January 2021

Real Living Australia

Your home, made easy

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Editor-in-chief Elle Lovelock Creative director Sandy Dao Deputy editor Lindyl Crabb Art directors Andrea Healy, Alice Ierace Market assistant Lisa Burden Copy editor Laura Barry Copy/production editor Tamarah Pienaar Image retoucher Matus Kundrat Ka
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Hello
IT’S TIME TO EXHALE. Summer’s here, which means holidays, longer days and, let’s be honest, a great excuse to redecorate your home accordingly. With Christmas done and dusted, all I want to do is swap red and gold for blue and white, which is why I d
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Homegrown Heroes
Anna Carrabs Kingliving.com.au @kingliving A commitment to design excellence has ensured this family-owned business enjoys a lifetime of success. KING WAS FORMED IN 1977 by mother and son team Gwen and David King who sold their homemade furniture at
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Chasing The Sun
STEP INSIDE THE HOME of creative consultant Lisa Danielle Smith and you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d wandered onto a ’70s coastal film set. Its awash with muted hues, tropical retro prints and the smooth sounds of a cinematic backing track – name
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Fave Finds
staff pick ELLE LOVE LOCK Editor staff pick SANDY DAO Creative Director real living loves go for golden 1. Easy to use Self tanning mousse, $29.95, Bali Body. 2. Spray-on Tanology ‘Express Tan’ self tan water, $22.99, Priceline. 3. Moisturising Self
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This Month I’m Looking Forward To…
2 Line-drying my freshly washed linens in the sun. Samsung ‘A.I-Personalised QuickDrive’ washing machine, $1499, Harveynorman.com.au 3 Protecting my super fair skin (I’ve practically got a moon tan) with The Kind Sunscreen, $29, Thekindsunscreen.com.
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A Day On The Green
hair and make-up teneille sorgiovanni | photography assistant michael comninus | styling assistant tessa thyregod ■
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Subscribe or extend your subscription to Real Living and receive two bonus navy Tommy Towels. Soft, lightweight and quick-drying, the all-natural, 100 per cent premium Turkish cotton towels make for the perfect beach or travel companion. @tommytowels
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Space Crush
BEAUTIFUL, FUNCTIONAL, TACTILE. This is how interior architect Phoebe Nicol describes the sensitively-selected materials throughout Cultiver’s new Sydney store. Of course, she could just as easily be talking about the brand’s offering of luxury linen
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Beauty Spot
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Summer Reads
Eat a Peach by David Chang More than a memoir for foodies, celebrity chef and Momofuku founder David Chang gets real about mental health and the restaurant industry. Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld What would have happened if Hillary had turned down Bill
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Family Resemblance
Sally McGarry, a town planner and project manager, her husband Matt McGarry, electrician and director of MTS Group, their three boys Jasper, 10, Duke, 8, and Sonny, 4,and their Samoyed x Retriever Shelby. The home was a collaborative effort between t
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Rustic Revival
PERCHED ATOP ROLLING HILLS on the Balearic island of Minorca is the private estate known as Es Bec D’Aguila, a 19th century farm that presides over 150 acres of native gardens with uninterrupted views of the cerulean blue sea. WINDS OF CHANGE After s
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Great heights
A couple who both work in mental health, with their three school-age children and an Irish Wolfhound/Staffordshire Terrier cross. They engaged Timmins + Whyte architects to craft the extension of their family home. @timminswhyte_architects BEFORE BUY
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Taste Of Summer
Take your breakfast spread to the next level by pairing country-style checks and soft retro pastels reminiscent of a 1950s kitchen with more contemporary shapes. When choosing a colour palette for your summer table, be a little experimental and ventu
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A New Wave
WHEN JUSTINE AND LUKE ORTON FIRST MOVED IN together over a decade ago, they rented a home in the seaside Newcastle suburb of Merewether, immediately fell in love with the coastal lifestyle and vowed to buy a house there one day. Fast-forward to today
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THE LOOK Mykonos Muse
11 Moisture + Protein infusion hair treatment, $47.70 for 50ml, Sans[ceuticals]. 22 Nisha throw in Peony, $129.95, Provincial Home Living. ■
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Inner beauty
A couple with their three children and the family dog. The owners engaged Pandolfini Architects to design this brand new home. Pandolfini.com.au | @pandolfini_architects ANCHORED IN THE BAYSIDE TOWN OF SORRENTO on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, thi
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THE LOOK Made In Italy
1 Hay ‘W&S Soft’ candleholder in Soft Yellow, $71.30, Finnish Design Shop. 22 Nutritious skin treatment mask, $50 for set of 5, Minenssey. ■
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SUBSCRIBE & RECEIVE 2 BONUS TOMMY TOWELS
Subscribe or extend your subscription to Real Living and receive two bonus navy Tommy Towels. Soft, lightweight and quick-drying, the all-natural, 100 per cent premium Turkish cotton towels make for the perfect beach or travel companion. @tommytowels
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THE LOOK Colombia Crush
13 Biossance ‘Shimmering’ Squalane + Vitamin E body oil, $48, Sephora.
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Branching Out
THERE’S NO CLEAR DESTINATION ON ARRIVAL at Lune de Sang. It’s easy to get lost when entering the property – which is somewhat the intention. Visitors are drawn to the hillside forest, with no clear view of the house or other buildings to show the way
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Chill Factor
AS MUCH AS WE LOVE an Australian summer our climate can also be extremely harsh and beating the heat comes down to selecting a home cooling system that best suits your requirements and budget. Cooling technologies have advanced in leaps and bounds –
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Real Living Rooms
IF THE KITCHEN IS THE HEART of your home, the living room is surely the soul. It’s where we retreat, relax and recharge, and it’s where many of us have been working remotely, too. While every member of the real living team has their own distinct styl
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Entertaining
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Blind Spots
CHOOSING THE RIGHT BLINDS FOR YOUR HOME can be tricky. We want the light to flood in, but not all the time. We want to see what’s going on outside, but privacy is a huge factor too. However, one of the biggest considerations is how it will look, and
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Daiquiri
Rum, lime and sugar are often referred to as the Holy Trinity of Caribbean cocktails, and the Daiquiri is one of the most iconic examples of this genre. The name Daiquiri is taken from a mining town in Cuba where American Jennings Cox claims to have
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White Lady
One story of the White Lady tells that it was created for Zelda Fitzgerald (wife of F. Scott) at London’s Savoy Hotel in the 1920s and so named because of her platinum blonde hair. Whether that is true or not, it was a very popular cocktail in Europe
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Margarita
Many theories exist as to who invented the Margarita, one of the most popular and iconic cocktails around, but the combination of tequila, lime and orange liqueur closely resembles the Daisy, a family of drinks that dates back to the Victorian era. M
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Daiquiri #2
Constante Ribalaigua Vert, head barman for many years at Havana’s La Floridita bar, created many Daiquiri variations. This one adds an orange twist to the classic. Vert maintained that limes should always be hand-squeezed in order to capture the oils
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Impress Guests And Turn Your Home Into A Happy Hour Destination With Classic Cocktail Recipes You Can Master In Five Minutes
45ml amaro22ml bourbon30ml fresh lemon juice7ml Simple Syrup1 egg white Lemon twist, to garnish Note: Depending on the bitterness of the amaro, increase or decrease the amount of Simple Syrup to taste. 1 Combine all the ingredients in a cocktail shak
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Full Stop.
HOME…… NIKKI CAMPBELL: HAS NEVER FELT MORE LIKE HOME. FEELING GRATEFUL TO BE WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS THIS YEAR. SWIMWEAR…… N: SUMMER UNIFORM. SIR. SWIM IS ALL ABOUT STRONG LINES, CLEAN SHAPES AND LAYERING WITH SIR. READY-TO-WEAR. MY ENDURING STYLE IC

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