STYLE NOTE: Kip&Co. products used throughout: Long Lunch water jug in red & peach + Pomodori plate, pasta bowl & salad bowl + The Deep Blue rectangular tablecloth in woven French flax linen + Pink Marble cutlery set, all from kipandco.com.au
Bright, colourful, carefree. The style we’ve come to love from Melbourne-born homewares brand Kip&Co flows throughout Alex McCabe’s home on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.
“The thing with Kip is that it’s genuinely an extension of Kate, Hayley and my own personal aesthetic; you can see the product development really reflects where we’re at in our stage in life,” McCabe says of the business she founded over a decade ago with her friends, sisters Kate Heppell and Hayley Pannekoecke. When the trio started having kids, that meant a textiles range expanded to baby wear. Now that they have young families and are relishing time at home, it’s inspired a joyful kitchenware range. “Entertaining is something we all genuinely love doing,” says McCabe.
The home McCabe built with husband Bobby Babb stands on a vineyard her parents once owned. McCabe became determined to buy the land after her mum could no longer tend it, and created her dream weekender. Three years on, the couple have
