Displaying posts labeled "Uncategorized"

Brisbane based interior designer and “new kid on the block” Georgia Cannon has breathed life into an old timber worker’s cottage. A crisp white shell is the canvas for splashes of bright colour. Simple and stylish and, believe it or not, for the rental market. Some tenants get great landlords it seems. A tight budget but a standout investment property.

Photography by Toby Scott.

You know the sort of place. It’s a tiny enclave just outside a major city. Up along the coastline. There are only a limited number of houses and hardly anyone sells. Fisherman’s shacks and family beach homes, the occasional misplaced McMansion. Little diamonds in the rough waiting to be transformed. Interior designer Brett Mickan has taken a simple, unpretentious holiday home and created a colourful beach retreat. Fun and fresh and stylish without being too precious. Just right for summer fun.

Can you guess where this apartment is located?

If you guessed Paris, you are correct. (That was easy) This 40m² apartment was renovated by architect Charlotte Vauvillier. 

Jo and I are fans of San Francisco interior designer Lauren Geremia. I blogged some bars and restaurants she designed here, and then Jo blogged a couple of homes last month. I found myself on her website the other day and found more residential eye candy to share – including the first several photos seen here of an Edwardian home in Palo Alto. I love that she mixes styles in a subtle way that somehow results in complete cohesion. (She’s pretty creative too – the art over the sofa above is textured Japanese paper that she pinned to the wall).

Here are a few extra bits from some of Urrutia Design‘s other projects, as I am now a big fan and can’t get enough.