Hello! Yes please. Colour, personality and an exposed brick fireplace with great art. The only thing I don’t like about this kitchen is that there aren’t any more photos. By New York based Henry & Co Design.

“An elegant background for everyday living.” That’s what Brooklyn-based architectural firm Bangia Agostinho strive to create and I can’t get enough. This extensive renovation in Carroll Gardens takes the building back to its beautiful, simple bones and seamlessly inserts the perfect living space for a modern family so that traditional and contemporary complement and enhance.

Anyone else as besotted with deVOL kitchens as I am? Beautiful, handcrafted, traditional but up to anything that modern day life throws at them. Love.

There’s something subliminal going on with my posts so far this week. Beach houses and holiday rental accommodation, accommodation and houses by the sea. Perhaps I need some time off? A holiday in a beach house? Or perhaps it’s just where the interwebs have taken me this week. Like this beautiful home at Onetangi Beach by New Zealand design firm Sumich Chaplin Architects. Open the doors and drink in that view.

Photography by Simon Devitt

The latest from Australia’s premiere luxury holiday accommodation purveyor, Contemporary Hotels, has me hankering for a little escape to Sydney. This light filled two bedroom corner apartment in a warehouse conversion in Surry Hills by Infinite Design would be a stylish inner city base to explore the sights and tastes of this exciting city. I can’t pack my bags fast enough.