Design + Decorating

Why This Manly Brisbane New Build Puts Living Upstairs, and Why It Works Beautifully

Most family homes follow the same logic: living and entertaining on the ground floor, connecting to the pool and yard, bedrooms upstairs. It’s a formula that works. But sometimes a site presents something so compelling that the conventional approach simply has to give way. In Manly, on Brisbane’s Bayside, that something was the view. An […]

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Oly Is Now in Australia: The San Francisco Brand Behind the World’s Most Covetable Interiors

If you’ve been following international interior design with any kind of envy, you’ll know the name Oly. The San Francisco Bay Area design house, founded by Kate McIntyre and Brad Huntzinger, has spent more than two decades building a global reputation for furniture, lighting, and objects that feel less like product and more like art.

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Global Style: A House of Wood Shingle and the Case for Keeping What’s Already There

Great design doesn’t have a postcode. And sometimes the most inspiring ideas for how we build and renovate here in Queensland come from the other side of the world. This is one of those projects. On a wooded hillside road on the outskirts of Bath, UK, London and South West-based practice Forgeworks Architects has completed

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The Light Pavilion House: How FOLAR Architecture Transformed a New Farm Cottage on a Narrow Brisbane Block

The best homes reveal themselves slowly. And this one takes its time. From the street, a modest pre-1911 cottage in New Farm reads quietly — heritage details intact, character carefully preserved. But step through the front door and keep walking. Follow the central hallway as the light gradually intensifies, drawing you forward through the old

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Kin & Character: A Queenslander Renovation for Multigenerational Family Life

Some homes are designed for a season of life. This one was designed for all of them at once. Completed in December 2025, this Gordon Park Queenslander renovation is the result of a close collaboration between Brisbane interior design studio Connors & Co. and builders Soza Projects. The brief was clear from the start: create

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Art Meets Function: GlobeWest Unveils Its Most Experimental Furniture Collection to Date

There’s a particular kind of confidence required to make only twelve pieces and call it a collection. But then, GlobeWest has never been a brand that plays it safe. Their latest release – a tightly edited suite of sculptural furniture that blurs the line between functional object and art – feels less like a product

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Spring/Summer 2025 interior trends: Light, warmth, and natural textures take centre stage in Australian homes

As the seasons turn, Australian homes are opening up to the light. Spring and summer bring with them a sense of ease — interiors that feel calm, connected, and naturally bright. According to Luxaflex® Window Fashions, this year’s design direction highlights soft, sun-warmed tones, organic textures, and spaces that encourage a seamless flow between indoors

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Modern living, inside and out with Vincent Sheppard and Cotswold

The exquisite Vincent Sheppard Collection brings together refined elegance, unparalleled comfort, and timeless style.  Vincent Sheppard’s latest collection of indoor and outdoor furniture offers a blend of modern allure and exceptional functionality. The 2024 range from the Belgian brand, available in Australia exclusively through Cotswold, merges classic lines with innovative elegance, ensuring style and durability,

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A contemporary and chic apartment designed for stylish city living

A high-end designer transformation of a ‘bought off the plan’ apartment has ushered in all the contemporary and chic sophistication and functionality required for stylish (and superbly comfortable!) inner-city living in Brisbane. Welcome to a sumptuous urban retreat, floating above one of Brisbane’s liveliest streetscapes. Designed by renowned interior design firm Darren James Interiors, this

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Fresh and contemporary interior design for a modern home on the Sunshine Coast

Drawing inspiration from its natural surroundings, this modern Sunshine Coast home welcomes you at first glance with a fresh and new contemporary interior style designed by Di Henshall Interior Design. Di Henshall, Design Director of Di Henshall Interior Design, explains this home’s appeal succinctly: “It has an organic, welcoming feel,” she says. It’s luxurious, definitely,

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Step inside the beautiful apartment home of Wendy Neilson from Xavier Furniture

This Sunshine Coast apartment draws inspiration from Singaporean style and a love of history, with furniture and accessories curated by the Director of one of Australia’s best furniture brands, Xavier Furniture Wendy Neilson, owner and director of Xavier Furniture, is taking us on a tour through a project close to her heart — it is,

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