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Australian houses, from architectural masterpieces to suburban family homes, Victorian terraces, mid-century marvels, coastal shacks, city apartments, and everything in between.
Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects.
Award-winning Australian interior design, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top designers.
In depth features on Australia’s most beautiful gardens and landscape design.
Studio visits with Australia’s most talented creatives, from artists to architects, ceramicists to stylists, furniture makers to lighting designers.
Studio visits with Australia’s top artists, and unmissable art exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and beyond.
Weekly recipes and meal ideas from our favourite cooks, authors and foodies.
Unique travel destinations, design-led accomodation and day trip ideas in Australia and New Zealand.
OK so this was quite possibly the MOST popular home on The Design Files this year - Jessica Nixon's amazing little boathouse bungalow in Fairfield! These shots were instantly re-blogged and tweeted and tumbled all over the place... sending Jess many new international home-snooping admirers!
Jess's unique little lovenest is a fully self-contained little unit, right on the bank of the Yarra River (which is visible from Jessica's bedroom window!). Jessica's front door opens into the main living area upstairs, and you have to slip through a TRAP DOOR in the floor, and down a little ladder to reach the kitchen and bathroom below! Very Enid Blyton. In fact, the whole place has a kind of children's storybook appeal... it is a truly magical little pocket of the world.... It's no wonder Jessica pounced on this unique little apartment as soon as it came up for rent!
Jess works at Melbourne's most beautiful rug shop - Loom Rugs in Prahran East. She's also an interior designer by trade, and runs her own Interior Design consultancy called Okologi, specialising in sustainable residential interiors. As you can see by these pics, she has an incredible eye for detail, and believes that you can make informed, sustainable design decisions in any home, on any budget. If you love Jessica's little place, I am sure you will love her work too! Do pop over to her website and have a little look!
There are more shots of Jess's beautiful little pad over here with the original post!
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