Even in a quiet house, getting a baby to sleep is the biggest challenge many new parents face. So, what about in a loud one, during a renovation with power tools on in the next room? For most, a nightmare. For Ben and Rhianna, it was reality. "Our newborn eventually had to learn to nap through the sound of hammer drills going into his bedroom wall," Ben laughs. It wasn’t all noise and disruption, though. “There were also lots of beautiful moments watching him get excited abou

Highly technical and genuinely decorative, four words that prove a challenge too far for many. But not South Drawn. The Melbourne-based lighting design studio is fascinatingly unique. Some of the work occupies a deliberate space between technical precision and organic form, where weight distribution can look "slightly wrong at first glance" even when it's structurally perfect. The Ballast candle collection features a heavy metal base that counterweights hand-slumped glass sit

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