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The Home-Journal

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 21:51:00 +0000

With The Block: Fans v Faves in full speed, I've started writing my tips about main trends inspired by each weeks rooms. Over at The Home Journal this week I've written about window dressings and in particular curtains...

The Home Journal

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 20:14:00 +0000

For my column over at The Home Journal this week I've written about how to bring inspiration to your desk or workspace. There are some great pictures to inspire you and easy ideas for changing your space.

See it here.

The Home Journal - Giveaway

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 08:05:00 +0000

Today & for the rest of this week you have the opportunity to win a gorgeous handmade scarf by Australian brand Once Was Lost. I've interviewed Laura of Once Was Lost over at The Home Journal where you can enter the giveaway. Do it!

The Home Journal

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:12:00 +0000

On The Home-Journal this week in my Interior Tips and Trends column I have shared a few of my favourite finds when it comes to shelving. They are smart, fun, big and small and all available in Australia.

The Home Journal

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 20:16:00 +0000

Take a minute to head across to The Home-Journal sometime this week because it has a whole new look. And have a read of my article on CAPAS Furniture, a collection of furniture made from predominantly cardboard and paper.

The Home Journal

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 20:23:00 +0000

This week on The Home Journal get inspired by backyard rooms. These studios are to die for...

Click here.

Celeste Watson

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 20:14:00 +0000

Melbourne based graphic designer Celeste Watson has created this illustration as a means to point out the ridiculous cost printer ink. If you have bought an inkjet printer in the last few years you will have rejoiced in the amazingly low prices they are available for. However, you have probably quickly been shocked to find the price of the ink cartridge refills reaching almost the same cost of the printer itself.

We're getting ripped off to say the least. According to a report made by The Guardian, the cost of printing ink is the lowest it has ever been, only a couple of dollars per litre. However, when we buy it in the form of print cartridges it is costing more than $4000 per litre, almost double the cost per litre of the world's most expensive perfumes.

Watson has 're-branded' some Hewlett Packard Ink Cartridge packs in the form of Chanel No. 5 perfume bottles to highlight the devious sales tactics. Watson claims "I like throwing design back in the face of its expected audience, but in unexpected ways."

Beach Towel Giveaway

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 20:26:00 +0000

The Home Journal has a gorgeous giveaway this week... and since I'm a contributor and not allowed to enter the competition myself, I thought I should share so one of you could possibly win it!

Up for grabs is a Beach Candy cotton turkish towel in mandarin. It's so lovely!

The competition is open until midnight on Friday (24.1.14), so hop across here to enter.

Isabel Lundah's Swedish home

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:27:00 +0000

This gorgeous Swedish home belongs to Isabel Lundah, marketing manager of Iittala and owner of clothing label RAH. The combination of old and new is carried out perfectly to create a warm and homey, yet artistic and contemporary feel. I love the mix of neutral colours with bright yellows as well!

Photos by Sara Svenningrud for Residence Magazine

Peter Jensen SS2014

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:15:00 +0000

If you know me at all you will know I like big t-shirt style dresses. I just like sleeves... And these designs by Peter Jensen are so so great. The Diana SS2014 collection is full of desirables...

Photos by Paul Bliss

Art-filled Chelsea Apartment

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 02:02:00 +0000

Allan Schwartzman, 54 is an art collector. Even before owning a space to that could display his art, Schwartzman amassed exactly the right pieces that he'd need one day in his dreamed-of New York apartment. He explains "before I started buying art I thought I'd collect it. I knew someday I would move, and just hoped it fit whatever place I moved to."

When Schwartzman found his luxury Chelsea high-rise 11th Avenue Residence designed by Jean Nouvel, he started over with all that he had in storage - modern Brazilian furniture and his collection of art. What was originally a three bedroom apartment was converted into what he calls "a deconstructed one-bedroom."

The windows within the apartment which are of various size and are strategically positioned offer a panoramic view of the Hudson River and cityscapes to the North and East. These windows dictate how the furniture and objects were placed.

Despite the density, the apartment is not the obstacle course that it first appears. Thanks to Schwartzman's installation skills, the eye can easily take in the whole or focus on one object without another intruding.

All photos by Jason Schmidt and found here.

Affordable Sofas

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 20:14:00 +0000

This Christmas and birthday, seeing as though I celebrate them within two weeks of each other, Jorge and I are buying our first sofa. We have been living with a red suede two-seater which my parents found on the side of the road for the first two years of our married life and now it's time for it to go. Thank the Lord! Ideally I'd love a Jardan or Tuckey sofa; handmade, Australian made, beautiful... but far to pricey! So for our first sofa I've narrowed down the options to these beauties...

Let me know what you think of them, or if you know any others I may like! And no rush... we plan on getting a bargain in the boxing day/week sales!

Vue 'Hugo' from Myer

'Hawkes' from OzDesign

'Jericho' from ClickOn Furntiure

'Citti' from Plush

Xmas Ideas

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 23:17:00 +0000

So before I start, I thought i'd apologise for being away from the blog for a bit... Work has been crazy busy and my weekends have been so full that I haven't had a chance to open my computer, let alone write a blog post. So I hope you haven't been missing me too much!!

Anyway... Christmas is less than a week away! CRAZY! But unfortunately this year I am working straight up until Christmas Day so I'm feeling like I'm missing out a bit on the excitement and preparation of getting ready for Christmas. So today I thought I'd share my inspiration for Christmas styling and decorating if I had the time to do something!!

All photos here.

(Ps excuse the french in the second last image...)

The Home-Journal

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 16 Dec 2013 20:20:00 +0000

This week on The Home-Journal I discuss Pantone's 2014 Colour of the Year. What it is and how to use it in your homes...

Read it here.

The Non Program Pavilion

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 20:19:00 +0000

Located in the South of Spain, in Salobreña is this small pavilion, surrounded by a remarkable landscape. Designed by Jesús Torres García Architects, the Non Program Pavilion was created through the idea of disappearing in the landscape, attempting to erase the division between the intervention and the area. This concern of integration reaches the point where the landscape generates the architecture itself.

Goo Collection

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 22:04:00 +0000

Sisters Sally Davies, Lisa Nicol and their mum are the owners and makers of the gorgeous bedlinen, and baby wears company Goo Collection. The range of products features designs that are great for design-conscious mums. No longer fairytale characters and superheroes, this bedlinen features simple and stylish designs in soft colour palettes. Aren't they great!!

Alpha Cruxis

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 07:37:00 +0000

Alpha Cruxis is a Berlin-based design project by Australian designer Rebecca Martin. Working with leather, Alpha Cruxis creates sculptural, minimal design objects celebrating material, technique and form.

Using traditional leatherworking techniques, each Alpha Cruxis piece is cut, sewn and finished by hand in our Berlin studio from the highest quality Italian vegetable tanned leather.

The debut 2013 bag collection from Alpha Cruxis ‘GEOMETRY’ takes shape in five striking, minimal designs using 3mm thick black leather and silver hardware.

The Home-Journal

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 07:01:00 +0000

This week on The Home-Journal I share my top 10 gift ideas for Christmas. Most items are from Australian designers and are perfect for anyone who loves Australian made, local home design.

Here it is!

Lumberjack candle holder

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 20:15:00 +0000

Danish designer Simon Legald designed these candle holders after being inspired by the silhouette formed in a tree trunk as lumberjacks slowly chop away to a trees centre. Each set of the Lumberjack candle holders are created from a single cylindrical piece of solid wood. The collection is sold through

Normann Copenhagen.

The Home-Journal

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 20:14:00 +0000

This week on The Home-Journal I share my top 10 cushions for the end of this year.

They are funky, fun and add so much to a space.

Here's the link.

Chocolate & Chalk

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 20:03:00 +0000

Since rockclimbing two or three times a week for the past few months, I have started looking up more than just interiors in my 'spare' time... I search for photography of fashion on cliffs, and nature photography of climbing places around the world. I watch youtube videos of pro rock-climbers to learn their technique and see where they climb, and I get fascinated by the stalactites and materials which create these wondrous walls which people hang to. So when I stumbled across these photos of the contrast of the textures of chocolate and chalk, I fell in love.

Chalk is one thing a climber needs a lot of. Since J and I started climbing I've had to buy five more bags of chalk already. The chalk photographed here is from the Chalk Cliffs of Møns Klint in Denmark and were taken by amazing photographer Ulf Svane. Cereal Magazine has compared these images with the three photographs of chocolate in its various forms, taken by blogger Anne Moltke Hansen of Anne Au Chocolat. I could look at those chalk photographs all day... There is just something about the colouring and texture that draws me in.

Broste SS14

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 20:12:00 +0000

Danish Interior Company Broste new Spring/Summer 2014 catalogue has some amazing photographs of both the products for sale and incredible experimental pictures. Styled by wonder-woman Nathalie Schwer and photographed by Line T. Klien the end result in beautiful!

Invisible Helmet

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 20:14:00 +0000

This is a crazy idea, but Swedish design students Anna and Terese have worked on creating an invisible bicycle helmet... Watch and be inspired!

Orla Kiely

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 20:14:00 +0000

The always stylish and desirable Orla Kiely has released her SS14 Resort Collection and boy its cute!

Doors of Malta

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 21:22:00 +0000

Recently found at Cereal Magazine are these photos of Doors in Malta photographed by James Stapleton. I love the colours, shapes and textures that different entrances display... They make you want to walk up and open them!