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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.
Can't you just tell in an instant by the lush green (and very mini) garden that this is a Sydney home!? It's all about the FOLIAGE. A garden overflowing with glossy green foliage is one thing worth moving to Sydney for, I reckon. You'd have to break all water restriction rules in Melbourne to achieve this level of garden cuteness!
The home, in Sydney's Woollahra, belongs to illustrator/stylist/merchandiser Heidi Gill, husband James and Jemima (8 yrs old) - they've been here almost four years. Aside from the sweet courtyard garden, this supremely pretty little house is such a perfect exercise in efficient city living! It's truly tiny - with just two bedrooms a kitchen / living space too small for a dining table - and yet it works so well for this busy family of three, plus Pepper the dog! Amazing.
After buying the home, Heidi and James renovated the interior, with an emphasis on space efficiency - the result is a multi-use space which conceals clever storage in every nook, leaving just enough room for key furniture items. Bespoke cabinetry streamlines the kitchen / eating zone, and a cantilevered breakfast bench doubles as a dining table / workstation, leaving space for a just a 2 seater couch. Somehow it all just fits together like Tetris, without an inch to spare!
Despite it's modest proportions, Heidi's home has a genuinely relaxed, comfortable feel - which I reckon can be put down in large part to her 'stylist's touch' - a classic, understated and intuitive sense of style. The pared back palette - monochrome, blonde timbers, carerra marble, charcoal and a touch of mauve - gives the home a real sense of calm elegance and restraint.
Heidi says she loves her 'postcard sized garden' the most, as well as her pretty bedroom with its generous bay window. As for the local area - the greatest drawcard for Heidi's family is the proximitiy to Centennial park, and 'Plane Trees, Plane Trees, Plane Trees'!
Massive thanks to Heidi and family for sharing their perfect pocket home with us today!
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