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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 try to keep things varied around here in the house department – you know, rambling country property one week, cute ‘n crafty city pad the next. What I always struggle to find, though, is more masculine interiors, so it was great to cross paths with Garth Allan recently, and document his stylish Sydney apartment!
Garth’s is one of a handful of generously proportioned apartments housed in an enormous Victorian Tudor mansion in Sydney’s Darling Point. The home itself has incredible bones of course – soaring ceilings, bucket loads of natural light and period features throughout, such as the incredible detailed stained glass windows. To this Garth has brought a tight edit of his favourite finds, from carefully sourced artworks, to salvaged vintage gems. ‘Our living room has a bit of a supper club feel’ says Garth. ‘The deer head came to us from the neighbours. The zebra print hide and the zigzag lamps give the space a bit of a graphic punch’.
Garth is a retail buyer – he sources designer fashion and homewares for online retailer BrandsExclusive (before than he spent many years as a senior buyer st David Jones). But after so many years seeing countless new products for the home, in his own home, Garth is measured with his decorating approach. He isn’t one for excess decorative fluff – this is a guy who covets and buys key pieces, or restores antique finds, rather than fill his home with too many trinkets.
Above all, it’s the unique sense of history and character here that Garth loves most about this home. ‘I really love the size and feeling of space in the rooms – it’s a feeling that I think is missing from more modern apartments’ says Garth. ‘While I understand the whole movement to open plan living, I also really love that each room in my home stands on its own. I also love that I’m completely surrounded by trees – I’m only 5 minutes from the centre of Sydney, but really I could be anywhere, it’s just so peaceful.’
Big thanks to Garth for sharing his home with us today!
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