Julia’s Sumptuous Sticky Date Pudding With Butterscotch Sauce! If there’s one dessert that never fails to delight, it’s sticky date pudding with butterscotch sauce — it’s salty, sweet and creamy (if you serve it with ice cream, which we highly recommend).
Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s version hits those rich caramel notes with dark brown sugar, dark muscovado sugar and Medjool dates.
Make it for your family, make it for friends, make it for yourself — it’s just that good!
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A Transportable Off-Grid Dwelling On A Breathtaking Tasman Peninsula Site The communal facilities at a classic Australian camping ground are usually contained to an uninspiring and strictly utilitarian concrete block.
In this new project, Saxon Hall Architecture have flipped the topology on its head, creating gorgeously-appointed communal dining, bathing, and cooking facilities that capture their stunning location on Tasmania’s Tasman Peninsula.
The modular building was constructed offsite, before being transported from Victoria to Tasmania, and craned onto the land.
This construction method eliminates concrete and site disturbance, allowing the off-grid dwelling to be removed and relocated as desired.
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A Tactful + Light Sydney Cottage Transformation Passersby would be unaware of the transformation that’s recently occurred inside this Leichhardt, Sydney home.
The original single-storey house was dark and bursting at the seams, but a modest upper level (concealed from the street) by Lintel Studio for Architecture has freed up the ground floor to do less, better.
Generous floor-to-ceiling openings invite natural light, shadow play, and ventilation in a manner reminiscent of Luis Barragán — a nod to the architect Emiliano Miranda’s Mexican heritage.
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Why Organic, Imperfect Curves Are What Your Interior Needs Every year Milan Design Week attracts design lovers from all over the globe, eager to uncover new trends and brands to watch. Luckily, thanks to social media, you don’t have to physically attend Milan Design Week to spot what’s hot.
Interior designer Lauren Li, of Sisalla, scrolled, saved and sifted through countless feeds to pull out the key trends of Milan Design Week, and here she breaks down one of her favourites; organic forms and pebble-inspired shapes.
See her tips and furniture picks from The Directory below!
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This Family’s Perfectly-Sized Party House Nods To 1950s Architecture In the 50s and 60s, American property developer Joseph Eichler brought his own take on mid-century modern architecture to middle-class suburbia, building more than 11,000 homes across California.
These properties are still revered today, even serving as the inspiration behind a new house in Melbourne’s north called Home Pavilion.
MRTN Architects took cues from the enduring Eichler homes to create a robust and functional home that can accommodate a growing family, who loves to throw a party.
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