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2 weeks ago | 
homestolove.com.au | Carli Philips
Motivated by the mild Queensland climate, the owner and architect of this riverside inner Brisbane property, Alexandra Buchanan, drew on subtle, tropical references to transform and ground her family home. “The interiors have rich, textural reference to the tropics,” she says, referring to the palette of hardwood, concrete and bluestone.
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2 weeks ago | 
homestolove.com.au | Carli Philips
Designers don’t often have the opportunity to visit their own projects regularly – especially well after completion. However, for Melbourne-based interior designer Samantha Eisen, dropping in to this bayside home is a regular occurrence. Defying the ‘never do business with friends or family’ taboo, she successfully renovated it with the owners: her younger sister, Bianca, and brother-in-law, David.
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3 weeks ago | 
homestolove.com.au | Carli Philips
Blue and grey with the slightest trace of indigo, the bluestone facade of this 170-year-old miner’s cottage in Melbourne’s inner east is one of the oldest in the area. Framed by two Pyrus trees with original leadlight glass and a wide patio overlooking parkland, it’s a charming blast from the past. The owners, a young family with two kids, had been living in the house for a while before they decided to renovate.
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1 month ago | 
homestolove.com.au | Carli Philips
Travis Walton, principal architect and interior designer at his own eponymously named studio, was averse to using materials typical of a coastal house in this brutalist Mornington Peninsula home. “We adopted richer and more unexpected materials, such as concrete, stained timber, tumbled travertine, brass and oxidised metal accents,” he says. Ringed by what’s described as a “battlement castle wall”, Norfolk Residence is everything a conventional beach house is not.
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1 month ago | 
homestolove.com.au | Carli Philips
Tucked into the leafy landscape of Melbourne’s inner east, this Colonial Regency mansion features 170 slabs of imported Italian marble used across its floors, columns and bathrooms. “Nothing was spared,” says Swee Lim, who curated the interiors with furniture and art.
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1 month ago | 
homestolove.com.au | Carli Philips
The idea of a Sydney terrace holds a certain kind of romanticism for Jaime Bligh, a New Zealander who fell immediately in love with her Victorian home in Annandale. The interior designer and founder of Care Of Studio was especially smitten with its storied past: a first-floor landlord who fell in love with his downstairs tenant. “He ended up winning big at the Melbourne Cup and moved to a larger estate outside Sydney,” Jaime says.
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2 months ago | 
wallpaper.com | Carli Philips
Elevated on a hill behind two back-to-back cul-de-sacs, this 1980s home kisses the edge of Arakwal National Park – a conservation area and gloriously verdant rainforest on the far north-east coast of Australia’s New South Wales,. Framed by lush greenery, a path leads to the biscuity stretch of sand that spans from Tallow Beach to Broken Head, where sharks, surfers and dolphins share the waves. In the coveted coastal enclave of Byron Bay, older beach estates of this size and location are rare.
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2 months ago | 
homestolove.com.au | Carli Philips
Kids and white furniture in the same breath is enough to send a chill down the spine of most parents. But despite small, grubby hands being powerful tools of destruction, Steffanie and Michael Tzaneros, the owners of this home in Sydney’s Bellevue Hill by interior architect and antiques expert Phoebe Nicol, were unconcerned – even though they had three children under three at the time.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
homestolove.com.au | Carli Philips
Beyond the oversized, heavyset timber door of this house on Sydney’s Northern Beaches is a tranquil compound that could be mistaken for a resort but is, in fact, a serene family home. “In the very first meeting, we pitched a resort-style concept to our clients, who said, ‘Done – that’s exactly what we were thinking,’” recalls Megan Burns, the creative director of CM Studio.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
homestolove.com.au | Carli Philips
The path leading to Melinda and Craig Dwyer’s 1920s Borradale Homestead, in Tasmania’s north-west Circular Head, involves driving through paddocks up a steep incline to the crest of an emerald-green hill. At 100 metres above sea level, the house overlooks the water and out to The Nut, a sheer-sided bluff and the remains of an ancient volcanic plug. Stanley, an isthmus leading to Bass Strait, is where the couple transformed 65 hectares of derelict land into a beef property framed by serene beaches.
