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chequerboard • Get your home set up for this season’s most playful style statement
golden wheat • Our cut of the best soft yellows for instant winter warmth
hegi design house • Husband-and-wife team Nelli and Juri Hegi founded their NSW studio with a clear goal: to produce beautiful high-end furniture from sustainably sourced materials
magic moments • Still life as a genre might have been around for 500 years or more, but you need only look at the huge number of such paintings to have emerged since that time to see that it has never gone out of favour. Beloved for its ability to elevate the everyday, to evoke a memory, or just act as a portal to another place in time, still-life ‘snapshots’ persevere among some of our most talented emerging artists
loewe weaves • The luxury fashion house has an exciting initiative: turning surplus materials into new style icons
hot new openings • Three gorgeous stores we’re stalking
common ground • Can communal living save us all? The visionary founders of Nightingale Housing are out to prove that Australian apartments can be clever, sustainable and affordable
bath beauties • From towels to tiles and everything in between, these designs are off the hook
incense holders • Enjoy the ancient ritual of releasing incense with a beautiful new burner
the long lie-in • Inspired by the 1969 photograph of music legends John Lennon and Yoko Ono in bed on a two-week protest for peace, we’ve made our beds in two effortlessly relaxed styles to enjoy at your leisure
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GLOBAL AFFAIR • Drawing influences from abroad, the renovation of this house on Sydney’s lower north shore allowed a travel-loving family to bring the adventure home
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PARK LIFE • Blessed with a stunning pool and swing set over the fence, this rejuvenated home works a treat for all ages
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BIG LITTLE SPACE • A modern makeover in a fetching shade of duck-egg blue has turned this 31-square-metre Sydney apartment into a spacious-seeming weekday home
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DECO DREAM • A NSW family were all in for a major renovation when they found a rough Art Deco diamond at the end of a long drive
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neutral-free zone • This garden apartment in central Copenhagen embraces colour and pattern in a bold new way
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radical rethink • A tight budget was no match for the owners of this Melbourne apartment and their like-minded architect
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my renovation diary • Built from scratch on the east coast of Tasmania, this passion project took inspiration from its spectacular location
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style file • Three top tastemakers share the personal pieces that inspire their practice
dressing room • A room of one’s own where bathing and dressing meld into a private, super-organised sanctuary? Yes, please!
CLOTHING-CARE SYSTEMS • Overnight steam cleaners are revolutionising the way we clean our clothes and changing laundries forever
ROOM REVEALS • In search of renovation inspiration? The BuildHer team share some of the greatest hits from their project...