Carli Philips

Melbourne

Writer at Freelance

Contributing Editor at Bauer Media Group (AU)

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Articles

Four must-visit eateries in Greece’s newest food destination

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Carli Philips

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The city of Chania, on the north-west coast of Crete, has a charming medieval harbour and an old town full of architectural influences drawing from the Ottomans, Venetians and Egyptians. But now there’s another reason to visit: a new generation of food makers making their mark with slick venues. If it wasn’t for the snaking queues, it would be easy to simply pass by Red Jane Bakery.
A Down-To-Earth City Retreat With A Brick Extension In Subiaco

3 weeks ago | homestolove.com.au | Carli Philips

During the week, Michelle Barrett and her husband Kieran sweat it out at their family farm near Esperance, WA, about 100km from so much as a supermarket. “We wanted a place to retreat to in the city,” says Michelle, the owner of this “Perth pad” and also the founder of interior design studio Frank & Boyd. “We wanted a place for when we are in Perth on business or visiting the kids,” says Michelle of the couple’s adult daughters Emma and Eadie, who live in the house full-time.
An Architect's Inner-Brisbane Home Extension

1 month 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.
A Classic Federation Home With Floor-To-Ceiling Windows

1 month 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.
A 170-Year-Old Bluestone Miner's Cottage In Melbourne

1 month 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.
A Brutalist Coastal Home On The Mornington Peninsula

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.
A Colonial Regency-Style Mansion In Melbourne's Inner-East

2 months 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.
Vintage Finds Infuse Charm In This Sydney Designer's Home

2 months 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.
This Byron Bay treehouse is. the stuff of childhood dreams

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.
Inside Steffanie Tzaneros' European-Inspired Sydney Home

Feb 25, 2025 | 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.