & Lysandra. The Sydney event on 21 February is sold out but you can get […]

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Interiors Addict

Designer Chicks present an event all about colour

Makeover shows make design and colour look so easy, but as those of us who have spent hours staring at paint cards can attest, unfortunately it’s not that easy. However, Designer Chicks are attempting to change this, with the Sydney-based group of design professionals holding an event all about colour. Entitled DC Code: 50 Shades of […]

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The Block

Two reader events in Melbourne and Sydney with The Block’s Darren Palmer

I’m delighted to announce two free reader events in Melbourne (our first!) and Sydney next month with guest of honour, The Block judge and interior designer Darren Palmer. The 7 Vignettes evening events will be open to more than 100 readers in each state, thanks to Interiors Addict’s sponsors Haymes Paint (in Melbourne) and BoConcept […]

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Interiors Addict

Photos: The first 7 Vignettes event with BoConcept & Belle

The first ever Interiors Addict reader event was a great success on Friday night with a huge turnout of around 150 people and a fun evening had by all at BoConcept’s Crows Nest showroom in Sydney. Readers even flew in from Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria specially so as not to miss out and […]

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Interiors Addict

Top event planning tips from the professionals

Creating events that wow people involves many of the same skills involved in creating interiors that do the same. Whether you’re planning a kids’ birthday party or your own wedding, we asked Hilary Bellew, Zoe Jackson and Stephanie Hugan of Melbourne’s company The Design Depot, to share their insider secrets. We hope you pick up […]

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Interiors Addict

Zanui first birthday event with Shaynna Blaze

Yesterday I attended the first birthday celebration event for online furniture store Zanui in Sydney, where Shaynna Blaze was special guest. It really doesn’t seem a whole 12 months since I was at Zanui’s launch event! The vast warehouse-style space of Simmer on the Bay in Sydney was decked out in products available to buy […]

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Interiors Addict

Learn event styling from Belle’s Steve Cordony

Not only is Steve Cordony a top magazine stylist and interior design editor for Belle, he also styles some of Sydney’s hottest parties and launches. Check out this feast for the eyes… I first met Steve at an event he styled for Georg Jensen at Corporate Culture and it was breathtaking. He really is one […]

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Interiors Addict

Last night’s sustainable design principals event

I was delighted to be special guest last night at a Sustainable Design Principals event organised by Emine Mehmet at Living Tiles, Rozelle. I really enjoyed the keynote speech by Mark Curzon of Architectus, who, alongside Ingenhoven Architects, designed the six green star building 1 Bligh Street in Circular Quay. It is a fascinating and impressive […]

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Interiors Addict

Free sustainable design principals event

I’m delighted to be special guest at an upcoming industry event on sustainable design principals. If you’d like to learn about environmentally responsible design from the architect behind the Six Green Star rated 1 Bligh Street building in Sydney’s CBD, then come along and join us at this free seminar.

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Interiors Addict

Just announced: a superstar interiors event not to be missed!

An exclusive new event has just this minute been added to the lineup for decoration + design and I’d advise you book a ticket, fast! International guest Martyn Lawrence Bullard, designer to the stars and a celebrity in his own right on the Million Dollar Decorators show, will join a panel alongside Australian design talent Thomas […]

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Interviews

Jane Frosh, styling events with personality

Jane Frosh has worked as an event producer for more the a decade but it’s the styling aspect of events that really gets her excited and it’s led her into interior styling work too. When you think event styling you might think dodgy chair covers and centrepieces, things that make Jane shudder. “I style an […]

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Interiors Addict Shopping

Freedom open new Hobart store & there’s fun & offers all weekend!

Freedom today held a grand opening of their new Hobart store with an official ribbon cutting by CEO Blaine Callard, together with head of retail Stuart Cole. The 1842 sqm location will showcase Freedom’s furniture and homewares collection with a focus on Australian design and style.  For the duration of the grand opening weekend (today […]