Swallowfield Barn in Langley, BC, Canada by MOTIV Architects.When Mum and Dad ask you to build them a house, as an architect you’ve got a bit of latitude. You also have a budget that Mum and Dad will never let you forget. And you have a long-term relationship with them that will outlive any...
Workstead House in Charleston, South Carolina.There is something delicious about the prospect of taking a dilapidated building and restoring it to its former grandeur. Every architect and designer worth their salt has a moment of salivation at the mere thought of taking a tumbledown...
Belmont House in Kew, VIC by Kennedy Nolan.Family homes are just that. Homes filled with families. And families start small and get bigger, often with alarming rapidity. Houses or apartments that once suited a couple no longer suit one with a baby. A house that once sufficed to...
Jon Goulder’s Innate Furniture Collection for Spence & Lyda.Recently launched in Sydney ahead of its impending international reveal at Milan Design Week 2018, Innate is a new capsule collection from Adelaide-based designer Jon Goulder and Sydney-based design retailer Fiona...
Interview: Auckland-Based Interior Designer Rufus Knight.I am so excited to share our interview with the wildly talented young designer from New Zealand, Rufus Knight. At just 31, Rufus demonstrates a design maturity and wisdom that's developed well beyond his young age. He has become the...
This House with Plants in Japan by KamakuraStudio Is Not What You’d Expect.Indoor plants have loads of health benefits. As well as looking pretty nice, they’ll reduce carbon dioxide levels, diminish levels of pollutants like nitrogen dioxide and benzene, and even keep air temperatures down on warmer days. The...
Mitchelton Winery Hotel in Nagambie, Victoria by Hecker Guthrie.The Mitchelton Winery Hotel is one of a number of new, luxury lodgings colouring Victoria’s quiet, sunny wine country. In Central Victoria (apparently Victoria’s best-kept wine secret), it’s also the second historic regional hotel by...
Lindenderry Hotel in Mornington Peninsula by Hecker Guthrie.A little village in the hinterland of Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula called Red Hill may not squeal design hotspot, but a few recent additions to the region’s accommodation options may be changing that...
Chalet in the Swiss Alps by Pierre Yovanovitch.Imagine a warm, cosy timber-clad ski chalet, with a picturesque vista across the snowy Swiss Alps. Now imagine if the chalet’s interiors had been designed by a former Pierre Cardin menswear designer with a keenness for luxurious, storied...
