Love, love, love, love, love, love the portfolio of Amsterdam based, British photographer James Stokes. Won’t waffle on. No need too. Fab!

The original home is comforting to me. It resembles the Queenslander homes I have grown up with. But move through its original rooms, cross the “bridge” oven the ponds and what opens before you is a sleek, contemporary home. Modern, stylish, open plan. I’m stalking a Longueville, Sydney home by architects Marsh Cashman Koolloos that certainly is hiding a secret behind its old timber and tin facade. Old and new, open and enclosed, positive and negative space. I would love to see more photos or perhaps attend an open for inspection to make more sense of the space although you’ll be able to understand a little better from the floor plan. Link here while it lasts.

Down a narrow street in Surry Hills Sydney you will find this monochrome conversion of a former grocery warehouse by Ian Moore Architects. If you were a real life stalker you would find a melange of old bricks, new steel and glass but if you stalk the pages of online real estate sites you will see behind this intriguing facade. The award winning, one bedroom home unfolds over a number of staggered levels. Anything existing is white. Anything new is black. Austere yet refined, controlled yet creative. 19th century meets 21st, industrial becomes residential. Could you live here? Yes? Then follow the link while it lasts and perhaps you’ll be the new owner.

… if my room could be like any of these photographed by Julie Ansiau for Oeuf.

It has been a while since I had a little bit of a photographer crush but now I’ve got it bad. These photos are just so appealing, so enticing. I’m drawn in like a bee to a flower. Fresh, fun, colourful, bright. There’s whimsy and humour and joy and simplicity. Oh it’s like a drink of cold water. The name of my new crush? The photographer that has my pulse racing? Paris based photographer Julie Ansiau. Un portefeuille d’exception!