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2 weeks 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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3 weeks 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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2 months ago | 
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.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
smh.com.au | Carli Philips
By Carli Philips January 7, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Plant-based may be today’s wellness buzzword but it has been a staple of the Mediterranean diet for centuries. Think vegetables, fruits and whole grains, nuts and seeds, with dairy and fish in moderation. But the magic ingredient? Olive oil, or, as Homer called it, liquid gold. And Crete is where it is at.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
homestolove.com.au | Carli Philips
Period houses can be like a loose thread on a jumper – when you pull on it, the whole thing can start to unravel,” explains designer Chelsea Hing, whose eponymous design studio is based in Melbourne. It’s a common scenario in heritage homes, especially those that have been picked and prodded in a piecemeal fashion over their lifetimes – and this house in Melbourne’s Bayside suburbs was no exception.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
homestolove.com.au | Carli Philips
“It was already really good, we just made it cooler,” explains interior designer Tali Roth, who infused this period home in Melbourne with the dash of extra edge it craved. Her clients, a couple in their 30s, have a self-confessed love of heritage architecture, and this 130-year old house reflected their respect and appreciation for provenance.
