It’s like I say week after week. If you have to drag your sorry self into work on a Saturday then it certainly helps if it’s somewhere stylish. No problems if I worked in Melbourne-based Breathe Architecture‘s own offices. Just park my bicycle and head on up.

Photography by Peter Clarke

It’s a big call, dream kitchen, but the Arts and Crafts Kent Kitchen by London-based deVOL Kitchens is the stuff of my fantasies made real. From the shaker-style, dark blue cabinets to the white stone countertops, from the warm woods on the floor, table and island to the industrial lights, this wonderful family kitchen is now the inspiration for my own kitchen renovation in my 1860s home. Perfect, perfect, perfect… except my room is nowhere near as big… and I don’t have double height ceilings or walls of glorious windows but I do have a brick fireplace and a range, wooden floors and a big imagination.

White walls seem to be getting a bad rap this days. All those insipid white walls. There is nothing washed-out about this Swedish apartment though. Moody greys add depth and character, acting as a foil to all the Scandi white. A small 32 m² home with style and personality recently sold by Stockholm real estate brokers Historiska Hem.

We’ve had a sneak peek into this house before (Inside Out is out) but it’s time to see some more. Contemporary open plan with excellent transitions between inside and out, interesting use of materials, meticulous attention to detail and that dramatic black kitchen. A sophisticated, modern Australian home, Mosh House in Elwood, Melbourne by architectural studio Foong + Sormann.

Photography by Derek Swawell

I love this stylish contemporary family home with a mid century riff and loads of personality. Light and bright with great use of three quarter partition walls to divide spaces, the rooms flow easily into each other and the outdoors. The master suite is fabulous with a dressing room I’d kill for and “pool” in and outside the room. Ranch style redo done right by Los Angeles and Santa Barbara based Brown Design Group.