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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.
WELL hello 2013 and HAPPY NEW YEAR! Hope you all had a smashing night last night... as I type it's actually New Year's Eve, and I'm in Sydney, housesitting a beautiful apartment in Double Bay. Gotta love a change of scenery! We're planning for a quiet evening, a bottle of sparkling and maybe a glimpse at fireworks if we can bear the crowds... am a bit apprehensive about the Sydney NYE party-goers! Fingers crossed!
ANYWAY, given I'm in Sydney this week, it seems fitting to re-visit another beautiful Sydney home which we first shared in back in July. This gorgeous little family pad is another of my personal faves from the TDF archive - it's in Sydney's Rozelle, and belongs to Andrea Millar and husband Ben, and their boys Sebastian (5) and Casper (2).
What is interesting about this home, and what resonated with many of you when we first published this story, is that this isn't actually Andrea and Ben's first 'dream home'. Before moving here, home for the Millar family was a large house on a big block, 45 minutes from the CBD in Turramurra on Sydney's Upper North Shore. After the birth of their first child, Andrea and Ben had made the move from Sydney's inner west to Turramurra for all the usual reasons - more space, bigger garden, room to grow. Here the Millar family created what they thought would be their 'forever house'.
But, sometimes your dream home isn't everything it's cracked up to be. 'We lived there for three years only to realise that more space and a bigger garden meant more work!' says Andrea. 'I never saw Ben, he was always wrestling with that bush block on weekends'. And so, three years on, and after the birth of their second child, the Millar family downsized, moving into this pretty little weatherboard in Sydney's inner west. 'We moved back to a little garden and very little space, but there is (just) enough room for us and we love the neighbourhood' says Andrea. The atmosphere, the coffee, the people, the restaurants and markets within walking distance are a constant reminder of just why Andrea and Ben made the decision to move back into town, despite having to compromise a little on space.
For the full story and many more pics, do re-visit the original post!
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