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Stalking on a Saturday

I'm stalking another wonderful example of the imperfectly perfect or is that the perfectly imperfect? All I know is the location is perfect, Avalon in the Northern Beaches/Pittwater area of Sydney....

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Bright and bold ...

... and Brazilian. Apartment living that is fun and fab. I love the design coming out of Brazil. A mix of cutting edge contemporary and retrolicious with a riot of colour and art. It's young and fresh...

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Just a little bit more

I love neutrals. I really, really do. But sometimes ... I need ... just a little bit ... more colour! Fabulous interiors from neutral to super saturated by Landy Gardner Interiors.

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Monday's pets on furniture

If you'd like to send me photos to include in next week's "pets on furniture" post, please ensure your photos follow my basic rules: First, the pet must be on a piece of furniture. And said piece of...

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Sanna Linberg

I'm loving the bohemian & Scandi vide of these interiors, beautifully captured by Swedish photographer Sanna Lindberg.

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Stalking on the floor

I like my brick old and tumbled and recycled and on the floor. I would sell my first born, if I had one, for a warehouse space like this where the brick was underfoot, heavy old beams above and walls...

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Domenic Alvaro and the Small House

Rising up like a sturdy weed in a pavement crack. A spindly, winding shoot of a building reaching for the sun between the city structures. An ultra-compact concrete vertical house over 3 levels in...

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A Malibu beach pad

I am a new huge fan of Ryan White Designs. He is based in Los Angeles and his fresh, youthful style rocks. Ryan White has always had a passion for understated, clean, rich and comfortable living...

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A Hollywood Hills home

Here's another project by Ryan White Designs that knocked my socks off. So effortless yet SO COOL. It's like Ryan ran out to his favourite vintage shops and was like BAM, here's your new house that...

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Even the urban cool have sofas

A few days ago I posted an edgy inner city pad by Nicholas Gurney. Comment was made about the lack of a sofa and a TV. Back came the retort that a funky inner city type would be so busy leading a...

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Stalking small on a grand scale

I can't help it. I'm still stalking. Still stalking Potts Point in Sydney. Still stalking small apartments. Still stalking the urban cool or in this case the urban sophisticated. A wonderfully dark,...

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Justin Coit

Justin Coit is a Los Angeles based photographer whose portfolio is a dream. Besides having snapped the mug of many celebrities, his interior photos are fantastic. I'm a fan of high contrast,...

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Anonymous Architects

"It’s hard to spot an Anonymous house. And that’s the way we like it."That is what drew me to Anonymous Architects, based in Los Angeles. Their designs are unfussy, functional and unpretentious. For...

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Caravan

Shipping pallets and containers. An outdoors art space temporarily created for the 2012 Brisbane Festival.  A performance and exhibition space where the building materials were borrowed from sponsors...

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Pearl Valley 276

Barefoot luxury. That's what the owners, a young family, wanted when they asked South African based ANTONI ASSOCIATES to design the interiors of their recently purchased home. Stone and marble play...

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Margarida's weekend home in Portugal

I am in awe of this weekend home submitted by a reader named Margarida. Here is a bit of info she included: Its located 13 kms from the little village monsaraz & alqueva big lake in the region of...

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Dutch Design Year

Marleen wrote us about a shop in the Netherlands called Dutch Design Year and while we try to stay away from blogging products, these shots are fantastic so I thought I'd break our rule this time...

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Nik Epifanidis

An eye for it. That's what we say. He has an eye for it. And photographer Nik Epifanidis does. A graphic eye, an eye for colour. Beautiful shots of beautiful spaces but with a natural eye. No fuss...

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These are for you

I just wanted to say thanks for dropping by each day. This blog has taken me on such a wonderful journey and given me my creative moxy back. So much so I have done something very exciting and a little...

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Hotel Alexandra

A big thanks to one of our readers, Kris from Vancouver, who just got back froma month in Europe (hate you!). Kris spent a bit of time in Copenhagen and stayed at this incredible hotel called Hotel...

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