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5 Changes To Amp Up Your Cosiness At Home That Won’t Break The Bank

We’ve teamed up with AGL Energy to bring you a few tips and tricks to inspire you to bring joy and homely touches into your digs without breaking the bank. 

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4 Inexpensive Ways To Make Your Living Room A Luxurious Space To Hang Out

We’ve teamed up with IKEA to bring you easy and affordable ways to transform the look and feel of your living space on without breaking the bank.

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4 Genius But Affordable Hacks To Transform Your Bedroom Into A Joyous Retreat

We’ve teamed up with IKEA to guide you along your journey of creating the ultimate affordable, safe, and inviting space to unwind and recharge. 

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5 Hacks To Turn Your Dining Space Into An Entertainer’s Dream Without Breaking The Bank

We’ve teamed up with IKEA to bring you easy and affordable ways to transform the look and feel of your kitchen and dining space without breaking the bank. 

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Go From Dreaming To Doing With These 6 ‘Nook Looks’ Designed To Fuel Your Passions

From food and fashion to beauty and beats, here's the design inpso you need to help you make space for the things that matter most.

Things To Do

8 Must-Do Online And IRL Experiences At This Year’s IKEA Festival

Bring your wildest interior design fantasies to life at the mammoth IKEA Festival.

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Shop New Art From This Extensive Online Market And Support First Nations Artists

Find your new favourite artwork at Revealed, an online art market housing original, ethical artworks from more than 29 regional and remote WA Aboriginal art centres and emerging independent artists. 

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Melbourne Stylist And Creative Director Ella Murphy On The Future Of Fashion

As we edge our way closer to the final chapters of 2021, a year dominated by snap lockdowns and subsequent digital connectivity, we sat down with Melbourne stylist and creative director Ella Murphy to discuss the future of fashion. 

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Skip The Flowers And Spoil Her With This Mother’s Day Gift Guide

Frantically trying to find the perfect Mother’s Day gift for your mum, aunt, gran, or any other special women in your life? Take a deep breath and forget the frenzy—we’ve got you covered this year. 

Fashion

Grab Your Canvas Tote, Fish Lane Is About To Score A New Laneway Market

South Brisbane’s Fish Lane is soon to host a creators and designers market up and down the laneway. 

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How To Level Up Your Home Office Game To Enjoy Quality Moments, According To An Interior Stylist

We sat down with stylist Steve Cordony to chat all things interior design, how he feels about Gigi Hadid’s chaotic pasta cabinets, vintage Brad Pitt posters and ultimately, how to transform your space into a home office of your Pinterest dreams. 

Activities & Itineraries

Keep Your Hands Busy With This Home-Delivered DIY Pot Making Kit

We’ve teamed up with the minds behind Only T, who usually host BYO Tee Parties for screen printing and concrete pot making, to put together a home-delivered DIY pot making kit.

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Embrace Your Inner Artist, Here Are 8 Crafty Projects You Can Get Delivered

We’ve rounded up eight awesome locally made and delivered projects you can throw yourself into to send those iso blues out the door. Check out the list below, and prepare to get inspired. 

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Get Your Craft On With These Home-Delivered DIY Mosaic Terracotta Pot Kits

Dawdle’s mosaic terracotta pot craft boxes are filled with everything you need to decorate four mini terracotta pots with a colourful mosaic. 

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Clear Your Basket, This Coveted Australian Accessories Label Just Dropped A Massive Sale

One of the many ways we’re surviving and thriving in the depths of self-isolation is with a little retail therapy to support Aussie fashion labels, of course.

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Get Your Hands Dirty With This Home-Delivered DIY Pottery Kit

Crockd is all about getting out of your head and into your hands. It’s a DIY pottery kit that can be delivered right to your front door, so there’s no need to break quarantine to get your craft on. 

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Going Green | 6 Ways To Reduce Your Eco-Footprint At Home

To inspire you to live an eco-conscious life, we’re bringing you a slew of bite-size tips to reduce your eco-footprint at home. 

8 Of The Coolest Female-Owned Brisbane Businesses To Get Behind

Brisbane is home to an impressive list of female entrepreneurs who founded, run and operate a heap of familiar businesses. They’ve turned themselves into household names, and their businesses into the brands we know and love.

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On The Rise | 7 Scandi Trends You Need To Get Behind

There’s no denying Aussies are downright obsessed with Scandi culture—and rightly so. 

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How To Get What You Want This Christmas And Save The Planet

Whether you’re shopping for yourself or someone else, let this be your guide to a more sustainable Christmas.

What's On

Brisbane’s Biggest, Most Beautiful Craft Markets Are Returning!

Great news, market-hungry Brisbanites! The Finders Keepers Markets are coming back to Brisbane for their spring/summer pop-up and this year they are bigger and better than ever!

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These Are The 3 SP01 x Metrica Pieces We’re Throwing Our Savings At

People who like to froth over fancy-pants homewares (so, all of us, basically), we’ve got a shit load of piping hot furniture porn coming at you today—you lucky ducks!

Fashion

Dinosaur Designs’ Dreamy New Collection Just Dropped & We Are Digging It

Think dreamy icicle-like earrings and necklaces, and dark marble-esque vases with metallic flecks that catch the light just right.

Homewares

IKEA And NASA Are Joining Forces To Create Weird, Futuristic Furniture

When you think IKEA, you think of that bookcase you build back-to-front, ball pits full of screaming kids, and sketchy $1 hotdogs ("I'll have three, thanks"). Space-age furniture collabs with NASA, not so much. 

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Budget To Blow Out | Couches

There’s nothing quite like a fabulously fabulous couch or sofa to make a bold statement in your home.

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From Broke To Banksy | Art For Every Budget

A house is not a home without artwork. The right pieces don’t just set the tone of your home, they also say something about you, and help you express who you are, and feel grounded in your space. So investing in some quality pieces that you love is important, and can be a lot of fun. That said, we don’t always want to ‘invest’ quite as much money as what all the lust-worthy pieces we see on Insta are going to set us back.

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Interior Porn | 8 Interior Design Accounts You Should Be Following On Instagram

When you think about how much time we spend inside our homes it doesn’t make sense to be haphazard with the décor. It doesn’t need to look like the Guggenheim but acknowledging the power of a well-placed cushion to transform a room is the first step to becoming an interiors god… The second step is having a creative breakdown when the internet yields an utter lack of interior inspiration.

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You Need To Get One Of These Wooden Maps In Your House ASAP

We’re still trying to work out how it’s 2018, but, it is. And with a new year comes the chance to start afresh and finally fix your place up so that you’re not mega embarrassed when your friends and family come over.

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We’ve Found The Best Indoor Plant App Ever Invented & It’s Free!

The days of murdering countless innocent indoor plants are over, thanks to this nifty little app.

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The Plant Shop Of Your Dreams Has Has Popped Up In The Valley!

Helping us all attain all the beautiful things is new James Street plant shop, Arc + Family!

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The 2017 Eat Drink Design Awards Have Been Announced

We all love a well-designed venue to go with our food, and it seems every café, restaurant, and bar these days not only serves up great food and drinks, but also provides extremely good fodder for The Gram.

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A HUGE Yayoi Kusama Exhibition Has Arrived In Australia!

You don’t have to be an art buff to recognise the fantastical and incredibly colourful works of artist Yayoi Kusama. From her infamous pumpkins (swoon!), instantly recognisable polka dot motifs, to her latest immersive pieces involving mirrors and light, Kusama’s creations are adored on a global scale.

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Brisbane’s Got The First Ever Make-Your-Own Tee, Tea and Pots Workshop!

Enter; Only-T. The world's first t-shirt brewhouse where you get to DIY. Pause for effect. 

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The CBD Has Landed A Mind-Blowing Pop-Up Art Installation!

Brisbane is full of some incredible art: in our world-famous galleries, showcased throughout the city and on walls, even hidden dowon alleyways. Art in general can be pretty out there sometimes, totally subjective and up for individual interpretation, but nothing could more out there (and obvious) than an enormous blue cube popping up in Brisbane's Queen Street Mall this month. Mysterious, eh? Let us tell you more.

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A Huge Street Art Festival Is Coming to West End

Just when Brisbane couldn’t get any more festivals, think again! We were seriously chuffed with Diner en Blanc and the abundance of noodles at the Thai Festival - but, behold more goodness, West End brings us their very own Street Art Festival!

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Where To Find Brisbane’s Best Street Art

As if Brisbane wasn’t pretty enough already, a bunch of talented street artists went and made it even prettier with their creative masterpieces. From Fortitude Valley, through to New Farm and out to South Brisbane, Brisbane is covered in glorious street art that makes us swoon.

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The Best Places To Buy Art Online

Having art in your home is a true sign of adulthood. There’s a marked point in your life when your perception of ‘cool room décor’ shifts from band posters and polaroids, to strikingly beautiful art. The hardest part of this shift though, is knowing where to actually find said art. Don’t worry, though, we’ve rounded up a list of 4 places where you can buy art online.

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Nailed It | How To Decide On A Piece Of Art

Buying art is kind of hard. It’s like ordering food at a restaurant—you spend hours agonising over the menu only to be hit with jealousy when your dining partners’ food comes out. We get it. We’ve all been there. That’s why we thought it was high time to put together this nifty little guide to picking art. 

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How To Buy Art For Your Home You Won’t Hate In 6 Months!

The art world can be kind of intimidating; we totally get it. Alongside the pressures of finding art that’s actually cool (say no to Ikea posters!), there is the pressure of finding art that you’ll actually love for the entirety of its life.

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We Chat About Brisbane’s Best Signal Box Art With Stan Been

There’s no denying that street art is constantly evolving. It’s not just on the walls of alleyways, or tags on the sides of buildings, it seems like street artists are finding more and more canvases to work with.

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Our Pick Of Australia’s Best Jewellery Designers

There’s a stack of Aussie jewellery designers doing their bit to keep you really well accessorised these days! From home studios to internationally renowned brands, there’s stunningly beautiful, intricately crafted and wonderfully wacky jewellery coming from all corners of our creative country.

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TUL’s Top Picks for Buying Art Online

Don't have the time or dime to trawl through every art gallery out there? Here are our top picks for buying art online, featuring artists from Australia and all over the world!

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5 Essential Arty Events Not To Miss!

The Institute of Modern Art in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane art scene’s too-cool-for-school equivalent of this annoying person we all know—and gallery terrible enfant—is turning 40 this year, and their perennial trendiness is still irrepressible.

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12 Must-Haves To Deck Your Halls This Christmas

Check out these seriously stylish accessories to light up your home for the festive season.

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James Street’s Father’s Day Gift Guide

Looking for the perfect idea for a Father's Day gift is more often that not, a match made in shopping misery. You swear to yourself you'll find something he'll actually like this year, and winding up stressed out, with a gift that's a bit blah.

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Win $500 To Spend On James Street

Want to splash some serious cash without the shopping guilt? Do you dream of the champagne lifestyle, but in reality, you're on a beer budget like the rest of us? Have the moths in your wallet taken up permanent residency?  Life can be cruel, can't it?

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Behind The Scenes With Cook Republic’s Sneh Roy

Food fanatics and design buffs are already well aware of Cook Republic's Sneh Roy. The winner of Best Australian Blog 2013, Best Lifestyle Blog 2013 and author of the beautiful cookbook Tasty Express, Sneh is a force to be reckoned with.

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2 Minutes with Brad Eastman aka Beastman

His instantly recognisable — and totally trippy — murals, artworks, and designs have brought him international acclaim. We sat down with Brad Eastman, aka Beastman, to find out what inspires this prolific artist and designer, and get the dirt on his newest project, East Editions.

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Two Minutes with Olleywood’s Director, Susi Muddiman

Margaret Olley, who died in 2011, is one of Australia's best known and loved artists for her richly detailed interiors and still life paintings.

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New Farm’s Best Homewares Stores

Does your home need a revamp? Maybe you're after a new rug, a one-off showcase piece, or you want to tear the whole lot down and start again.

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2 Minutes with Stuart Chapman of Indisposable Concept

At a time when you can snap and share every moment of your life with the whole world at the click of a button, a Brisbane-born art initiative is aiming to slow the photography mania down a notch an

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Kunstler Magazine and Books Opens in Winn Lane

As much as we love the digital medium, that's not to say we don't appreciate an old-school, quality print job, and that the opening of a new magazine and specialty bookstore doesn't get us a bit excited. 

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Sam Thies | Photographer + Founder of Ross Street Studio

He's a photographer, father, and founder of Ross Street Studio — a home for Brisbane creatives and a unique workspace and gallery in Newstead. We joined Sam in his eclectic and very cool workspace, and in his newly renovated Ashgrove cottage — along with wife Cass and their charming infants, Tom and Will — where he shared his favourite Brisbane haunts, let us in on how he made his Ross Street pipe dream a reality, and told us why Brisbane's the place to be for the young and inspired.

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Two Minutes with Philip Bacon

Philip Bacon Galleries opens the art year with an exhibition of Australian paintings loaned from private collections. 

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The (Not Quite) Alphabetical Guide to Absolutely Fabulous

Conveying through words the many, and varied things, that make Woolloongabba's Absolutely Fabulous, um, well fabulous, is a challenge to say the least.

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After Dark @ Queensland Museum

What's more fun than visiting the museum during the day time? Visiting the museum at night, obviously! 

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Michael Zavros’ New Show @ Philip Bacon Galleries

Brisbane artist Michael Zavros is a busy man. He was the recent subject of a retrospective exhibition, The Prince, held at the Rockhampton Art Gallery, and Griffith University Art Gallery. Prior to that, he tried his hand at curating, with stunning results, in his 'Artist's Choice' show at QAG, and managed to produce one of the best works in the most recent Archibald Prize.

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2 Minutes with Cai Guo-Qiang

Cai Guo-Qiang presents his first Australian solo exhibition at GOMA in November this year. Born in China in 1957, and now based in New York, internationally acclaimed, his work is known for its literally explosive power. His recent solo projects include Cai Guo-Qiang on the Roof: Transparent Moment at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and I Want to Believe, an exhibition that achieved record attendances at the Guggenheim in New York, the National Art Museum in Beijing, and the Guggenheim Bilbao. 

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TUL Guide | The Lavazza Italian Film Festival 2013

The Lavazza Italian Film Festival is guaranteed to reveal the many facets of Italian cinema.

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Get Your Work on the Label of Cake Wines

It's been dubbed the second most prestigious art prize in Australia, and it's on again.

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Style Mavens & Mavericks: Millicent Rogers

Millicent Rogers was a socialite, style icon, and avid art collector.

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Punching above our weight | QUT Art Museum

We're used to getting to see some pretty impressive exhibitions of international artists and collections here in Brisbane.

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The Art of Place | Two New Valley Exhibitions

Two exhibitions currently showing in Fortitude Valley explore the significance of place.

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Two Minutes With Annabelle Kirkpatrick

In Spilt Ink, her very first exhibition, Annabelle Kirkpatrick will showcase some of her beautiful watercolour and illustration artwork.

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Close Encounter: Chris Saines | QAGOMA Director

Chris Saines (born 1954) returns to Brisbane and Australia after directing Auckland Art Gallery for 17 years.

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Hobart Itinerary | Winter Edition

When I told people I was visiting Hobart in June, they thought I was mad. Hobart, in winter? Yes! I gleefully replied.

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The School with Megan Morton is coming to Brisbane!

Do you read a million design blogs? Have you ever wondered how to render your home more Pinterest-worthy? Ever dreamed of blowing up big on Instagram?