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Category: Design & Advice
Winter restoration: how to keep your garden healthy through the cool months
The cooler winter weather might signal nature’s annual break, but in fact it’s the best time to do those garden jobs you’ve been putting off all year – and more besides.
How to embrace minimalism in your interiors
As sustainability increasingly becomes a byword in our homes, the idea of owning less is also gaining traction. But how do regular families embrace the minimalist lifestyle?
Three great ideas for using masonry blocks in your outdoor space
Masonry blocks have never been so popular for backyard builds thanks to their bold look, structural heft and useful versatility.
Classic Blue: How to bring Pantone’s Colour of the Year into your home
Pantone describes its Classic Blue as a timeless, enduring shade that instills calm and creates connection. Here, ideas for adding a little blue hue to your life. After 2018’s bold Ultra Violet and 2019’s vivid Living Coral, Pantone, one of the world’s great authorities on colour, has chosen a perennial blue shade as its 2020
Currently trending: Home Beautiful’s Katrina O’Brien on the best looks trending now
WHAT ARE THE BIGGEST INTERIORS TRENDS OF 2020? Home Beautiful’s Katrina O’Brien gives her verdict Every day a new batch of gorgeous houses, amazing new products and fabulous ideas from overseas crosses the desk of Katrina O’Brien, managing editor of best-selling interiors magazine Home Beautiful. But what did she really love over the past 12 months?
Colours in the home: A Beginners’ Guide
Colour is an integral part of our lives – but do we really understand how it impacts us? Here, a colour expert shares her knowledge.
Tips for creating a great garden in a small space
Landscape designer Matt Leacy gives his six top tips on how to make the most out of your pocket-size garden.
It’s a natural: the hottest interior trends for the coming year
The natural world, bouclé and green… welcome to the biggest interiors trends of 2020 The dominant interior trends of 2020 are in and they all have something in common: satisfying our need to get closer to nature. Here are five of the biggest trends to keep an eye on in the new year. Go naturalAs
How cantilevered footings might save your retaining wall project
Creating a level backyard and installing a retaining wall in a Sydney home, hit complications when engineers hit rock. Here, how they found a solution. The hard reality of striking rock while constructing a retaining wall will be familiar to many an engineer and builder. Just when you think the ground will yield and the
