… if it is just as perfect when the peace is broken by running kids, demanding cats and the remains of dinner. Perhaps but for now it’s just lovely. Flynn-Howe Kitchen by Project M+.

A restrained and elegant palette married with touches of luxury, an 80s reference paired with an Art Deco riff, decidedly masculine with a tempering of femininity. Subtle, sophisticated, sexy. East Melbourne renovation by Flack Studio.

Photography by Brooke Holm and Marsha Golemac.

When student hijinx, a football and a fire sprinkler necessitated a refit of the Masters Office in the historic Ormond College at the University of Melbourne, Nest Architects designed a modern yet classic space. Timeless, practical, elegant. You know what I say. If you have to work on a Saturday then it should be somewhere that looks great.

I’m running away from Christmas. Who else is in? And I’m not escaping to a hip, happening must do destination… or am I? For a long time many of our nations’ capitals have got a bad wrap. Dull, boring hubs of government and not much else. Just ask Kim. She lives in Ottawa. Things are changing, at least in Australia’s national capital Canberra. How much more hip and happening can the new Hotel Hotel get? So cool it’s positively frosty… that’s if it wasn’t so hot. Anyone else want to run to Canberra? At least until Christmas is over?

There’s still a connection. Great style. Simple beauty. A masculine take for this Westlake apartment by Brian Paquette Interiors, Seattle, Washington.