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Mid-century modern we love you
Douglas Snelling Webbed Lounge Chairs changed Australian living rooms from the mid 1940s – here they set off an interior in concrete and ply
Natural advantage
The floor is your home's largest surface – with the biggest impact. A Kährs wood floor adds a warm, natural character to your interiors that you'll appreciate every day – available from The Wooden Floor Company now
One-stop elegance
Want to dramatically lift your kitchen's game with one power inclusion? Beautiful marble benchtops complete this refined, hard-working kitchen
Wow factor is overused (but not here)
Walls and floor are awash with spectacular black and white marble in this design by internationally renowned interior architect Stéphanie Coutas
Passive/impressive! Energy efficient climate control is a feature of this home
Passive control over your indoor spaces saves energy and makes your home greener. Energy efficiency was part of the brief for this home, with louvre wind...
Making the most of everything
Brave and daring, The Barnhaus has been innovatively designed to ensure that every room is used every day and no space is wasted.
FaceStation
Want to apply makeup or titivate but there’s no room on the vanity proper and the dressing area is too dark? One solution is a dedicated makeup station, as in this rural bathroom by designers Yellowfox
This unnerving game lodge lets visitors feel they have skin in the game
The open, seamless boundaries between interior and exterior for this South African game lodge have the effect of immersing guests in their environment rather tha...
Want demure cabinetry? Go to the wall
Building out the wall and setting kitchen cabinets and appliances back into the wall plane is one way to balance presence with subtlety in your open-plan scheme – as with this design by Bijl Architects,...
A pre-match pint in a dingy pub? I don't think so
As a way to monetise beyond sporting events, Tottenham Hotspur stadium has a micro brewery – the Dispensery – on site.
The suspense is thrilling me
A suspended fixture adds a sculptural element and provides specific task lighting in the double height kitchen area of this family home
Materials choices were key in this pride-of-place kitchen
While this kitchen needed to tie in with the semi-industrial aesthetic of the rest of the home, designer Leonie Metger’s extensive use of timber veneer for tall cabinetry softens...