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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.
OH Jesus Christ. Could Rachel Castle’s house / family / life / product range be any more perfect?! Seriously… is this not the cutest polka-dot filled home you have ever SEEN?! And could you imagine a more picture-perfect backdrop for Rachel’s gorgeous bedlinen range and original artworks? Aggh. I die. As Megan Morton once confided – ‘Rachel Castle is SUNSHINE!’. Well, I’m here to confirm that her house is definitely filled with sunshine too!
Rachel lives on Sydney’s Lower North Shore with husband Daz, daughter Cleo (11 – who has the kind of bedroom every little girl dreams of!) and son Lucky (9). They’ve been here just over a year – ‘renovation pending, watch this space!’ says Rachel. WELL I never. It seems to me this home is already pretty gorgeous(!), and Rachel has wasted no time putting her own creative stamp on the place, despite the impending renos! The colourful decorative details really make this home so bright and cheery and full of personality… especially of course Rachel’s own artwork and textiles which grace every room in the house.
Rachel says the inspiration for her home is ‘colour and fun and impulse and whimsy’. I love that! Especially the ‘impulse’ bit. I think all too many times when styling a new home people get all confuddled by the enormity of the task ahead, and so often lose any sense of spontenaity. Not Rachel! I love the idea of just painting a wall on impulse, or spending a afternoon creating a new artwork to fill an empty corner, or moving furniture around spontaneously to keep things fresh! More impulsive interior styling I say! Hear hear!
I don’t know about you but I’m now completely inspired to brighten my little pad for the winter months! I’m off to the Castle online shop to get me some fluoro polka dots…. hmm and a sweet limited edition print wouldn’t go astray either…
Thanks a billion trillion to the Castle clan for sharing their gorgeous home, and to Rachel for leaving me to let myself out! Love that.
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