Australia's Most Expensive Home

Do you have a spare $56m clogging up your bank account? If so, you may be interested in buying Australia's most expensive home (currently on the market).

Not surprisingly, this home is located on Wunulla Road in Point Piper. The interior was designed by Thomas Hamel. It has 8 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms and some gorgeous guest accommodation. It really is a spectacular home with stunning views right back to the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Ah, imagine the decisions to make if you owned this home....cocktails on the lawn, by the pool or on the roof terrace!?!

Busy, busy, busy...

I have been so busy of late and can't believe it is almost August! I am currently working on a number of really exciting projects and am really looking forward to the next few months and watching these projects come to fruition!

In the meantime, here are a few bits and pieces from the various projects.

First up is this AMAZING glass tile. This is one of the most beautiful tiles I have ever seen, it shimmers and throws a silvery aqua colour depending on the light. We are using this as a feature tile in one of my clients bathrooms.

Below is a great bubble chair, that would make a great addition to any contemporary room.

The below sofas are great low/high solutions for a living room

Bookshelves to flank a fireplace



Of course no design is complete without some fantastic lighting!

As you can probably tell from the images above, the projects I'm working on are quite varied which makes for a really interesting time and process. I'm looking forward to posting some updates and of course the finished products!

Please note - out of respect for my paying clients, I am not able to reveal product or source information on this blog.

Colour My World...

I remember a few years ago someone close to me asking me what I'll do with all our furniture and decor once I get sick of it. I remember at the time thinking "what on earth are you talking about, this IS who I am and what I like, why would I want to change it".

The older I get, the more I realise that we have core beliefs and we have a core style. The other bits and pieces can change as we get older and change. For me, my preferred core style is classic-contemporary, it always has been and I'm quite sure it always will be. I guess the 'contemporary' part of that equation means that I can change things to keep our home decor feeling up to date (whatever that means at the time). Another massive change I've noticed in myself is my LOVE of colour. I can't quite explain how much I want to immerse myself in all the colour and pattern possible and when I say colour I'm not talking pretty pastels, I'm talking major, bold, vivid pops of colour! I'm thinking bold turquoise or fuchsia couches and heavily patterned accent chairs. I find it energising and invigorating and a perfect reflection of my little family.

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Design by Candice Olson



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Tobi Fairley

The Lennox

Style At Home

Style At Home

Warwick Fabric - Alhambra

Ah, writing this blog post has made me even more determined to get even more colour into our world!

Things I Love at the Moment

I love it when I get some free time to browse the various design blogs and sites out there and see what beautiful products are being created all around the world. Here are a couple of the stunning products I've recently come across.



Watercolour Wallpaper

Most people who know me, know that two of my favourite things in interiors are watercolours and wallpaper. So it was of absolutely no surprise whatsoever that when I stumbled across this watercolour wallpaper designed by Black Crow Studios, I was instantly in love! The vibrant colour and fluid form are just beautiful.

Images Sourced from: The Lennoxx

Designers Guild Tableware

Now onto my next favourite product. Designers Guild have recently released their new range of tableware. I'm really fussy about the type of mug I like to drink from and always prefer stoneware over any other type. Designers Guild Saraille Aqua stoneware combines stoneware with my favourite colour (aqua) and then to top it off they have designed it in an ombre way, effectively making it my absolute favourite tableware EVER!

This tableware will definitely be on my list of purchases for Summer!

KAS Australia Sale

This is just a quick post to let you all know that KAS Australia are having a massive one week sale, on now!

KAS are Australian designers and manufacturers of some of the most beautiful and fashionable soft furnishings on the market. Stop by their website and have a look, you may pick yourself up a great bargain!

www.kasaustralia.com.au

White Out...

Now that our house is on the market, I've been getting some ideas together for what our new interior may end up looking like. My previous post included images of certain features I like, but now I'm thinking about colour, or more appropriately lack thereof!

When we renovated our current home I was heavily pregnant. We moved into our home in the April and I had our youngest daughter in the first week of July. I'm not sure if pregnancy affects everyone in the same way it affected me, but I could NOT make a decision to save my life! Thankfully my Mum was around to force help me make the decisions I needed to when they needed to be made. The strangest thing that happened to me over that time though was that I wanted everything in warm tones. Now I'm not and never have been, a warm tone person and even with my Mum bringing that fact to my attention time and again I was adamant that my tastes had changed and I wanted everything warm. I have been happy with the colour scheme in our home, but now I'm starting to dream of crisp whites with blue/green accents for Summer and grey accents for Winter.

Chic Coastal Living

Little Green Notebook

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BHG

Chic Coastal Living

Evolution of Style

Style At Home

I just love how fresh and bright cool white interiors are. I realise some people may find them a little chilly feeling on a gloomy Winter day, but a lovely roaring fire is the perfect remedy for that!

Florence Broadhurst...taking the US by storm!

Florence Broadhurst was born in Queensland, Australia in 1899. By the time of her death in 1977 she had lived in Australia, Asia and England, performed professionally on stage, been befriended by royalty, exhibited her paintings and started an internationally successful wallpaper company based on her own designs. She was considered to be years ahead of her time, complex, eccentric and talented.

Decades later the Florence Broadhurst designs are taking the US by storm! The designs are being featured through Kate Spade New York. In Australia, Signature Prints owns the rights to the Florence Broadhurst designs and they produce everything from her famous wallpapers to fabrics.

Cockatoos

Japanese Floral Design Curtains

Kabuki

Horses Stampede

Japanese Floral

Japanese Floral Rug

I don't think anyone can deny Florence Broadhurst was light years ahead of her time. If you are in Australia and love these designs, pop over to Signature Prints to pick up the fabrics or wallpaper of your choice.

If you are in the US you can purchase Florence Broadhurst designs on everything from playing cards and post cards, to a new dress, hat or dinnerset! Simply search the Kate Spade website for Florence Broadhurst.

*All images and information for this post were sourced from Signature Prints