Your algorithm tells you it’s easy. Stunning before-and-afters. A room transformation in thirty seconds. The perfectly curated house tour. But it doesn’t show you the long days and lonely nights of renovating, where decision fatigue meets financial pressure head on. Or the tough conversations with your builder and bank over the unwelcome, yet unavoidable, variations. “It can be a lot at times,” an honest Jemma Mrdak tells Place Journal. “It pushes you in ways you don’t expect

Twenty one days. That's all they gave themselves to gut and rebuild an entire working salon, without shutting down livelihoods for any longer than absolutely necessary. While working full-time and raising three young kids. In the school holidays. Sound familiar? Bec and Paul, the couple who renovated a derelict 1920s Bungalow in Millswood under similar conditions, are back at it again. This time renovating the corner shop they bought back in 2021. The property they bought dur

The Sanctuary at Marion Bay sits on a stretch of idyllic coastline at the foot of South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula. It’s a private retreat “designed exclusively for couples seeking space, seclusion, and a luxurious connection to nature”. Only minutes from Dhilba Guuranda-Innes National Park - and with room for more than two - there’s nothing quite like it. But to understand The Sanctuary, you need to understand how it came to exist at all. Tiffany was three when she fell in