Jodie Gibbons

Jan 19, 2025 | homestolove.com.au | Brigid Arnott |Jodie Gibbons |Sheriden Rhodes

It was spring when Denise and Mark Duffield-Thomas made their way down the driveway framed by poplar trees at the historic Lorn Rose Farm in Lorn, New South Wales. Cradling their newborn daughter, Denise stepped from the car. Taking in the idyllic property bordered by bucolic farmland, she had an overwhelming sense of coming home. It was as if the four-hectare property, with its early 1900s homestead, rustic barn and three-bay covered rose farm, was calling her. “I said to Mark, ‘Can’t you see it?

Dec 11, 2023 | homestolove.com.au | Samantha van Egmond |Brigid Arnott |Jodie Gibbons

When passionate gardeners Treska and Dave James found themselves in a newly built house on the South Coast of New South Wales, complete with shiny new furnishings and a lawn "manicured to within an inch of its life", they had an overwhelming sense that something was missing. "We built a massive home on a postage-stamp block," says Dave, who, along with Treska, works as a public servant and commutes to Sydney part-time.

Nov 6, 2023 | homestolove.com.au | Penny Carroll |Brigid Arnott |Jodie Gibbons

Dairy, bakery, local shop – this charming house in Durras, on the NSW South Coast, has played several roles since it was built in the 1880s. Now, after undergoing an extensive but sensitive renovation, it's ready to usher in a whole new era as a light-filled, comfortable family home. Its new owners – just the fourth in the home's long history – have their own connection to Durras. Sarah and Geoff first bought property in the town, the traditional lands of the Yuin people, in 1987.

Aug 14, 2023 | homestolove.com.au | Lucy Francis |Brigid Arnott |Jodie Gibbons

Do you ever feel like life is simply a series of short breaks between cleaning tasks? As though you're perpetually vacuuming the floor, cleaning the kitchen bench, wiping grubby finger-marks off your cabinets? You are not alone. While clean spaces are an emblem of the house proud, life has a way of, well, getting in the way. Nine-to-fives, pets bringing in dirt, beloved children throwing food on the floor, appointments and sporting games you have to rush off to.

Jul 10, 2023 | msn.com | Jodie Gibbons

A creative retreat full of writers, stylists and photographers, held on a farm in rural New South Wales in 2019, sparked a change in Kasturi Wren. At the time, her life looked a little different. She was living in Sydney's Inner West, with a "very demanding, consuming" legal career and had been in a long-term relationship since her early 20s. She'd done everything she felt she was supposed to do. "I was following a path that I didn't question much.