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Homes

Australian houses, from architectural masterpieces to suburban family homes, Victorian terraces, mid-century marvels, coastal shacks, city apartments, and everything in between.

Architecture

Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects.

Interiors

Award-winning Australian interior design, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top designers.

Gardens

In depth features on Australia’s most beautiful gardens and landscape design.

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Studio visits with Australia’s most talented creatives, from artists to architects, ceramicists to stylists, furniture makers to lighting designers.

Art

Studio visits with Australia’s top artists, and unmissable art exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and beyond.

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The Good Room

The Good Room

An Interior Designer's Grand Good Room

Cameron Kimber's comfortable yet grand 'Good Room' in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales.

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The Good Room

A Magazine Maven's Sentimental Good Room In The Southern Highlands

Former head of Vogue Living and Monocle magazines, Robyn Holt shares her 'Good Room' at home in regional NSW, layered with pieces collected

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The Good Room

A Stylist's Good Room In South Yarra's Most Coveted Apartment Building!

Heather Nette King shows us around 'THE room' in her apartment in Melbourne's Beverly Hills apartment complex.

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Rose Chong's Fabulous Rooftop (With Pool!) In Fitzroy!

Fitzroy's costume queen shares her unexpected rooftop haven, above her Fitzroy shop.

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Fitz-Royalty Tracey Lester's Technicoloured Dream Home!

Lisa Marie Corso visits the 'Good Room' of one of Melbourne's most dazzling hospitality entrepreneurs.

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A Family Palazzo In Essendon

Today we're excited to launch a brand new column, authored by our brilliant erstwhile Managing Editor (2011-2016) – Lisa Marie Corso!

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