Oh goodness! Oh double goodness. Double gosh. Double great and double double got to have. Two French apartments, St. Honoré and Faidherbe by Parisian architects Flora de Gastines & Anne Geistdoerfer of double g. Sophisticated and contemporary, colourful and clever. I’m hyperventilating I love these spaces so much.

It’s a lovely day. Why aren’t you out in the sunshine? (OK I know it’s night time for some of you.) I’m spending my Saturday helping a friend at a vintage clothing fair. Secretly I’m hoping to find lots of treasure for myself. I have no segue from vintage fairs on a sunny day to a stunning Toorak house found whilst stalking but I don’t need one. What an amazing home! Anyone know the designer? Anyone want to buy it for me? Link here while it lasts.

You have seen snippets of it before. Admired it in magazines. It is littered through the portfolios of leading photographers. It’s a confection of girliness, a collection of the beautiful and the kitsch, covetable to the max, contagious in its quirkiness and a compilation of inspiring rooms. It’s the home of stylist Marianne Cotterill. It’s Mapesbury Road, London. Photography by Oliver Perrott.

Wonder. Inspiration and delight. Transformations. Adventure. Journeys and delivery. Passion and performance. Fascination, appreciation and execution. The wonder that is Wonder, a Melbourne based interior architecture firm founded by Georgina Jeffries and Pip McCully. Two homes, one in Armadale, one in Prahran. Eclectic materials, textures, light flooding in, clean lines and attention to the client’s needs. Modern yet timeless.

P.S. If you think you recognise some of the images from the first home then you do. The photographer was Paul Barbera whose work I recently featured (here). The second house was shot by Christine Francis.

The latest house by Nils Finne is perched on the shore of the Hood Canal, a long, fjord-like arm of Puget Sound in Washington State. Opening up the mostly glazed living space gives the compact 2400 SF space the feel of a large front porch facing the water. Anchoring the north end of the living space is a two-story building volume containing several bedrooms and separate his/her office spaces. Simple yet elegant finishes make this more than a lake front cabin though. A special place far from the madding crowd but definitely not far from creature comforts. It’s this sustainable “richness” and well as a strong sense of place that FINNE Architects bring to life in all their projects.