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A Sensitive Renovation Of A Modernist Home, With A Few Twists!

A thoughtful renovation by Kennedy Nolan further strengthens the mid-century charm of this modernist Kew home.
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A Fairytale New Family Home In The Byron Hinterland

The French and Moroccan-inspired farmhouse of photographer Jamie and Lisa Green is like stepping into a dream.
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A Former Horse Stable Turned Charming Family Home In Byron

Recipe author Carter Were and Musician Jack Crowther have created a cosy home for their young family.
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Inside Missy Higgins' Cosy 1970s Home

The iconic Australian singer-songwriter shares a look inside her evocative 1970s Melbourne family home.
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A Shared South Yarra Apartment With An Eclectic, Parisian Feel

How housemates Nicole Williams and Ethan Wairau styled a 1920s South Yarra apartment with a mix of French, Scandi and Japanese influences.
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An Alistair Knox-Inspired Reno Of A 1980s Inner-City Home

The potential of 1980s brick houses has been unlocked in Monty Mullooly-Hill's renovated Fitzroy North home.
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Inside A Surprising Reinvention Of A Northcote Heritage Home

A major renovation inspired by a former local quarry has reimagined this heritage home hidden behind its 1890s facade.
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How A Melbourne Couple Lovingly Updated This 1970s Gem

The Merchant Builders home of interior designer Hannah-Lee Hughes is a true retro gem, complete with treetop views.
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Courtney Adamo’s ‘Modern Mid-Century’ Beachfront Holiday Home

The beachside holiday house of Courtney Adamo and her family is the opposite of their Bangalow home, in the best way possible!
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A Family Barn House In Bangalow’s Rolling Hills

The Bangalow home of Claudia Martin and family is both instantly familiar, and like nothing you've seen before!
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A Retro Revival Of A Mid-Century Melbourne Apartment

A retro revival of a 1940s apartment in Toorak's famously coral-coloured Caringal Flats building.
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A California Bungalow, Elevated With Designer Flair

How interior designer Alison Lewis turned a monochrome California bungalow into this divine family home, in a major eight month renovation.
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A Fashion Designer’s Romantic 1860s Family Farmhouse

FME Apparel owner Maddy Maeve Dawe and Brodie Doyle Jones made a tree change to Castlemaine for this rambling country farmhouse.
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A Charming Australian Beach House Made For Year-Round Coastal Living

This cosy, cabin-like renovated Shoreham home champions earthy tones, comfy furnishings and lots of timber, both inside and out.
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A Family’s Dreamy Sea-Change Home + Coastal Garden

Home of the month: the coastal house and garden of Sally Smith and horticulturalist Stuart Fahey on the Mornington Peninsula.
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A Mid-Century Melbourne Home With Glamorous European Flair

Interior designer Tali Roth and family live in a 1969 mid-century Caulfield North home, renovated in Tali's eclectic and sophisticated style.
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A 1980s Timber Beach House Where Every Day Feels Like A Holiday

Josephine and Paul Luczak's Mornington Peninsula beach house captures the nostalgic feel of summer holidays past.
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An Early 2000s Melbourne Apartment Turned ‘Piccolo Palazzo’

Eryca Green's renovated Carlton apartment is a true ‘room of one’s own’ — a warm, light-filled, and decorative sanctuary.
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Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s Multigenerational Dream Family Home

Your first look at the gorgeous new family home of cook, best-selling author, and our very own food columnist — Julia Busuttil Nishimura!
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A Stylist’s Under-The-Radar 1950s Modernist Family Home

The 1950s family home of stylist Gemma Keil designed by prominent mid-century designer, Douglas Snelling.
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Jumbled Founder Pip Brett’s Breathtaking Family Villa in Orange

The savvy style-setter has built her dream family home in country NSW, but it looks straight out of the Mediterranean.
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A Melbourne Architecture Power Couple’s Magic Family Home

Inside the playful Northcote home of Wowowa Architecture directors Monique and Scott Woodward.
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Photographer Eve Wilson’s Palette-Perfect Inner City Family Home

Inside The Design Files' photographer Eve Wilson's incredible Melbourne home, designed by Studio Bright.
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