7 Costly Mistakes You’re Making In The Bathroom + How To Avoid Them Planning a bathroom renovation can be daunting — it’s one of those rooms where all your design decisions feel very permanent, so you want to make the right choices!
Below interior designer Lauren Li takes us through seven common and costly mistakes in bathroom design, and — more importantly — how to avoid them.
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12 Great Sofas For Small Spaces With the number of Australians living in apartments on the rise, there’s never been more demand for beautifully designed small sofas.
The following space-saving sofas are our pick of the bunch for their gorgeous lines and often clever additional features, such as modular pieces (meaning you can easily upsize down the track) and integrated beds.
By the way, you can find all these sofas and more in our Design Directory featuring The Design Files-approved products for your home!
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A Green Kitchen Breathes New Life Into This 150-Year-Old Terrace Built as part of a terrace row in around 1864, this Sydney home has been updated in a thoughtful renovation by BASE in collaboration with Hicks and Holmested.
The charming Redfern house now reveals a patchwork of old and new, where original sandstone brickwork meets a refreshingly contemporary kitchen with green-stained joinery, and light-filled interiors.
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A Sensitive Renovation Of A Modernist Home, With A Few Twists! Rachel Hurst and Richard Wharldall’s Kew home wasn’t necessarily lacking in layout, space or style. Still, the couple saw an opportunity to amp up the ‘modernist cred’ with geometry, colour, pattern and texture.
A clever renovation by Kennedy Nolan strengthens the mid-century charm established by its original architect, Charles Victor Dumbrell, in 1959, whilst adding a few delightful surprises.
Take a tour below!
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For Sale: A Century-Old California Bungalow, Immersed In Nature It takes creative foresight to look at a neglected home in need of some love and see a modern, light-filled family home. But that’s exactly what the owners of this century-old California bungalow had.
Working with Melbourne architects, Architektura, they completely repaired, renovated and revived the home, keeping its character but adding thoughtful and transformative modern touches.
Now, with an extension that invites the outdoors in with large windows, sliding doors and thriving fernery, the once neglected home is full of life.
See more of this home for sale below.
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