April 2024

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Elle Lovelock CREATIVE DIRECTOR Katrina Yaxley DEPUTY EDITOR Victoria Kingsbury ART DIRECTORS Paloma Garay, Alice Ierace STYLIST Lucy Gough IMAGE RETOUCHER Matus Kundrat CHIEF COPY EDITOR Peter Griffiths FEATURES EDITOR Brittany Smith
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Love you, Mum
Traditionally, most of us only decorate for holidays like Christmas. It creates such a beautiful atmosphere that I thought, why not keep it going? I’m not saying keep the tree up all year round, but I love the idea of decorating to suit the changing
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HOMEBEAUTIFULMAG @HOMEBEAUTIFUL HOMEBEAUTIFUL.COM.AU PINTEREST.COM/HOMEBEAUTIFUL HOMEBEAUTIFUL@AREMEDIA.COM.AU THE DAILY HOME EDIT THERE’S NOTHING LIKE A FARMHOUSE SET AMONG THE LUSH SUNSHINE COAST TO INSPIRE WOULD-BE RENOVATORS. THIS HOME WAS CAREFU
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Fresh Picks
Ensuring your guests get their beauty sleep has never been easier thanks to Koala’s new ‘Beauty Sofa Bed’. Designed to suit modern aesthetics, as well as the highest possible comfort levels, the 3-seater sofa bed is available in six bespoke colours,
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On Board
Who: Founder, owner, designer and maker at Ivy Alice Vintage, Melissa Wandless. What she does: Designs and makes handmade reclaimed timber cheese, charcuterie and serving boards. Where: Macclesfield, South Australia. Why she does it: “I wanted to
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Top 10 Bowled Over
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Check Mate
1. Gingham sheet set in Juniper, $249/queen, Schoolhouse. 2. Gingham linen fabric in Blue and White, $30.99/15cm x 10cm, Linen Me. 3. L&M Home ‘Ava’ gingham linen cushion, $101/50cm x 50cm, Temple & Webster. 4. ‘Charli’ blue check dinner bowl, $34.99
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Skin Deep
1. Beauty Sleep Power Peel resurfacing night mask, $134.95/50ml, Alpha-H. 2. Nutricentials Here You Glow exfoliating toner, $36/150ml, Nu Skin. 3. Emma Lewisham Illuminating Exfoliant, $82/100ml, Mecca. 4. Wishful Yo Glow enzyme scrub, $60/100ml, Sep
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Happiness Project
For mum and businessowner Louisa, home is where the heart is. The Brisbane home that she purchased 15 years ago with her husband Brent is always a hive of activity, with a steady flow of friends and family calling in each day, and a rotating calendar
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Colour Crush
Cradled by a glorious garden on an expansive 1600 square metres of land, this Melbourne home has undergone a beautifully considered transformation since the owners purchased it in 2021. And for this, the couple pay tribute to the talents of interior
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Higher Love
An empty site in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs with sweeping ocean views was too hard to resist for colour consultant Kate Ward and her husband Rob who live here with their three children. They knew it could provide the foundations for a forever family ho
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In The Long Run
Sometimes, if luck is on your side, a dream home can find you. That’s how it was for interior designer and renovator Sophie. “I was looking at properties with my mother, who had already sold her house, but the moment we walked through the door here I
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Leading Edge
Bathrooms, and showers in particular, are all about duality. They serve as retreats for relaxation, but are also highly functional spaces that are put through their daily paces. As such, storage is an essential part of bathroom design, not only for p
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Nice Work
Gone are the days when a home office was a nice-to-have. For many of us now, it’s a necessity. We spend multiple days a week here, with heads down, pens up and keyboards clacking, so if you haven’t committed to a forever solution to your home office,
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Ebb & Flow
There’s a harmonious sense of flow when you journey from the nature-filled streets of Eastern Melbourne and into this home. The interior palette takes inspiration from the surrounding foliage outside while the hero materials and finishes are carried
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Midas Touch
Aregion of hot, dry summers and heavy winter frosts, Maldon in Victoria’s Goldfields is a town heavily influenced by its gold rush history. With its largely unchanged 1850s character, the picturesque streets attract visitors from far and wide. For on
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The gardener’s Log
With one foot in each season, April is the month of limbo in the garden. I find myself thinking of winter as I reach for a jumper before heading outdoors on those chilly, misty mornings. However, by midday, the warmth of the sun reminds me there is s
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Be Our Guest
HAVE A LUNCH TO HOST THIS EASTER? HOP OVER TO HOPEWOODINTERIORS.COM.AU TO DISCOVER A RABBIT HOLE OF BEAUTIFUL TABLEWARE IDEAS FOR THE PRETTIEST OF TABLESCAPES. Did you know some oils are far superior in their flavour and potency? Here are some of our
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All American
Things didn’t bode well for this six-bedroom Queenslander in Brisbane when owners Teresa and Dale first set eyes on it. It felt too big for the couple and their now 12-year-old daughter Bennett, yet there was also minimal storage, the interiors were
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Team Spirit
It was an all-in family affair when Byron Bay couple Ky and Mick bought an ’80s beach house in need of an overhaul in the Northern Rivers region of NSW. With Mick’s skills as a builder at Broken Head Building, Ky’s design expertise as founder of Stud
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French Chic
As parents to five growing daughters, Kim and Sean Gleason needed a home that would be large enough for them to all live comfortably together while also providing enough breakout spaces for much-needed solitary time. They discovered this grand sandst

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