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The 7 vignettes in 7 days Instagram challenge with stylist Kara Rosenlund

I’m excited to announce Interiors Addict’s latest Instagram challenge: 7 Vignettes in 7 Days!

You can probably guess what this one’s all about, but I’ll spell it out anyway. Each day, from this Saturday, you must snap a vignette inspired by the corresponding word on the list. It’s a bit more interactive than usual because I’m guessing not many people have 7 vignettes in their home or, if they do, they probably don’t fit my list exactly! So it’s time to have some fun and be creative, play stylist, and maybe create some new and lovely focal points in your home!

One of Kara’s vignettes

Not everyone knows what this French word actually means, so I asked super stylist Kara Rosenlund, a veritable queen of the vignette (seriously, she makes it look so easy!), to explain. “A vignette to me is essentially a unique visual short story,” she said. “It’s told through using an arrangement of smaller objects gathered together to tell a tale that is only yours. It can be as simple or as grand as you like; a pile of seashells in different sizes gathered from a distant seaside trip laid out on a shelf, to a Metro ticket, a small plastic tacky Eiffel Tower and a Champagne cork from Paris treasured as souvenirs on a mantle.”

I couldn’t think of anyone better to judge the winner of this competition, which, as always, is just for fun, than Kara.

Not surprisingly, she has vignettes everywhere in her own home, but they’re not just for stylists. “They are super fun and super easy and are generally inexpensive and can be easily rearranged when you feel like a change. Adding a vignette gives you a reason and allows you to display your favourite bits and found collections in a way that tells a story and may remind you of certain things.”
Another of Kara’s vignettes
Kara adds: “On the home front they work really well if you have a difficult area or awkward shelf that really isn’t performing too well (we all have them); arrange a vignette and your eye will be catching the beauty in no time, transforming the drab spot.” There really is no better way to give your space personality and depth, and to reveal something about you.
Stylist Kara Rosenlund, the judge of our Instagram challenge
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December’s 10 most popular posts

1. The Stylist’s Guide to Homewares Shopping in Sydney and Melbourne (with Mr Jason Grant)

2. West Elm and Pottery Barn to open in Australia

3. The BedNest bedhead giveaway

4. A House of two Halves by Greg Natale

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Prop Hire Online is for sale. Any takers?

Stylist Jenni Booth is selling her business, two years after creating the first ever online prop hire store.

As a busy stylist, it is one of the things I dreamed of finding while scouring for props on the internet late into the night,” she says. “So in January 2011 I launched Prop Hire OnlineAlong the way it has evolved into so much more than just a place for stylists to hire props from. Now it is a stylist supplies shop, where kits and tools of the trade can be purchased, a directory for stylists assistants and the online shop, G-Sale, is a garage sale of props that I no longer have a need for and want to pass on.”

Photo by Pia Jane Bijkerk

As a a freelance stylist for 18 years, Sydney-based Jenni has scoured the globe for props. While setting up Prop Hire Online, she has juggled a fulltime freelance styling career and working on a new (as yet secret) venture. “While I am extremely proud of what I have created with Prop Hire Online, it is time to pass this onto someone who has the same passion for styling and props as I do, but more importantly, the time to run it.”

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Mr Jason Grant reveals sneak peek of his book: A Place Called Home

Here’s the first peek at stylist Jason Grant’s first book, which he revealed yesterday will be called A Place Called Home.

Published by Hardie Grant, it’s due out in April next year. Looks good, eh?

Photo by Lauren Bamford
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Shannon Fricke sale at Temple & Webster

The latest Temple & Webster sale is curated by well known stylist Shannon Fricke and features her own line of bed linen, which is quite gorgeous. The sale ends in 4 days so be quick!

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Megan Morton’s Things I Love book signing launch and instagram competition winners

A pineapple piñata, extra large confetti on the floor, walls full of instagram photos and lots of smiling faces: it could only be Megan Morton’s fun book signing celebration party at The School in Sydney.

Remember the #thingsilove seven-day Instgram challenge Megan and I teamed up on last month? MM and her team (including the lovely ‘Sophie the stylist’ who I met for the first time last night!) created two walls full of participants’ most gorgeous photos. It was so much fun checking out the huge collages! Prizes were also given out for the best photos for each day and even special mention rosettes!

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Megan Morton’s new book: “All my tricks and best of all, all my treats.”

Stylist Megan Morton’s much anticipated second book Things I Love, is finally out today. Hooray! You may have been getting into the spirit already over on Instagram where Megan and I have been running a seven-day photo challenge (winner to be announced any day now). If, for some BIZARRE reason, you’re still not sure whether to go out and buy it, I’m here to tell you a little more.

I’m lucky enough to have seen a copy already and it really is something special. Not that I’m surprised. Everything MM does tends to be a bit magical.

“While it is definitely a book, it really is so much more,” she says. “You see there is a cut out and keep section. We will call them postcards but they are so much more than that!” (One of them has a pineapple on it, yay! I’m having an argument with myself over whether to tear them out or not! Yes, I know tearing them out is the whole point!). “Do you remember cutting up your magazines and collaging your folder? Well I wanted to regain that sense of wonder I had for magazine pictures and create some you could cut out, frame, collage, fill a pinboard. Because it really is the essence of styling.”

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Guest post: Abigail Ahern’s Sydney masterclass

Abigail, after a horror 48-hour flight from London, arrived in Melbourne hours before her first round of masterclasses and then flew on to Sydney to deliver her class again at Megan Morton’s The School to a room full of Sydney (and New Zealand!) based designers, stylists and interior fanatics.

Aussie stylist Jane Frosh with Abigail Ahern

Abigail is a fun, creative, headstrong soul who scoffs at rules and appears determined to break them. She doesn’t take herself or her branding too seriously which, I believe, is part of her charm. Her talent is outside the box and unconventional.

Her constant references to Alice In Wonderland had the group hanging off her every word. She mixes up scale and proportion, adding friction and grandeur to an interior. Her moody, muted colour palette is both rock & roll and also warm and comforting.

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Win a signed copy of Megan Morton’s new book Things I Love in our Instagram mini challenge!

Stylist Megan Morton, author of the best selling Home Love, has a new book launching next week called Things I Love. I’ve seen it already and it is SUPER GORGEOUS. MM has given me a signed copy to give away to one lucky reader. All you have to do is join in our 7-day Insta-challenge, starting tomorrow!

How to play

You’re probably all over photo challenges by now, but in case you’re not, here’s how it works.

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Stylist Jane Frosh puts her mark on Sydney’s hottest new hotel, QT

Stylist Jane Frosh recently got to work on Sydney’s most exciting new hotel in years, the QT, in the historic Gowings building. She was contracted to design and style the original, heritage listed, Art Deco cabinets on the lobby level and the day spa.

“My concept was to blend the history of the Gowings building with the new funky design of the hotel build,” says Jane. “Gowings was a turn of the century department store. Country folk came to the city and went to Gowings to get a haircut, to have a suit made, to buy underwear etc. Consequently I decided to use paper, string, hessian and women’s underwear to build a concept. The result was an amazing combination of texture, pared back with neon pink (a colour used predominately in the hotel, along with Ives Klein blue), form and story.”

(Why am I not surprised Jane used neon?!)

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Stylists set up cool new Sydney studio

Stylists Jane Frosh and Lucy Weight have teamed up to open a new studio, Cool Edie’s, in Sydney.

Lucy (left) and Jane at Cool Edie’s in St Peters

Jane, who just finished a job at Sydney’s hottest new hotel, QT, is excited about the collaborative creative space in St Peters, which she calls a “one-stop styling shop”.

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Chance to buy stylist’s home, straight off the cover of Country Style

Not just any old home makes it onto the cover of Country Style. Stylist Jane Frosh’s did, and now it’s up for sale. Together with husband Mike, she has transformed this charming Blue Mountains home over the last three years but the lure of a new renovation project now has them looking to sell.

“We bought just over three years ago. From the street it was a pretty uninspiring, albeit a cute turn of the century weatherboard miner’s cottage. It was nothing that special until we walked in the front door! It was so warm and comforting with weatherboards to the ceiling, wide floorboards, lots of original features and so much space!” 300 square metres in fact, plus 2,400 square metres of garden. “That’s around 10 parcels of land in Annandale,” as Jane points out.

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Sibella Court’s Bowerbird book out in October

Sibella Court is such a machine. It only seems like yesterday I went to the launch of her last book, Nomad. The new one, Bowerbird, is due out in October. She’s going to be releasing some special postcards to accompany the book but she can’t decide on the final edit so she’s asking for your help. You can find mroe details and vote for your favourites here.

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Mr Jason Grant on making your home FEEL good

I went to Mr Jason Grant’s design session at Coco Republic Design School last week and it was great. I’m lucky I get to hang out with MJG at industry events all the time but it isn’t really appropriate to pick someone’s brains about their job every time you see them so this way I got to sit back and make notes while everyone else asked the questions. Smart, huh?

For those who don’t know, Jason is a super famous magazine stylist who used to be style director at Real Living. His work can be found in all the major homes magazines, he has his own paint ranges for Murobond and, even more excitingly, he now has a book deal. Can’t wait for that one to come out.

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Sunday Snippets: The best of the week in interiors

First, I must apologise for the lack of Sunday Snippets last week. As most of you will have heard by now, I had a crazy weekend: got engaged on Saturday and had my birthday on Sunday! Can’t complain!

Back to this week, here’s what been happening in my world and interiors…

  • I shared a new online find, I Love Linen, where you can pick up everything you need to recreate that hotel bed at home, but at a massive discount.
  • Hot on the heels of Real Living magazine, Country Style launches its own bed linen collection with Domayne this week.
  • The new belle magazine hit the news stands and I was delighted to find two photos of little ole me in there! Did you spot me?
  • I LOVE candles and I told you about a new Melbourne brand called Voyager that have a really clever ‘floating’ design.
  • Bay & Fyfe is one of Sydney’s hottest new lifestyle brands, currently producing some stunning scarves featuring art by Sneaky Sound System’s Daimon Downey. Founder Frith Hucks gave us an exclusive look inside her Sydney home, where many of the scarves decorate her walls as pieces of art.

A pretty big week all round! I hope you all have a fantastic new week ahead! Jen x

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Putting the love in your home with Megan Morton

Yesterday I went along to stylist Megan’s free workshop at Moore Park SupaCenta in Sydney and picked up some real gems, which I wanted to share with you all. First off, I love the concept of putting love in your home and giving it a really personal touch. We shouldn’t be living in show homes, after all. Homes are to live in, not just to look at, and I’m a great believer that while some trends are fabulous, following them too closely or for the sake of being on-trend can be a big mistake.

“These days there’s so much choice out there, it can be a bit paralysing and confusing for people,” said Megan. “We live in such a visual world (I wake up and I’m checking Instagram) but when it comes to doing something in the real world it gets hard.” Overstimulation right?

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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 next collection by sharing the kind of colours you’d like to see included. He knows, of course, that interiors addicts have great taste!

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What Steve Cordony’s loving right now…

Steve Cordony is interior design editor for belle magazine and event stylist for some of the flashiest parties in town. Right now he’s loving…

  • The Apollo restaurant and the Roosevelt bar in Sydney’s Potts Point
  • The colour mint
  • PAD Interiors in Sydney’s Waterloo and Japanese design studio Nendo
  • The trend for black, dark, sexy glamour
  • Flannelette sheets in winter
  • The smell of a burning log fire
  • Watching Revenge and Homeland on TV
  • Eating stewed rhubarb and ice cream
  • Working on getting his website up and running
  • The saying: “We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”

And he just joined Twitter. Find him here.