Window treatments
Find out how to dress up your window after the renovation... and don't bust the budget. Window dressings are usually the last thing to be decided upon when renovating or decorating a room and often where most of the budget is spent. Tara visits ... [... more]
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Springside Porcelain
Christine Bailey is a cake decorator by trade. While she still pipes and bakes, these days it's porcelain, not sponge cakes, she's popping in the oven. Fifteen years ago Christine Bailey enrolled herself in pottery classes. She loved making ... [... more]
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Santa Fe House
Our House takes a look at a modern Santa Fe-inspired home on the NSW central coast. This expansive four bathroom house of 67 squares has been standing for only one year and includes a pool, landscaped gardens and an impressive entranceway. Two ... [... more]
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Hypercolour bedroom
Bored with flat colour on your walls? Tara works a magical makeover with a new range of paint finishes. Remember when Hypercolour t-shirts were popular? Well now you can apply the same technique to your walls, changing the colour of your room to ... [... more]
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Framing Pictures
Prints, photos and paintings can really add style to a room. Their arrangement can often have as much impact as the pictures themselves. Here are some pointers on how to show them off to best advantage. A good way to display a family album is to ... [... more]
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Laminex Splashback Kitchen
If your kitchen is looking a bit tired, you can give it a brand-new look without breaking the bank. Here's how we modernised a kitchen that needed to move into the '90s. The general structure of the kitchen didn't need changing and surfaces such ... [... more]
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Kids Bathroom
Bright, bubbly, fun & happy - kids will really enjoy bathtime here and its safe! The Sweeneys plan to turn their outdated '70s bathroom into a clean and safe bathroom for their kids. They will incorporate a number of bright, fun products that can ... [... more]
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White Pebble Courtyard
A small, stark inner-city courtyard is cleverly and quickly transformed with the use of sculpture and ornaments, in this "Mediterranean-style" makeover. The courtyard is at the rear of an old Paddington, Sydney, terrace and it doubles as an ... [... more]
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Cloud room makeover
Isobelle has turned seven and feels her fairyland and teddy-bear bedroom needs an update. She has chosen a cloud theme and with some clever craft and a lick of paint, the transformation will be easier than you think. The style of the Austrian ... [... more]
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Christopher Cole House
Making maximum use out of limited space, professional Sydney architect Christopher Cole has completely transformed a tiny Georgian style dwelling into a contemporary home. Chris was given much freedom in his design and he set about changing the ... [... more]
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Canopy Bedroom Makeover
This bedroom was dressed up by creating a canopy, adding a new bedhead and installing some new curtains. The key to the new look was fabric. The colours were chosen to tie in with what was already in the room. The first job we tackled was the ... [... more]
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Decorator Rugs
With the current decorating trend moving away from wall-to-wall carpeting to hard surfaces "softened" with rugs, there is a huge and often confusing range of rugs available. So how do you go about buying one? Sydney store-owner, Robyn Cosgrove, [... more]
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