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The Design FilesFirst Look: Eva’s New Flagship Store In Richmond Australian furniture brand Eva is known for designing pieces made for everyday living — and its showrooms follow the same philosophy. Each is conceived as a home, allowing customers to experience the furniture in spaces
The Design Files6 Helpful Tips For Styling Your Home On A Budget The right styling can truly make or break a home. Even the most beautiful architectural builds will lose their sparkle if furnished poorly, with mismatched pieces (or worse, too many matching pieces!), a lack of lamp lig
The Design FilesFor Sale: A Renovated 1950s Home In The Dandenong Ranges Eagle-eyed TDF readers will recognise this Dandenong Ranges home from when we featured it back in 2020! The cosmetic changes and outdoor renovations from homeowners Lucy Spartalis and Alastair Innes have given this 1950s
The Design FilesHow A Clever Transformation Brought Light Into A Dark + Disjointed Victorian Most homeowners look to maximise natural light and brighten their living areas in a renovation — and the owners of this Victorian heritage home were no different. In the transformation of this family home, Kuzman Archite
The Design FilesHow An Artist + Designer Refreshed This Art Deco Home In Just Two Months For an interior designer, the prospect of transforming your own home from the ground up can be tempting. But Folk Studio director Mariah Burton and her husband, artist Dan Rushford, took a deliberately light-handed appro
The Design FilesHow This Striking Home Sits Quietly In Its Breathtaking Setting Positioned on the side of an exposed rocky hill overlooking the Cathedral Ranges, this home by JAK Architecture purposefully makes the surrounding landscape the star of its build. What started as a vacant block is now a
The Design Files6 Places Every Nature-Lover Should Visit On Tasmania’s East Coast Having grown up on an urban herb nursery, Hannah Moloney has always had a deep appreciation for the natural world. In fact, it’s one of the main reasons the author, sustainability advocate and host for ABC TV’s Gardening
The Design FilesA Modern Brick Extension For A Family’s Fitzroy North Edwardian While this Fitzroy North home was in good condition, it needed a subtle transformation to make it even more liveable for years to come. Nick Harding of HA Architecture drew on the home’s solid brick Edwardian architectur
The Design FilesHow Former Farmland Became A Thriving Regenerative Garden When Rex and Elaine Vandenberg purchased this 21-acre Narre Warren property ahead of their retirement, they were committed to guiding the landscape in the most sustainable way possible. They envisioned a flourishing life
The Design Files10 Of Our All-Time Favourite Kitchens To Inspire Your Next Renovation The kitchen is one of the hardest-working spaces in any home — but that doesn’t mean it can’t be one of the most beautiful, too. From considered cabinetry and clever layouts to unexpected materials and timeless colour pa
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