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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.
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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.
I must say what I love most about photographing homes pretty much every week(!!) is the incredible variety of creative styling you see from one gorgeous home to the next! From teeny tiny one bedders to super slick architecturally designed homes, and of course the ever popular mid-century masterpieces... it's always incredible to see just how many varied ways there are to pull together a beautiful creative home. Today we're in 'cute 'n crafty' territory with this gorgeous family home in Sydney's leafy suburbs!
This lovely light-filled home belongs to artist, designer and avid crafter Lisa Tilse of The Red Thread. Lisa lives here with her daughter Roxy (7 years), and also runs her business from home. After many years working as a graphic designer, in 2005 Lisa took the plunge and launched her own range of artwork for children's bedrooms, home accessories and craft kits under the name 'The Red Thread'. Given Lisa's creative background and love of all things handmade, it's no surprise to see so many wonderful handcrafted details in her home - including a VAST number of cushions! Lisa has a self confessed cushion obsession, I counted 25 throughout the home during my visit - very impressive cushion count Lisa! (Can anyone out there beat that?)
Lisa has lived here with Roxy for five and a half years. She's been lucky not to have to do too much to the place - other than the usual paint job, carpet removal (which - to Lisa's surprise - revealed beautifully polished floorboards that looked like they'd never been walked on!), and a little landscaping in the front garden. What is it with all these lucky people who move into beautiful homes that require LITTLE OR NO renovation / maintenance?! Most unfair.
Lisa says her favourite aspect of the home is definitely the living area at the back of the house. 'It's drenched in northerly light and sun. In the summer we fling open all the french doors to bring the outside in, and in winter it's cosy, sunny and warm. It's the heart of the house.' It certainly was a showstopper on the day I visited - filled with bright light all day, and casting long warm shards of afternoon sun across the dining table and kitchen towards late afternoon.
Huge thanks to Lisa for sharing her sweet home with us today! (Thanks also for making me LUNCH when I visited!) If you love all the handmade flourishes in Lisa's home, chances are you'll love her pretty product range too - do pop over and have a look!
ps. forgot to mention Lisa has an excellent BLOG too! Well worth a visit!
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