Australian Home Beautiful

Shades of style

Many dream about renovating a home and letting their imagination take full flight, only to find themselves erring on the side of caution. Not so for Tori, an interior designer and the founder of Banbury Design Company. Beyond the emerald green front door of her home in Brisbane’s leafy south-east awaits a mesmerising world of colour and style.

When Tori and her husband Tom bought the home a decade ago, it wasn’t quite so alluring. “The house had a quick renovation by a developer,” says Tori. “It was originally a 1919 twobedroom cottage gifted to

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