The Design Files

10 stories

The Design FilesBefore + After: How This Renovated Melbourne Home Kept Its Victorian Soul Before + After: How This Renovated Melbourne Home Kept Its Victorian Soul Interiors by Christina Savopoulos Cabinetry in Olivine, Paperbark, Kalamata + Austral Oak by Laminex .

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The Design FilesRomantic Interiors Are Trending, Here’s How To Get The Look In Your Home Romantic Interiors Are Trending, Here’s How To Get The Look In Your Home Interiors Lauren Li Victoria House by Tali Roth Designs . The kitchen is painted in Porter’s Paints Whisk.

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The Design FilesHow Colour Gave This Single-Brick Victorian A New Lease On Life How Colour Gave This Single-Brick Victorian A New Lease On Life Architecture + Interiors by Christina Savopoulos Cantilever Interiors K1 Kitchen System. Laminex cabinets in Silver Grey.

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The Design FilesA Landscape Designer’s Advice For Starting Your Garden This Spring A Landscape Designer’s Advice For Starting Your Garden This Spring Gardens by Christina Karras Oak Cottage by Tim Pilgrim is a country garden that mirrors the wild and diverse planting of untouched…

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The Design FilesAn Interior Stylist’s 1940s California Bungalow Hits The Market An Interior Stylist’s 1940s California Bungalow Hits The Market On The Market by Christina Savopoulos Custom paint colour by Tint , available on request. Rugs from Etsy.

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The Design FilesA Modern Cottage-Inspired Renovation For An Artist’s Family Home A Modern Cottage-Inspired Renovation For An Artist’s Family Home Interiors by Christina Savopoulos Calacatta Gold honed stone benches, shelving and splashback from Baasar Stone .

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The Design FilesInside A Melbourne Family Home Inspired By Japanese Cooking + Culture Inside A Melbourne Family Home Inspired By Japanese Cooking + Culture Homes by Christina Karras Meg Tanaka, co-founder and food director of CIBI.

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The Design FilesThis Designer’s 40-Square-Metre Apartment Is An Ode To Colour + Pattern This Designer’s 40-Square-Metre Apartment Is An Ode To Colour + Pattern Architecture + Interiors by Christina Savopoulos Art is Commissioned Triptych Set by Gabrielle Lee Boshier.

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The Design FilesBefore + After: A Character-Filled Kitchen, Inside A Converted Sydney Mansion Before + After: A Character-Filled Kitchen, Inside A Converted Sydney Mansion Interiors by Christina Karras The renovated kitchen features art deco-style windows and Victorian detailing, revealing…

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The Design FilesFor Sale: A Beloved Art Deco Home In Balaclava For Sale: A Beloved Art Deco Home In Balaclava On The Market by Christina Savopoulos This art deco home is located in Balaclava’s heritage precinct, nearby shops, gardens and transport.

10.12

A room is a decision about how you want to be tired at the end of the day.

I live in forty-eight square metres in Tokyo with one good chair and far too many bowls, so I have had to mean that. I trained as an architect and left to write, which my teachers took badly. Uchi (内) means inside, and it means home: the room you come back to. The palette comes after the tiredness. So does the name on the lamp.

This is where I keep what the world's rooms are doing. Around seventy sources, read in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Italian, French and English: an apartment in Seoul, a house outside Taipei, a Copenhagen showroom seen from here rather than from Denmark. East first, because east is where I am sitting.

Each story is a headline, an excerpt of a few lines, one photograph and a link to whoever did the work. We never reprint the piece, and the photograph belongs to the person who took it. When a room was written up in Korean or Italian it stays in Korean or Italian here; the link takes you to the writer's own words.

I am not trying to be complete. I am trying to notice.

— Mio Tachibana, Tokyo