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Bedrooms Homewares Kids Rooms

Organic bedding kids will love: meet Wriggly Toes!

Sponsored by Wriggly Toes We’re lucky to have some amazing kids bed linen brands in Australia but while many of them look beautiful, how many can claim to be good for your health and the planet too? Wriggly Toes, started by parents Victor and Alex Cetinic, certainly can, with their ethically made organic linen for […]

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Recipes

Foodie Friday: Seared prawn and corn salad

Here’s a Mexican-spin on a summer-perfect salad that’s flavourful yet refreshing after the excesses of Christmas. From start to finish, this can be on the table in less than half an hour. Thanks to Williams Sonoma.  Ingredients For the corn and prawns: 2 ears fresh corn, husks and silks removed 2 tbsps olive oil 500g […]

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Jen's reno RENO ADDICT

Our “nanna house” reno update and what’s planned next?

It’s been more than 18 months since we bought our family home on Sydney’s upper north shore and, bathrooms aside, it’s largely unrecognisable from the dated home it once was. Lived in by the same lady for three decades, it was not exactly modern, but it was a great size with four bedrooms, and a […]

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Interiors Addict

2018’s most-clicked Interiors Addict blog posts

A couple of things shine through about our average reader: you’re renovators and you love a Hamptons/coastal aesthetic! Click on for some great advice and inspiration you might have missed last year… How long does a bathroom reno really take and why? An interiors addict’s guide to homewares shopping in Bali 3 ways to transform […]

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Interiors Addict

Interiors Addict’s Boxing Day sales picks!

It’s a GREAT time to shop in the sales this time of year with genuine discounts to be had. Below, we’ve rounded up some of our favourites, almost all online, to shop from the comfort of your sofa! Contents International Design, SupaCenta Moore Park, Sydney Sale on from Boxing day until 3 February 2019, store wide […]

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Design Homewares Shopping

Christmas gift ideas: 10 homewares under $99!

While the silly season is well and truly upon us there’s still plenty of time to get your Christmas gift list sorted. From gorgeous brass and pink salad servers to handmade ceramics, here’s 10 stylish options under $99 for the interiors addict in your life. R & R mini pillowcase: Made from 100% French flax linen, […]

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Design Expert Tips Interviews Styling

How to make a mood board + expert summer styling tips

We caught up with stylist, interior designer and television presenter Juliet Love recently for a chat about summer interior trends and how to tackle a mood board before embarking on a new styling project. Not only does a mood board help to define and refine ideas but it’s a great source for you to refer back to […]

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Design Designers Expert Tips Interviews

Rigg Design Prize 2018: Finalist tips & predictions!

Taking place every year at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), the Rigg Design Prize recognises the importance of contemporary design in Australia and this year sees interior design take centre stage. The first major presentation of interior design in the gallery’s history, the Rigg Design Prize 2018 sees ten leading Australian interior designers and decorators each […]

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Bathrooms Design Expert Tips Interviews

Big in bathrooms: bold colour, brass, concrete, mirrors

From concrete to brass and statement colour and mirrors, there’s a super luxe to feel to bathrooms at the minute and it’s something that Wesley Sinclair from Highgrove Bathrooms confirmed recently when he gave us the skinny on the hottest bathroom trends for summer 2019. “Changing seasons bring along new trends in design and this summer Highgrove […]

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Interiors Addict

Bonnie & Neil Sydney hotel room is a botanical dream

If the idea of fully immersing yourself in the enchanting, botanical world of Bonnie & Neil for a night appeals then perhaps a Sydney hotel stay is in order this summer. Located on the western side of the city centre (beside Darling Harbour), West Hotel Sydney (a subsidiary of Hilton) invited the incomparable homewares duo […]

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Expert Tips Outdoor & Exteriors Styling

Outdoor styling: A stylist’s top tips for summer

With the warmer weather already already upon us, no doubt many of you have been spending more time outdoors and, for many of us, that means relaxing or entertaining at home in an alfresco area. And with the line between indoor and outdoor spaces continuing to blur (thank you Aussie weather!) we had a chat […]

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DIY RENO ADDICT

Switch light fittings in seconds — without a sparky!

We all know lighting is not only functional, it’s essential for setting the style and mood of a room, but it’s also one of the hardest and most expensive things to change when renovating. Melbourne-based engineer and industrial designer Adam Cusick is changing all that with the launch of his new invention Snap Lighting which […]

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The Block

The Block 2018: Living room reveals

Last night’s room reveals were a fairly disappointing bunch (a bit of a theme this season it would seem!) with some moments of genius scattered throughout. I was surprised by how underwhelming most of them were to be honest but I also appreciate that filling such large spaces wouldn’t have been easy. These rooms are some […]

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Homewares

What’s launching at Decor + Design Melbourne next week?

I can’t wait to get to Melbourne next week and check out Decor + Design. Interiors Addict is thrilled to be official media partner for another year. There are some great names speaking at the always-popular International Seminar Series including celebrity designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard and trend forecaster Victoria Redshaw, as well as Aussies Megan Morton, […]

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Designers Interviews

SPOTLIGHT ON: Interior designer & TV star Shaynna Blaze

Where you studied and what: Diploma Interior Design & Drafting at Melbourne College of Decoration, RMIT. When you started your business and how: I started my first business when I was 23 as I started freelancing after my full-time job, then again in 1999 when I got back into design and doing art commissions. The best business […]

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Design Designers

Aussies top Decor + Design 18’s best speaker lineup yet

Back for its 15th year, Decor + Design hits Melbourne from July 19-to-22 and the guest speaking line-up looks absolutely superb. Megan Morton, David Flack, Greg Natale, James Treble, Jason Grant, Mim Fanning and Robyn Holt are just some of the Australian industry luminaries set to take the stage for the highly anticipated Australian House & […]

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Interiors Addict

Charity house furnished by Interiors Addict could be yours!

Sponsored by Henley At the weekend, Henley and Villawood Properties officially opened to the public to inspect the Good Friday Appeal charity auction home. It followed five months and 320,000 collective labour hours from over 400 tradies and suppliers.   It was a huge team effort by Henley, Villawood Properties and the generous trades and suppliers […]

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Designers House Tours

Our 10 favourite real homes of 2017

It’s officially December so we’re allowed to start curating the best of the year, right?! This year, we have been lucky enough to sticky beak inside some of the most gorgeous homes. From a houseboat afloat Sydney Harbour to a US$16 million Hamptons home; we’ve certainly not been disappointed! So I’ve undertaken the tricky task of […]