Categories
Homewares Shopping

IKEA’s new DEKORERA collection invites a sophisticated home refresh

IKEA’s DEKORERA range is focused on the contrast and combination of shade and light, creating a multi-dimensional and sophisticated ambiance in your home. These pieces were designed to renew existing furniture items, and enhance and update living spaces without complex and expensive overhauls. This is achieved through eye-catching decorative items and textiles such as throws, […]

Categories
Furniture Homewares

Contents International Design: everything’s on sale!

Sponsored by Contents International Design Contents ID’s bi-annual mega sale, which started on Boxing Day, is still going until 2 February so your chance to grab a beautiful bargain for your home is by no means over. We thought we’d round up a few of our favourites. Absolutely everything is on sale including custom orders […]

Categories
Before & Afters Design Designers House Tours Interviews Real Renos RENO ADDICT

Sydney townhouse revamp: A fabulous before & after

Located in Glebe, in Sydney’s Inner West, this 12-year-old three-bedroom townhouse got a makeover recently, with interior designer Ioanna Lennox at the helm. “The design brief was for a warm, contemporary home with touches of colour and restrained vibrancy,” says Ioanna. The owners, a professional couple, also wanted to maximise the space and make everyday living […]

Categories
Designers Interviews

Mother’s Day: Stylists & designers reveal wish lists

With Mother’s Day on the doorstep, we caught up with some of our favourite mums in the interior space to find out what is on their wish lists this year. From Shaynna Blaze’s more serious request to Rachel Castle’s desire for a homemade card, these ideas might even spark inspiration for you in the lead-up […]

Categories
Art Interviews

Affordable art: Blacklist’s new limited edition prints

More artful and less graphic than we’ve come to expect from them, Blacklist return with a new limited edition collection of art prints this month titled Sometimes I Always Think Of You, with prices starting from a very affordable $120. “The collection represents the bond between nature and romance – the visible form of an […]

Categories
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 […]

Categories
Designers Interviews Styling

Five steps to creating a world-traveller interior vibe

While interior trends come and go there’s one aesthetic that has real legs. A mix of bohemian with a lot of eclecticism thrown in for good measure, the ‘world-traveller’ vibe is a much coveted aesthetic and it’s one that interior stylist Sarah Yarrow (formerly of Black Arrow) is well versed in. Here she shows us […]

Categories
Designers Homewares

Greg Natale’s luxe new accessories line goes on sale

Three years in the making, Greg Natale has just released his debut collection of luxury accessories and decorative objets and while the range is on the pricey side, it is absolutely gorgeous. Fashioned by hand, the pieces have that luxe, masculine feel that we’ve come to associate with Greg and are divided into three categories […]

Categories
Bathrooms Expert Tips RENO ADDICT

How to: Choose the perfect shower head

While not the most glamorous of topics, choosing the right shower head can have a significant bearing on just how glam you may feel when leaving the house. Take me for instance. I have the hair of three people meaning the shower head is possibly my chief concern in a bathroom. I’ve actually been known […]

Categories
Homewares Interviews

Jones & Co’s fun new hand-painted ceramics

With a new collection that spans myriad aesthetics (including ‘modern country’ and ‘urban jungalow’ to name just two) I wasn’t surprised to hear that the Jones & Co. team find inspiration literally anywhere when creating their feel-good wares. “We are inspired to create beautiful homewares that make the owner feel good. That’s our credo with all […]

Categories
Design Furniture

Retrospective: A look at 70 years of Aussie interiors

A stalwart of the magazine scene, Australian House & Garden marks its 70th anniversary this month which is no small achievement in the merciless publishing world. To mark the occasion, a celebratory edition hits stands on Monday (March 5), with the magazine opening the archives to reveal the way that Australian homes and gardens have […]

Categories
Bedrooms Homewares Shopping Styling

Luxe for less: Get this chic bedroom look for less than $1000!

Perhaps it’s because summer lasts for so long in Australia, but I’m pretty excited about autumn, and not just because of the weather. Cooler days are around the corner and that can only mean one thing – fabulous new styling opportunities will present themselves! Up for a challenge, I went on the hunt for a […]

Categories
Designers Furniture

Incy Interiors’ new kids range: so stylish you could steal it!

You know how there’s those kids labels – be it fashion, homewares or furniture – where you just need to have it all, except you’re an adult and alas, nothing will fit! Well Incy Interiors is that label for me. Except now… they do stuff for adults. Win! Their latest offering, Mod Collection, is supposedly […]

Categories
Bedrooms Designers Dining Furniture RENO ADDICT Styling

Our 8 favourite homes of 2017 so far

We have featured some amazing homes so far, from fabulous seaside havens, to modern Victorian era homes. Here are our top 8 picks from the first half of the year. Fenton & Fenton’s Melbourne marvel Melbourne is the interior design capital of Australia – which is perfect for me, as I have just moved down […]

Categories
Expert Tips Styling

10 of the best styling tips I’ve stolen from the professionals

Add a circle I know I got this one from a Megan Morton workshop some years ago, and it’s simple and obvious when you think about it (but also, it’s only easy when you know how, right?). So, this tip is basically, to try and add a round shape to a room to break up […]

Categories
Designers Homewares

Sumptuous organics: Greg Natale’s luxe new Designer Rugs range

A departure from his signature geometric style (though foreshadowed in one of the designs in his recent home collection), interior designer Greg Natale is back this month with a very luxurious collection for Designer Rugs. With a focus on organic pattern, and irregular motifs, The Composites Collection is entirely hand-made from plush Tibetan wool and lustrous bamboo. […]

Categories
Competitions Furniture

Win a gorgeous Scandi-industrial console from Curious Grace!

Australian furniture and homewares purveyor Curious Grace has just added the super stylish Industrial M furniture range to their line-up of highly covetable goods. “It is the marriage of Miss Scandi and Mr Industrial, the yin and yang of our favourite design types here in Australia. We call it Scandi Industrial and the label has a warehouse […]

Categories
Furniture Homewares

Luxe living at ALDI next week + how to style your special buys

Sponsored by ALDI Remember last year I styled a multimillion dollar home in Sydney’s Point Piper with ALDI Special Buys? The exciting news is some of these, which were previewed then, are going to be in the middle aisle of your local ALDI from next Wednesday 15 March! These pieces, including a coffee table, buffet […]