We call it a cubby in Australia. A children’s playhouse usually knocked together by your dad in the backyard, cobbled together with whatever is to hand or, if your lucky in kit form from a hardware store. But my cubbies were never as much fun as these beauties from Melbourne- based Castle and Cubby. How cute! A farmer’s market stall or a beach hut. Made from recycled materials no two are ever the same. For sale in all sorts of configurations or you can rent them for a party. OK , OK I promise I’ll go back to grown-up spaces in my next post. I just couldn’t resist all the cuteness.

The perfect place. You know it. That house, that interior, the furniture you dream about and hope one day to own. The place that whispers to your soul. “Come find me.” Well I found mine in, of all places, Montauk, Long Island and it’s by Robert McKinley.

It’s like I say time and again. If you have to drag your sorry self into work on a Saturday then it certainly helps if it’s somewhere stylish. Like this wonderful space by Elizabeth Roberts Architecture & Design.

“The Journee/COLAB space is located in a typical lower Manhattan office building. The program for the space was unusual as the client created a new business model requiring offices, library, classroom, kitchen, casual meeting spaces and a conference room.”

Hello colour. Hello stripes. Hello vintage and hello new. San Francisco interior designer Alison Damonte calls it a “design lab” but she also calls it home. Design lab? No it’s design fab.

Photography by Bruce Damonte

Oh yes dreams are made of homes like this. San Francisco architects YamaMar have breathed new life into this mid century home in the Berkeley Hills, enhancing the indoor/outdoor living and upgrading finishes. Then Alison Damonte worked her magic, staging the home with a subtle mix of mid century and modern pieces accentuated by bright colour pops.

Photography by Bruce Damonte