Let's face it: Rugs are an essential piece that every person needs in their home. Just imagine walking into a space without any textiles on the floor. It's going to automatically feel a bit bare and off-putting. Whether your apartment has beautiful herringbone wood...
Black is back—in the bathroom, that is. This dramatic trend of decorating with a primarily black color palette in your powder room is having a...
The Ordinary has revolutionised skincare, offering high-quality formulas with effective ingredients at affordable prices and, since their launch in 2017, have quickly achieved cult status throughout the beauty community. Following on from the release of their first Squalane Cleanser...
Ancient Rome borrowed from ancient Greece for architecture, among other things, but then innovated and invented its own architectural features and building types. Roman architecture made a statement with its imposing public edifices: We are a world power, and...
The rooms are smaller than a parking space, but how does the newest thing on the Auckland housing market really measure up? The hostel-like accommodation, called The Coh, made headlines in June for essentially being a upmarket dorm for adults...
The prinicpal at Duet Design Group opens the doors to her family-friendly Virginia Village home, a de facto design laboratory that abides by one cardinal rule: Make it your own.
By Kathryn O'Shea-Evans | 5280 Home August/September 2018
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As clichéd as it may sound, “East meets West” perfectly sums up both Nicole Shaw and the Happy Valley flat she shares with her husband, Martin, and their two young children. Shaw, whose mother is Chinese and father English,...
Smaller houses are an opportunity to see what can be done to transform modest accommodation into a spacious, family-friendly home, writes Carol O’CallaghanI’M SUFFERING from a severe dose of pantry envy, exacerbated by symptoms known in the interiors business...
From sliding glass doors and floor-to-ceiling glass partition walls to Crittall-style room dividers and extensions, glass ceilings, glass roofs and even glass flooring, there’s plenty of modern and contemporary inspiration when it comes to using glass in the home.
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