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Home & Garden

Inside & out: breathe easy and warm up your patio with a stylish fire pit

The latest in news, trends and happenings for the home... Lively Living’s latest diffuser and vaporiser range promises to bring holistic health and to save ourselves from the chill, a steel firepit from LuxoLiving is the perfect outdoor feature.

Colour of the moment: Pretty in Pink

A splash of dusty rose or a sprinkle of millennial pink is a trendy way to modernise and feminise your space, without overloading. Check out these blushing homewares that will add a touch of strawberry kisses vibes into your stylish contemporary home.

Create a cosy and comfy book nook

One of winter’s simple pleasures is curling up on a comfy couch with some fuzzy socks, a snuggly blanket, a hot cuppa, and a good old-fashioned book. Creating a comforting book nook in your home is the quintessential way to enjoy a cold and rainy winter’s day.

Bridgerton-inspired wisteria interiors

Bridgerton season 2 has once again sent all Netflix-aholics into a frenzy of Wedgewood Blue, luxurious stylings, and sumptuous regency furnishings. We’ve compiled a Bridgerton-inspired homewares selection with contemporary twists so you too can live like the ostentatious Featheringtons.

How to create ambience using lighting

An often overlooked yet essential feature, lighting is a simple way you can either make or break the ambience of a room. Here’s a selection of ambient lighting fixtures and lamps to spark your inspiration.

Runway to home: Adut Akech

From a Kenyan refugee camp to an international supermodel, Adut Akech is a Sudanese-Australian fashion icon. This week, CW has transformed the goddess’s top looks into a fit-for-a-celeb home makeover, top model-style.

Give the gift of craft this Mother’s Day

Looking for a gift you can handmake for Mum this Mother’s Day? Look no further! CW has found five cute, easy, and sustainable crafts that the kids will love to make themselves.  

5 free or affordable ways to spoil Mum

Mother’s Day is this Sunday (8 May), and not everyone is willing or able to fork out for a spa day or fancy dinner. Truth be told, these celebratory occasions can happily...

Mother’s Day homewares gift guide

Whatever your budget, here are some Mother’s Day gift ideas for mums who like nice things around the home.

Food2Soil creates food waste fertiliser right here in Canberra

Over 28,150 cups of coffee, 1,820kg of food waste, and 3,458kg of CO2 emissions saved from being dumped in landfill and polluting our atmosphere. That’s Food2Soil’s environmental legacy so far – and they’ve only just begun.

Local glass artist Ngaio puts broken pieces back together

Canberra glass artist Ngaio Fitzpatrick took the initial leap into her artistic career with a degree in fashion design, spurred on by her innate inner desire to create.

Inside & out: Zero Waste Fest, Easter scents, and autumn gardening

The latest in news, trends and happening for the home... Check out the O'Connor Community Open Day, find out the best Autumn gardening tips, try a delicious Easter scent pack, and head down to the Zero Waste Festival.

Blue Sky House renovation revitalises 1960s cottage

A charming cottage nestled within a leafy, tree-filled garden in a quiet cul-de-sac is where you’ll discover the Blue Sky House, originally built in the 1960s. The renovation transforming it into a light-filled contemporary family home, is nothing short of wondrous.

Home renovation feature 2022

Check out the advertisers in this special Home Renovation feature to find out how they can help optimise your investment and bring your ideas to life.

5 egg-cellent Easter activity ideas

Desperately searching for activities to keep the kids occupied this Easter long weekend? Look no further! We've complied a list of both indoor and outdoor projects, crafts, and self-motivated activities that will keep the kids entertained for hours.

Inside & out: Tony Penguin, saturated wall colour, and M + Co Living

The latest in news, trends and happening for the home … Tony Penguin is helping fight MND, it's time to bring back saturated wall colour with Jono Flemming, and M + Co Living's new beside table range is reinvigorating the bedroom.

Autumn in Canberra is for composting, turn garden ‘waste’ into gold

Composting is the process of decomposing household and garden ‘waste’ into nutrient-rich soil improver, using minimal output (that is, human labour), for maximum gain (enviously abundant, healthy plant life).

Easter egg crafts

This Easter, we’ve gone for a twist on the classic dyed Easter eggs – using foam and papier mache – thanks to two craft projects from Spotlight! Hang your finished eggs around the home, or decorate a tree outside, to celebrate the Easter season.

Inside & out: world’s first recycled collectable toy, and Dandelion

The latest in news, trends and happening for the home... recycled collectable toys for the kids and Bonnie and Neil's latest collection, Dandelion, is as sweet as honey.

1920s homewares in 2022

We’re bringing art deco back, baby! Now that we’ve hit the twenties again, it’s only appropriate to flaunt some of that retro décor so you can bring 1922 into 2022.

Homewares redolent of autumn in Canberra

To celebrate the turn of the season, CW has compiled a range of homewares matching the cosiness of the climate that will spice up your space.

Homemade citrus garlands

A perfectly delightful way to incorporate the ambience of autumn into your space is with aromatic citrus garlands hanging around your home.

Runway to home: Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus has been strutting her stuff for over a decade. CW has transformed this pop-star’s top looks into a home makeover, Miley-style.

Inside & out: ReJeaneration and a dash of kitchen colour

The latest in news, trends and happenings for the home … Linen House launches ReJeaneration and add a dash of colour to your kitchen.

Colour of the moment: Mulled wine

A spiced wine served with raisins on a frosty winter’s night has re-emerged as a stylish colour trend perfect for your home: Mulled Wine.

Creating a safe space at home

Canberran Instagrammer, Gina Ciancio @stylecuratorau, shares with Canberra Daily her top five ways to create a safe space at home.

Granny Chic

If you’re looking for vintage homewares, there’s no better place than snooping through your Granny’s house for some Granny Chic décor inspo!

The ‘ideal city’: a history of Canberra’s architecture

Canberra’s architecture tells the intricate story of the ‘ideal city’, encompassing mid-century modernism to create our national capital.

Inside & out: garden watering tips, colourful homes are back

The latest in news, trends and happenings for the home... garden watering tips and colourful homes are back!

Be my Valentine

Valentine’s Day is nearing, so consider surprising your love with inspiration from these heavenly vintage and uniquely artistic gifts.
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