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Libby and Tom Owen Edmunds at their dining table, under a lamp with porcelain leaves by Kris Coad. The painting above Libby’s head is Blowfly Dreaming by Kimberley artist Tracey Ramsay.

This Darling Point apartment is an exercise in combining colour and texture

Two intrepid travellers combine their love of Asia with spectacular Sydney Harbour views.

  • Susan Redman

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Sellers in Melbourne’s prestige property market are spending top dollar to stand out from the crowd,

How Melburnians are paying up to $45,000 to style their homes for sale

With more homes for sale and buyers taking longer to make up their minds, sellers are spending top dollar to stand out from the crowd in a bid to get deals done.

  • Elizabeth Redman
Vendors of Sydney’s prestige homes are paying big bucks for property styling.

The Sydneysiders paying up to $75,000 to style their homes for sale

Vendors of high-end homes see the financial return in property styling and are sparing no expense in extended sales campaigns to stand out in the market.

  • Kristy Johnson
Nina Maya says high-end clients want wellness features at home that promote healing.

Day spas in the backyard, and other luxury home design trends for 2025

Day spas, sensory showers, electromagnetic fields, concealed cooktops, colour drenching and more are in hot demand.

  • Kristy Johnson
Why can’t hotel technology be simple?

I just want to watch something on my hotel room TV. Why is it so hard?

This simple pleasure has turned into a palaver that makes me long for the violently expensive halcyon days of pay-per-view in hotel rooms.

  • Mark C. O’Flaherty
Reginald Grouse’s modernist dwelling doesn’t scream for attention like many modern homes.

The story of Reginald Grouse and his very cool house

This Japanese-inspired two-storey brick house – designed by architect Reginald Grouse more than 60 years ago – remains a thing of beauty decades later.

  • Stephen Crafti
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The sunken lounge is almost ‘buried’ into the garden.

Family compound escapes demolition, becomes elegant home

Large home plots in Melbourne’s blue-chip Toorak tend to be a prime target for demolition.

  • Stephen Crafti
“It was the perfect spot to create a new open-plan kitchen and living area,” said architect Matthew Woodward.

Living in the ’70s: Reinventing a Bayview beach house

The decade was defined by great music, cheap fuel and homes with open-plan living, but this residence missed out on that last key attribute.

  • Stephen Crafti
“We have regular movie nights and reconfigure the Eva sofa into a big bed so we can stretch out,” says Banfield. The wall colour is “Lampoon” by Dulux and the artwork at left is by Stacey Rees.

Peek inside an interior designer’s colour-filled home in Melbourne

A roomy rental in the south-eastern suburbs gets a fresh personality.

  • Heather Nette King
The riser of smaller homes.

The Sydney suburbs where home buyers pay top dollar for tiny blocks

Architects have come up with clever ways to live in terraces and small homes close to parks and playgrounds, and buyers are on board.

  • Kristy Johnson

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