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Brosa: Stylish on-trend furniture at affordable prices

Sponsored by Brosa

Since launching six years ago, with a primarily Scandi-inspired aesthetic, Australian furniture company Brosa (it means ‘smile’ in Icelandic), has expanded its range to include mid-century, Hamptons, traditional, modern and coastal inspired pieces. While offering a great online furniture buying experience, it’s also a one-stop shop for stylish looks that won’t break the bank.

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Brosa’s ‘Slim chest of drawers’ (right) is one of its most popular designs

Occupying that mid-tier space, between IKEA and more high-end furniture brands, Brosa keeps costs down by owning its supply chain and doing most of its business online. While traditional furniture retailers have an array of middlemen standing between the production process and the customer, Brosa has streamlined the process, allowing it to deliver very accessible prices straight to you.

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The gorgeous ‘Greta’ sideboard (right) is a customer favourite

Promising a better way to buy furniture, Brosa has built a business around delivering a seamless browsing and buying experience, while providing practical advice throughout the purchasing journey. Customers can search by room or style (categories include mid-century, traditional, modern boho and Hamptons) and can order up to five free fabric samples. And to make purchasing even easier, the company has a dedicated interior design team that offers in-depth styling consultations, mood boards, floor plans and 3D visualisations.

The Brosa 'Christoph' sofa range
Brosa’s popular ‘Christoph’ sofa range

And while Brosa originally launched as an e-commerce brand, it has since opened two showrooms (in Sydney and Melbourne) in response to customer demand. But, rather than acting as traditional retail spaces, they’re staffed by qualified interior designers and stylists, offering all the advice above, in-person. The brand opened the showrooms, because many of its customers wanted to touch and feel its products. It has plans to open more showrooms soon.

Brosa 'Enzo' wide chest of drawers
Brosa’s popular ‘Enzo’ wide chest of drawers is pictured with one of its bed designs

Brosa also offers ‘white glove’ delivery with any purchase. With this service, the delivery team will move your item to the room of your choice, assemble the item, and take its packaging away for recycling. As furniture delivery goes, does it get much better than that?

Brosa 'Seta' modular sofa
Brosa ‘Seta’ modular sofa

To celebrate Brosa, we’re giving away two of its best-selling pieces; the Mia Coffee Table With Shelf, $379 and Mia Nest of Tables, $329.

Brosa 'Nesting' tables
Mia Nest of Tables

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Interiors Addict

Pinterest meets online directory with new Oneflare Scrapbooks

Sponsored by Oneflare 

Imagine your Pinterest ‘dream home’ board combined with an online directory of qualified professionals to make that dream a reality. No need to: Oneflare Scrapbooks exists!

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If you’re looking to build your dream home, or to renovate, a new, Australian-first design tool could help. Oneflare Scrapbooks helps you find and collect inspiring photos of your favourite home designs and ideas, then find the right people to do the work for you, all on one website. Clever, huh?

It’s essentially like a Pinterest for home design, but powered by almost 40,000 qualified Australian home service businesses (like interior designers and builders), all guaranteed by Oneflare. And just like finding a local service on Oneflare, it’s simple to use, and totally free.

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Interiors Addict

Take your entertaining outside

Sponsored by Freedom

As the first gusts of Summer roll in, we’re thinking of those memorable days al fresco. Enjoying breakfast on the balcony before work, Sundays where lunches with friends and family turn into early dinners, barbecues that are etched into your mind and the laughter belts through the neighbourhood. This summer, Freedom have a range of outdoor settings to suit any occasion. And there’s currently 25% off!

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The Brunch 3-piece and compact Moloko peacock chair

Australians really come to life in Summer, with seemingly endless entertaining opportunities. Backyards are buzzing with excitement, and people rush home after work to make the most of those extra hours of sunshine. It’s little wonder that our new outdoor collection is bursting with colour and personality, allowing you to update your outdoor area ahead of prime barbecue season!” said Lucie McCann, furniture buyer for Freedom.

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20% off new paintings from United Artworks: one week only

Sponsored by United Artworks

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Candy Floss and Composition (above) are the latest additions to United Artworks from artist Julie Robertson. Julie has joined United Artworks as a designer, providing limited edition pieces in this collection of handpainted pieces featuring vibrant colours and textures. The subject matters are purely abstract, but Julie also likes to reference popular animal themes as depicted in her dramatic composition Tigresse (below left).

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Top tips for decorating with colour for your mood

Sponsored by Freedom

Ever given much thought to the fact certain colours make you feel better, calmer or happier? You can apply colour psychology to your interiors to alter your mood. But it can be complicated when you live with other people who prefer different colours. Jacqui Manning, ‘the friendly psychologist,’ shares her top tips for finding a balance.

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The primary colours of red, blue and yellow relate to the body, mind, the emotions and the essential balance between these 3. The trick to getting your home right is to find the right balance for you and your personality.

Angela Wright made a major breakthrough in the late 70s in our understanding of colour psychology with her discoveries about how colour really works, looking at the patterns of colour and how they relate to our personality. She found that colour does influence our mood and behaviour and if we find the right colour combination for our personality and from within harmonious groups of colour, we will feel happier in our surroundings. So it really is worth the time and effort to get it right.