WHEN JUSTINE AND LUKE ORTON FIRST MOVED IN together over a decade ago, they rented a home in the seaside Newcastle suburb of Merewether, immediately fell in love with the coastal lifestyle and vowed to buy a house there one day. Fast-forward to today

IT’S TIME TO EXHALE. Summer’s here, which means holidays, longer days and, let’s be honest, a great excuse to redecorate your home accordingly. With Christmas done and dusted, all I want to do is swap red and gold for blue and white, which is why I d

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HOME…… NIKKI CAMPBELL: HAS NEVER FELT MORE LIKE HOME. FEELING GRATEFUL TO BE WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS THIS YEAR. SWIMWEAR…… N: SUMMER UNIFORM. SIR. SWIM IS ALL ABOUT STRONG LINES, CLEAN SHAPES AND LAYERING WITH SIR. READY-TO-WEAR. MY ENDURING STYLE IC

Take your breakfast spread to the next level by pairing country-style checks and soft retro pastels reminiscent of a 1950s kitchen with more contemporary shapes. When choosing a colour palette for your summer table, be a little experimental and ventu

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STEP INSIDE THE HOME of creative consultant Lisa Danielle Smith and you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d wandered onto a ’70s coastal film set. Its awash with muted hues, tropical retro prints and the smooth sounds of a cinematic backing track – name

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IF THE KITCHEN IS THE HEART of your home, the living room is surely the soul. It’s where we retreat, relax and recharge, and it’s where many of us have been working remotely, too. While every member of the real living team has their own distinct styl

BEAUTIFUL, FUNCTIONAL, TACTILE. This is how interior architect Phoebe Nicol describes the sensitively-selected materials throughout Cultiver’s new Sydney store. Of course, she could just as easily be talking about the brand’s offering of luxury linen

AS MUCH AS WE LOVE an Australian summer our climate can also be extremely harsh and beating the heat comes down to selecting a home cooling system that best suits your requirements and budget. Cooling technologies have advanced in leaps and bounds –

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CHOOSING THE RIGHT BLINDS FOR YOUR HOME can be tricky. We want the light to flood in, but not all the time. We want to see what’s going on outside, but privacy is a huge factor too. However, one of the biggest considerations is how it will look, and

THERE’S NO CLEAR DESTINATION ON ARRIVAL at Lune de Sang. It’s easy to get lost when entering the property – which is somewhat the intention. Visitors are drawn to the hillside forest, with no clear view of the house or other buildings to show the way

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Sally McGarry, a town planner and project manager, her husband Matt McGarry, electrician and director of MTS Group, their three boys Jasper, 10, Duke, 8, and Sonny, 4,and their Samoyed x Retriever Shelby. The home was a collaborative effort between t

Rum, lime and sugar are often referred to as the Holy Trinity of Caribbean cocktails, and the Daiquiri is one of the most iconic examples of this genre. The name Daiquiri is taken from a mining town in Cuba where American Jennings Cox claims to have

A couple who both work in mental health, with their three school-age children and an Irish Wolfhound/Staffordshire Terrier cross. They engaged Timmins + Whyte architects to craft the extension of their family home. @timminswhyte_architects BEFORE BUY

One story of the White Lady tells that it was created for Zelda Fitzgerald (wife of F. Scott) at London’s Savoy Hotel in the 1920s and so named because of her platinum blonde hair. Whether that is true or not, it was a very popular cocktail in Europe

A couple with their three children and the family dog. The owners engaged Pandolfini Architects to design this brand new home. Pandolfini.com.au | @pandolfini_architects ANCHORED IN THE BAYSIDE TOWN OF SORRENTO on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, thi