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Win tickets to Better Homes & Gardens Live Melbourne

Better Homes and Gardens Live returns to Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from 14 to 16 October, and we have 10 pairs of tickets to give away!

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Step into the ultimate day of inspiration and shopping whilst picking up some bargains, viewing all the latest products and meeting the stars of Australia’s number one lifestyle program. Better Homes and Gardens (along with its magazine team) will bring its content live and interactive to fans all under one roof.

Whether you are looking for design ideas for your home, growing tips for your garden or simply want to shop until you drop, then the show is the perfect place to spend your day. Host Johanna Griggs, alongside the presenters of Better Homes and Gardens, will deliver presentations and workshops offering tips and tricks for every aspect of your home.

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Fast Ed and Joh Griggs

New this year, the Marketplace is a vibrant hub allowing fans to shop for unique wares varying from stunning trinkets, unique bags to custom made jewellery. A Food Truck Arena will feed hungry stomachs an array of gourmet and street style food, plus the Presenters’ BBQ offers fans a chance to catch up with the cast in person as they cook up a free barbecue.

Find out more and buy tickets.

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For your chance to win a pair of tickets, comment below telling us why you’d love to attend by midnight on 7 October 2016.

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House Rules RENO ADDICT

NSW father daughter team win the 2015 House Rules grand final

They were the underdogs from the start, but last night, Sydney’s Steve and Tiana Falzon took home the big win; becoming mortgage free after defeating Queensland in an epic grand final clash.

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Steve and Tiana

Steve, 47, competed alongside his daughter Tiana, 26, who entered the show to give thanks to her dad who struggled following the death of her mum when she was only seven. Taking home one of television’s biggest prizes – his entire $250,000 mortgage wiped clean – Steve battled to contain his emotions after the result was announced live by host Johanna Griggs. “This is a dream come true,” said Steve. “I’m so overwhelmed. It’s been a dream of mine for so long to pay this house off.”

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Steve paid tribute to his daughter, who sustained a sprained ankle during the dying hours of the final renovation. Despite the injury, she rose to her feet determined to finish. “There’s no way I could have done this without Tiana. I’m so glad we’ve shared this experience together.”

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QLD’s garage designed by Steve and Tiana

The grand finalists were given one last renovation challenge – to transform each other’s garage into an entertainer’s paradise. It was incredibly close with NSW edging ahead of Queensland, 19 points to 17. The Sydney duo transformed Ben and Danielle’s dull Brisbane garage into a Ralph Lauren inspired oasis. “I’m so impressed that a team that struggled at the beginning have come to deliver a room like this,” said judge Wendy Moore. “For the grand final, you couldn’t ask for more.”

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NSW’s garage designed by Ben and Danielle

Queensland also impressed, turning Steve’s garage into a retro wonderland which oozed ‘Fonzie cool’ complete with a jukebox, bar and Cadillac couch. “This is excellent work; so deserving to be in the grand final,” said judge Joe Snell.

After the judges’ scores were combined with the public vote, NSW were declared the winners. Runners-up Ben Edgeworth, 33, and Danielle Russell, 31, don’t walk away empty-handed after having their entire house, garden, exterior and garage completely renovated.

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Ben and Danielle

Team NSW won the prize after a gruelling competition which saw six house interiors, four garden/exteriors, a holiday house and a special charity home completely transformed. So in my mind, I think it’s now time for a well deserved rest. Great job guys!

For more on House Rules.

Photography by Channel 7

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House Rules RENO ADDICT

House Rules’ grand finalists revealed after their most heart-warming reno yet

In their hardest but most heart-warming challenge yet, the final three transformed a house for four kids and their carer into a place to call home. Given a brief to make the home warm and cosy with robust easy-care furniture, the teams exceeded judges’ expectations and that of the home’s caretakers, Care South, who for over 20 years have been working with vulnerable children, youth and families.

Grand finalists Ben & Danielle (QLD) and Steve & Tiana (NSW)
Grand finalists Ben and Danielle (QLD) and Steve and Tiana (NSW)

Tackling their biggest zones ever NSW were the first team through to the grand final after scoring 17 points. Queensland scored 16, edging out Victoria by only two points to claim the second spot.

So what did judges Wendy Moore and Joe Snell think?

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After: NSW shower room

Team NSW had the largest zone with six rooms in total including the kitchen, study nook, shower room and sitting room. From VJ boards in the sitting room and hall, to rustic lighting choices for the kitchen, the pair hit all the house rules.

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After: NSW kitchen

“You guys have come a long way,” said Joe. “You have done some really lovely and well-designed spaces.”

Ben and Danielle – 16/20

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After: QLD lounge

The Queensland zone included the lounge room, entry and carer’s residence.

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After: QLD carer’s residence

“You absolutely transformed your zone and made this home a much more welcoming one,” said Wendy. “But you didn’t seem to be firing on all cylinders in your areas of strength, colour and styling.”

Bronik and Corrine — 14/20

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Victoria took a risk with their design choices this week but sadly missed the mark and were sent home. The corrugated iron roof in the bathroom and their slate tile feature wall in the dining room let them down.

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“Your feature statements got the better of you,” said Joe. “You lost sight of the basics and also the house rules.”

Now only two teams remain, with Sydney father and daughter duo Steve and Tiana taking on Brisbane newlyweds Ben and Danielle in the 2015 House Rules grand final. The winner will be announced by host Johanna Griggs this Monday night (7:30pm), when the teams take on one last renovation challenge. The judges’ scores will be combined with a public vote to determine the winner.

For more on House Rules.

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Homewares Outdoor & Exteriors

Garden hoses have suddenly become cool!

I’ll be honest, in my life I have put zero thought into garden hoses. Back when I lived at home the garden was well and truly my parents’ domain and now, well I don’t even have a garden, so they’re hardly at the top of my list of fun topics of conversation or new purchases. That is, until new Australian brand Lepaar launched their luxury garden hose collection last month.

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Passionate about Australian manufacturing, sustainable materials and exceptional design and craftsmanship, the Gardenlust Hose Collection partners agricultural grade, UV protected material and high tensile reinforced yarn with Pantone’s colours of the moment. “Our hose-relationships have always been volatile,” explains Lepaar co-founder Christo Everingham. “So one day, when we were once again drenched in water after our hose had detached from the sprinkler and shimmy-ed around the garden like a mad green snake spouting water, we suddenly saw the light: let’s design hoses!”

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So Christo and his wife Johanna did just that. Designing their dream hose, the end result is beautiful, functional and high-quality. Coming in three colours: Ivory, Lavender and Slate (and more to be added soon), the hoses have a solid brass easy spray nozzle and a handmade solid brass wall hook.

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The Gardenlust Hose Collection is available through Lepaar’s website and select stockists in Australia and overseas. Prices start from $180.

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House Rules returns next week!

Australia’s biggest renovation show is back, with six new teams from around Australia putting their homes on the line and their skills to the test, as they battle it out to become mortgage free!

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Together, they’ll travel the country, hand over the keys to their homes and leave their opposition to transform every room of their house in just seven days! One by one the teams will be eliminated before two couples face-off in the grand final for a chance to win the most coveted prize on Australian TV… their entire mortgage completely paid off!

The familiar House Rules faces will be back, with Johanna Griggs hosting the show and designer Carolyn Burns-McCrave supervising the teams. The expert judges – award-winning architect and Reno Addict resident expert Joe Snell and Home Beautiful magazine editor Wendy Moore – will also return.

House Rules premieres Tuesday 5 May at 7.30pm on Channel 7. For more information.

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House Rules 2015 sneak peek video

House Rules judge and Reno Addict resident expert, architect Joe Snell

Hoorah for another home show about to start! I have to admit I only got into House Rules at the end of the last series. I’d decided I just didn’t have enough TV time left to watch it as well as The Block, and Grand Designs and Selling Houses Australia… and all the others!

But I actually really love the concept and think it’s a fresh take on the reality renovation genre. I mean, what better prize in this day and age than having your mortgage paid off?! And I love the emotions involved because the contestants own homes are the ones being made over. It adds a whole extra element to reveal time!

House Rules judge and Reno Addict resident expert, architect Joe Snell
House Rules judge and Reno Addict resident expert, architect Joe Snell. Photo by Jacqui Turk

[contextly_sidebar id=”dYJg2Wj3UkrijqRFzB4tyMIlWTuQssGE”]I’m also a big fan of host Johanna Griggs. she’s just so down to earth and real! I think I’d like to have a coffee and a chat with Joh! And then there’s architect Joe Snell, one of the resident experts on our sister site, Reno Addict. He is so super passionate about good design, it’s contagious, and it’s great to see his TV career taking off.

Hope you enjoy the series preview video above.

We look forward to bringing you more about the Channel 7 show, due to start again soon, in the coming weeks.

Are you a House Rules fan? Which is your favourite reality TV show?

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Furniture

Temple & Webster’s Take a Seat for Legacy raises $20,000

In just seven days, Temple & Webster raised $20,000 for iconic Australian charity Legacy following the outstanding success of their innovative Take a Seat for Legacy campaign.

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Now in its second year, the initiative saw 36 Bentwood chairs decorated, adorned and in some cases completely reimagined into sculptural art pieces by Australian personalities from the worlds of television, radio, sport, fashion, design and interiors.

Created by the likes of Paul Hogan, Johanna Griggs, Melissa Doyle, Tim Cahill, John Sutton, Magdalena Roze, Donna Hay, Megan Morton and Vince Frost, a seven-day online sale provided an opportunity to purchase these one-of-a-kind creations at auction.

It raised significantly more funds than last year, with the highest contribution coming from the chair created by Better Homes & Gardens presenter Johanna Griggs, whose lovingly wool-wrapped chair sold for $2,975.

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Take a Seat for Legacy: design, charity and celebrities

After the success of last year’s Take a Seat for Legacy initiative, Temple & Webster are back with round two, asking 40 Australian personalities from the worlds of television, radio, sport, fashion, design and interiors, to design and create original chairs.

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Some of last year’s creations

Going on display to the public at The Grounds of Alexandria on the weekend of the 24-to-26 October, visitors will get the chance to view a range of unique and stunning chairs, conceived and created by people such as Tim Cahill, Paul Hogan, Johanna Griggs, Melissa Doyle, Rebecca Judd, John Sutton, Todd McKenney, Magdalena Roze, Donna Hay, Sibella Court, Vince Frost, The Grounds favourite Kevin Bacon (he pig!) and many more.

Devised by Temple & Webster, Take A Seat aims to raise awareness and provide vital funds to support the families of Australian Defence Force personnel. For those wanting to take their favourite creation home with them, the chairs will also be available to purchase on the Temple & Webster website. The sale will run from 7pm on Wednesday 22 October until 11pm Thursday 30 October, with 100% of proceeds going to Legacy.

We absolutely love this initiative. Stunning one-off chairs and money raised for a fantastic and important charity. Get involved!

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Host Johanna Griggs tells us what to expect from this series of House Rules and why she’d never be a contestant!

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The gaping hole that The Block left in my life has officially been filled, with last night seeing the premiere of the second series of House Rules.

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The house of NSW contestants Candy and Ryan

The episode got straight into the renovations, with the first house on the chopping block belonging to NSW couple Candy and Ryan.

“You can expect a lot of chaos in this first house,” host Johanna Griggs tells Interiors Addict. “It was funny but I found when shooting the contestants kept saying: ‘I can’t believe this is a week, we thought it was a TV week!’ They were really under the pump, even the ones with trade backgrounds; they just found it so overwhelming. It’s so far from their comfort zones.”

Straight up, there are a few differences in the show’s format compared to last year’s series, with Johanna saying they needed to throw a few curveballs, because all the teams had watched the first series: “They just arrived a bit savvier this year, so we had to mix it up a bit. I think the biggest change you’ll see will be at judging time, as this series we have the judges in the studio. We just found last year that because the contestants never saw them face-to-face, it was very easy for them to dismiss the judges’ comments. But this time round they’re standing two metres away and that adds a really interesting dimension.”

Host Joh Griggs
Host Joh Griggs

Johanna in her own right is quite the renovation expert, running a construction company with builder husband Todd Huggins, and of course hosting Better Homes and Gardens, but she still doesn’t fancy herself as a House Rules contestant. “I think it’s a brilliant concept and I love that no one goes home a loser but I could not do it,” she says. “My husband and I would kill each other on camera! We wouldn’t make the 7.30pm time slot, we wouldn’t be allowed, our language would deteriorate too quickly!”

Even though Johanna and her husband work well together in the real world, she is quick to say that the show is nothing like a traditional construction site: “It’s not a normal building site, it’s everything exaggerated a thousand fold. You’re condensing a three-to-six month renovation into one. You’ve got 50 tradies on site, five other teams, you’ve got cameras in your face and you have one week where you have to get all your supplies, all your furnishings, everything delivered and all your tradies organised.”

With the next episode on tonight at 8pm, I’m looking forward to seeing what happens next. I’ve already found a favourite in Adam. That man is just so smiley, but only time will tell if he and partner Lisa are a good prediction for winners.

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New series of House Rules starts tonight on 7

For those suffering from The Block withdrawals, fear not. The second series of last year’s hit reality renovating show House Rules, starts tonight (Wednesday 30 April) on 7.

Architect and House Rules judge Joe Snell
Architect and House Rules judge Joe Snell

Get ready to see six new teams from around Australia go on a ride of a lifetime, putting their homes on the line and skills to the test, as they battle it out to become mortgage free. Together, they’ll travel the country, hand over the keys to their homes and leave their competition rivals to transform every room in their house.

With host Johanna Griggs at the helm again this year, six brave teams will gamble with the most important possession in their lives. Designer Carolyn Burns-McCrave and build supervisor Chester Drife will be overseeing the teams, who have just a week to completely transform each home. Guided by just five House Rules, the teams will each be given a designated zone in the house to work on and they must draw on all their creative talents, determination and strategy to achieve the most stunning transformations.

Two expert judges – architect Joe Snell and Home Beautiful magazine editor Wendy Moore – will score each team’s renovation. But the last word will go to the homeowners. Without knowing who was responsible for each zone, they will score them all. Will they love or loathe what they see?

Scores will be revealed at Homebase, where eliminations will also take place. And in the final, the last two teams will face off for the chance to walk away with their entire mortgage paid off in full.

I only got into the show at the end of the last series but wish I’d watched more of it as I found the concept really interesting. Will you be watching?

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Better Homes & Gardens LIVE this weekend

Better Homes & Gardens LIVE will be at Melbourne Showgrounds from today (Friday 3) until Sunday 5 May. Whether you are a renovator, foodie, DIY or craft lover, it’s the place to go for all the latest products, advice and tips for your home. Get inspired with live demonstrations and workshops from your favourite Better Homes and Gardens experts and shop for the latest gadgets and technology from more than 250 exhibitors at the one-stop home and garden product showcase.

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Win tickets to Better Homes & Gardens LIVE in Melbourne

Enjoy a great family day out at Better Homes and Gardens LIVE from 24 – 26 February 2012 at the Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton, Melbourne.

The event brings to life the pages of Australia’s favourite magazine, providing homemakers, DIY enthusiasts, keen gardeners and aspiring cooks with inspiring new ideas for their home and garden.

Don’t miss live stage shows from your favourite TV presenters, inspiring ideas, workshops and products for you to try and sensational shopping from over 250 exhibitors. With plenty of entertainment for the children, this is a day out for the whole family.

All your favourite Better Homes and Gardens TV experts will be there. Graham Ross, Tara Dennis, ‘Fast’ Ed, Karen Martini, Jason Hodges, Rob Palmer and Johanna Griggs will take to the stage to share their creative and original ideas to help you make yours a better home and garden.

Interiors Addict has 10 double passes to give away to the first 10 people to email [email protected] with ‘BHG LIVE’ in the subject heading.

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If you’re not lucky enough to win, purchase a double ticket (admits 2) for just $20 – that’s 50% off the door price! To take advantage of this offer, simply click here and enter the code BHGLIVE18. But hurry, the offer ends at 5pm on 10 February.