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We’re so chuffed to bring you this episode of Home Beautiful’s The Edit, where we explore beautiful homes and the people who create them. If you’re loving this, come on over and hit follow in your favourite podcast app! Links are right here for you:  🎧 Listen to The Edit and follow on Apple Podcasts  Listen and follow on Spotify  👀 Watch and subscribe to The Edit on Home Beautiful's YouTube  Watch full episodes  Now onto today’s episode:  What makes a home’s facade truly beautiful and how do you choose one you’ll still love in 20 years?  In this episode, Home Beautiful Editor-in-Chief Elle Lovelock chats to Metricon Homes’ National Design Director Adrian Popple about the art of creating a great first impression, from symmetry and proportion to colour, materials and landscaping. Adrian also shares a look at his own Mermaid Beach home, the design decisions he’d change, and his tips for building a facade that feels personal without trying too hard.  Plus, Adrian tackles a listener’s design dilemma: can you combine Hamptons style with a modern black-and-white look?  This episode covers:  How to choose a facade that will stand the test of time  The importance of symmetry, proportion and balance  The exterior materials and colour palettes shaping Australian homes  How landscaping can transform the look of a facade  Adrian’s own Mermaid Beach home and what he’d change  How to create a connection between your home’s exterior and interior  Adrian’s advice for building a facade you’ll love for years to come  A listener dilemma: can you combine Hamptons style with a modern black-and-white look?  This episode was brought to you in partnership with Metricon Homes www.metricon.com.au  Thank you for listening ❤️ before you leave…    🎧 Listen to The Edit and follow on Apple Podcasts   Listen and follow on Spotify   👀 Watch and subscribe to The Edit on Home Beautiful's YouTube   Watch full episodes   Credits:     Host Elle Lovelock     Guest Adrian Popple   Edited by Thomas Crnkovic    Head of Vodcasting Rachel Fountain    With thanks to our fabulous Home Beautiful team.    Learn More: The Edit is a production of Home Beautiful and Are Media. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We’re so chuffed to bring you this episode of Home Beautiful’s The Edit, where we explore beautiful homes and the people who create them. If you’re loving this, come on over and hit follow in your favourite podcast app! Links are right here for you:  🎧 Listen to The Edit and follow on Apple Podcasts  Listen and follow on Spotify  👀 Watch and subscribe to The Edit on Home Beautiful's YouTube  Watch full episodes  Now onto today’s episode:  Sarah Davidson spent years building a successful career in law before burnout forced her to confront a surprisingly difficult question: who was she outside of work?  What followed was a series of unexpected chapters, from launching a matcha business with her husband to turning her love of storytelling into Seize the Yay.  In this episode of The Edit, Sarah joins Home Beautiful Editor-in-Chief Elle Lovelock to talk about learning to take risks, why becoming a mum has been her most extraordinary chapter yet, and the Melbourne home she and Nic transformed while Sarah was pregnant.  Plus, Sarah takes us inside their renovation, from the DIY cabinetry throughout the house to their wellness room. This episode covers:  How Sarah went from lawyer to entrepreneur  The burnout that forced her to rethink her identity  Why she believes your “yay” should change throughout your life  How Sarah taught herself to become comfortable with risk  Why motherhood has been her most extraordinary chapter  Inside Sarah and Nic’s family home renovation  How they used kitchen cabinetry in their walk-in wardrobe  Why Sarah has learned to embrace the Lego-covered chaos  The simple design choices that make their house feel like home  You can find Sarah on Instagram here   🎧 Listen to The Edit and follow on Apple Podcasts  Listen and follow on Spotify  👀 Watch and subscribe to The Edit on Home Beautiful's YouTube  Watch full episodes  Credits:  Host: Elle Lovelock  Guest: Sarah Davidson  Edited by: Leah Porges  Head of Vodcasting: Rachel Fountain  With thanks to our wonderful Home Beautiful team.  The Edit is a production of Home Beautiful and Are Media.  https://www.homebeautiful.com.au/home-beautiful-the-edit-podcast/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We’re so chuffed to bring you this episode of Home Beautiful’s The Edit, where we explore beautiful homes and the people who create them. If you’re loving this, come on over and hit follow in your favourite podcast app! Links are right here for you:  🎧 Listen to The Edit and follow on Apple Podcasts  Listen and follow on Spotify  👀 Watch and subscribe to The Edit on Home Beautiful's YouTube  Watch full episodes  Now onto today’s episode:  Production designer Felicity Abbott returned to Australia after nine years working overseas to create the world of Netflix's My Brilliant Career, a new adaptation of Miles Franklin's iconic novel.  In this episode of The Edit, Felicity tells Home Beautiful Editor-in-Chief Elle Lovelock how her team transformed historic South Australian properties, built entire homes from scratch and used everything from architecture and landscaping to furniture, colour and the smallest objects in a room to tell the story of the characters who live there.  Plus, Felicity reveals the surprising Victorian status symbol she discovered during her research, and the painstaking tricks used to make heritage locations and studio-built interiors appear completely seamless on screen.  This episode covers:  Why My Brilliant Career brought Felicity back to Australia after nine years overseas  How she begins designing a world from the script and its characters  Finding the historic South Australian homes used in the series  Building entire houses and interiors from scratch  Making the architecture feel distinctly Australian  Why colour is the foundation of Felicity's production design  Sourcing and creating Victorian furniture, antiques and homewares  How tiny household objects reveal a character's backstory  Recreating Victorian gas, candle and tallow lighting  The magic - and sadness - of watching a film set come to life and eventually disappear  Check out Felicity’s work here  You can watch My Brilliant Career now on Netflix  🎧 Listen to The Edit and follow on Apple Podcasts  Listen and follow on Spotify  👀 Watch and subscribe to The Edit on Home Beautiful's YouTube  Watch full episodes  Credits:  Host: Elle Lovelock  Guest: Felicity Abbott  Edited by: Leah Porges  Head of Vodcasting: Rachel Fountain  With thanks to our wonderful Home Beautiful team.  The Edit is a production of Home Beautiful and Are Media. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We’re so chuffed to bring you this episode of Home Beautiful’s The Edit, where we explore beautiful homes and the people who create them. If you’re loving this, come on over and hit follow in your favourite podcast app! Links are right here for you:  🎧 Listen to The Edit and follow on Apple Podcasts  Listen and follow on Spotify  👀 Watch and subscribe to The Edit on Home Beautiful's YouTube  Watch full episodes  Now onto today’s episode:  Sophie Tieman grew up with a paintbrush in hand, helping her parents flip houses in Tasmania. That love of property carried into a 15-year career in commercial real estate... until one night at 10pm when she decided to walk away from it all and build something completely new.  In this episode of The Edit, Sophie tells Home Beautiful Editor-in-Chief Elle Lovelock about launching The Corporate Edit, a one-stop fashion shop for women in business, why she handed in her notice before telling anyone what she was building, and her honest advice for anyone sitting on an idea of their own.  Plus, Sophie shares how she completely transformed a dark 1970s townhouse during COVID, how she’s making her new home with “good bones” feel like her own, and her best hack for making a narrow home feel twice the size.   Sending thanks to our partners at Kaboodle Kitchen.   Explore kitchen and laundry inspiration at kaboodle.com.au  This episode covers:  Buying her first home pre-auction & signing the contract at the pub  Leaving the house she brought both her babies home to  Transforming a dark 1970s townhouse during COVID lockdowns  Rewiring, floorboards and moving the laundry into the garage  Designing a Kaboodle flat-pack kitchen  Her trick for making a narrow home feel twice the size  Creating the right ambience, from scent to playlists  Quitting a 15-year real estate career with nothing lined up  What her mum said about changing to fit a male-dominated industry  Launching The Corporate Edit from scratch  Mystery drawer: the wedding gift she can't throw out  A listener's project mamagement renovation dilemma  What makes a home beautiful  You can find Sophie on Instagram here  Check out The Corporate Edit here   🎧 Listen to The Edit and follow on Apple Podcasts  Listen and follow on Spotify  👀 Watch and subscribe to The Edit on Home Beautiful's YouTube  Watch full episodes  Credits:  Host: Elle Lovelock  Guest: Sophie Tieman  Edited by: Leah Porges  Head of Vodcasting: Rachel Fountain  With thanks to our wonderful Home Beautiful team.  The Edit is a production of Home Beautiful and Are Media. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We hope you enjoy this episode of Home Beautiful's The Edit... Carla Grace has built her career painting the wildlife she grew up with in South Africa. She’s just landed back in Australia after a piece of hers went under the hammer at Sotheby's in New York for an astounding $40,000.  In this episode of The Edit, Carla tells Home Beautiful Editor-in-Chief Elle Lovelock about her childhood surrounded by rhinos, crocodiles and elephants, and how a stint without electricity in rural Zambia sparked the art career she's built over the past 12 years.  Plus, Carla takes us through the art studio she and her husband spent a decade planning and saving for. The design is deeply intentional, down to the exact colour of the walls, so nothing would throw off-tone light onto her paintings. She also shares her honest advice on choosing frames and displaying art purposefully.  Sending thanks to our partners at Kaboodle Kitchen.   Explore kitchen and laundry inspiration at kaboodle.com.au  This episode covers:  Landing back from New York after selling a painting at Sotheby's  Growing up surrounded by wildlife in Zimbabwe  Her formative years in New Zealand and Zambia  How a home with no power led her to art  Building her art studio out of repurposed kitchen cabinets  What her parents think of her career now  What "success" really means after 12 years in the art industry  Inside her 1980s farmhouse, mid-renovation  Can rhinos paint?  A listener dilemma – everything especially the kitchen sink  What makes a home beautiful  You can find Carla on Instagram here.  Check out Carla’s amazing art on her website here.   🎧 Listen to The Edit and follow on Apple Podcasts  Listen and follow on Spotify  👀 Watch and subscribe to The Edit on Home Beautiful's YouTube  Watch full episodes  Credits:  Host: Elle Lovelock  Guest: Carla Grace  Edited by: Leah Porges  Head of Vodcasting: Rachel Fountain  With thanks to our wonderful Home Beautiful team.  The Edit is a production of Home Beautiful and Are Media. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.