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Exclusive: Inside Bay & Fyfe founder Frith Hucks’ colourful Sydney home

Bay & Fyfe is the new lifestyle brand producing covetable scarves featuring art by former Sneaky Sound System MC, Daimon Downey. The stunning silk scarves from the first Pastel Zoo collection have been seen all over town (on people and on walls) and they’ve just released a second. Founder Frith Hucks tells Interiors Addict about making art accessible and gives […]

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Yahoo! Homes launches

Content from various Pacific Magazines titles is being collated into a new Homes destination, the newest section of the Yahoo!7 Network, launched yesterday. Articles from Better Homes and Gardens, Home Beautiful, Diabetic Living, Your Garden and Better Basics will all be under one roof at Homes, which also has features to help consumers find inspiration and make […]

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Exclusive: Join super stylist Mr Jason Grant for a VIP shopping tour of Sydney!

Want to spend the day with one of Sydney’s best stylists? Go along to Mr Jason Grant’s favourite shops with him, learn his styling secrets, pick his brains, have lunch and coffee and get driven around in a Mini! Not to mention plenty of FUN! The perfect day out for a wannabe stylist or just […]

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New Brunswick bar takes design cues from American west coast Art Deco

I love you, Sydney, but Melbourne has better bars. Stat. Check out the interior of this one, opening on Friday in Brunswick. Amelia Shaw is upstairs at the Retreat Hotel and is named after the hotel’s first 1842 female licensee. The bar continues in this spirited tradition but takes its design cues from a little […]

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New Vintage by Tahn Scoon

I recently received this beautiful book from its author, Tahn Scoon. To be honest, my first thought was “nice but hmm… not really my thing,” but on closer inspection, it really is. When I see the word vintage I sometimes worry this actually means hipster and that’s not me, plus I live in a pretty […]

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What Nest Designs’ Emma is loving right now

Emma Blomfield runs Nest Designs, providing affordable interior styling services both in person and via the wonders of the world wide web, wherever you are in Australia. Right now she’s loving…

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Top 10 interior styling essentials

While I’m no stylist, I’ve spent enough time around the country’s best, read enough books and magazines and rearranged my own furniture and accessories enough times to know a thing or two about the little things which can make a big difference to your home. Everyone needs a couch, a coffee table, a TV, some […]

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Masters launches Australia’s biggest online home improvement store

Masters is attempting to revolutionise home improvement with the launch of masters.com.au, offering a huge range of DIY products for home delivery at the click of a mouse. With more than 10,000 products available to buy at the same low prices you find in store, it means customers right across the country can take advantage of […]

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Anyone have some advice for this reader?

I receieved this request for interiors help from a reader today. Thought I’d throw it open to all you experts out there! Feel free to comment below. Thanks! “Hi, I’ve recently painted our whole 2 bedroom flat in a dove grey colour with white trims, I’m a bit scared it will look too bland and […]

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Sunday snippets: the best of the week in interiors

I met the legendary Brisbane interior designer Anna Spiro for the first time at the Sydney launch of her divine wallpaper range for Porter’s Paints. She was lovely. And I’ve not met anyone yet who doesn’t love the paper! It was also really nice to catch up with lovely fellow blogger Viv from ish and […]

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What are your favourite interiors books?

I have a problem. Not only am I a bit of a compulsive cushion buyer, I also acquire a LOT of interiors and decor books and it doesn’t matter how many I have or how many colour-coded piles there are around the place, there’s always at least three more on my must-read list! One of […]

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Mr Jason Grant wants YOUR help!

Listen up, interiors addicts! Our friend Mr Jason Grant, stylist extraordinaire, wants to know which kind of colours you’d like to see in his next paint collection for Murobond. His previous three collections have been hugely popular and captured the colour trends of the moment. You could be a part of helping him shape the […]

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Designers Interviews

The Kelly Hoppen interview

OK addicts, indulge me in this pinch myself moment. I have finally done it! An interview with perhaps THE best known female interior designer internationally, Kelly Hoppen MBE no less. Spending the first 26 years of my life in the UK, she was one of the first ‘celebrity’ interior designers I became aware of and […]

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Interiors porn with Greg Natale

I’m a huge fan of Greg Natale‘s work, you probably all know that by now. And I’ve interviewed Greg and know him well, but I was still keen to attend his session at Coco Republic Design School, especially when I heard he’d be sharing photos of never-before-seen projects. What a treat. And I wasn’t disappointed. Friday […]

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Jason Grant signs book deal with Hardie Grant

Hooray! Although he’s keeping the details very close to his chest, our good friend Mr Jason Grant has finally announced he has a book deal with Hardie Grant. He’s been busy shooting photographs for the last few weeks (months probably) and I’ve seen for myself just how much he has been putting into this. Set […]

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Artist Andrew O’Brien on the relationship between art and interiors

Andrew O’Brien left a comfortable corporate career to finally become a full-time artist and to say his brave decision has paid off would be an understatement. You may have admired his work on the cover of the current Real Living magazine or in the background of pictures of the Danish Royal visit to furniture store […]

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Learn interior styling from Mr Jason Grant

Mr Jason Grant is the latest interiors expert to be snapped up by Coco Republic Design School to host some design sessions. The former Real Living style director, who is now an in-demand stylist across the top interiors magazines and a paint creator for Murobond, will run two sessions in July. If you want to […]

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Fun family home full of upcycled treasures

This fun, family home in the Canberra suburbs belongs to Lisa Barrett, husband Chris, sons Dylan and Hugo and dog Brindi. In her spare time the busy mum creates one-of-a-kind reupholstered chairs to sell on Etsy and at markets.