Chris Pearson

2 days ago | homestolove.com.au | Chris Pearson

Poised on a hill overlooking Sydney Harbour and with liner-like views, this apartment celebrates an enduring collaboration between one of the owners and interior designer Thomas Hamel. In 25 years, he has designed 20 properties for her across the world, including homes in the UK and US. From rugs to lights, this project is peppered with the products of that partnership, layers of memories that have found a new home and are revealed in a fresh light.

3 weeks ago | homestolove.com.au | Chris Pearson

In the 1960s, Jan Clark, the founder and owner of the Lancemore Lindenderry boutique hotel, spent idyllic childhood summers at her parents’ beach house nearby on the Mornington Peninsula. “This area was little more than a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it sort of a place, with acres upon acres of fruit trees and a few houses occupied by orchardists,” she says.

3 weeks ago | homestolove.com.au | Chris Pearson

Grand, theatrical and petite succinctly sum up the home and playful paradise that famed US potter and designer Jonathan Adler shares with his partner, Simon Doonan, in Palm Beach, Florida. “This house is a portrait of me and my much better half,” Jonathan points out. “If we were a house, this would be us.” A fabulous celebration of colour and quirkiness, it fits the couple, known for their wit and self-irony, like the proverbial glove.

1 month ago | homestolove.com.au | Chris Pearson

For owner Kristen, this smart four-bedroom Queenslander home in inner Brisbane was a case of back to the future. She and her husband began married life in a heritage weatherboard cottage, with its air of romance, and then left for the suburbs to raise four children, now adults. “I had long wanted to return to a Queenslander, but with a modern extension,” she says.

1 month ago | homestolove.com.au | Chris Pearson

With Parisian flair flowing through this elegant home, it could be beside the Seine in Paris, with the Eiffel Tower framed by its generous glazing. Crafted curves, wainscoting, herringbone floors and a general je ne sais quoi make its French-born owner feel totally at home. Yet instead, it’s poised above a bay in Sydney’s south with its own alluring beauty.