Make Your Small Outdoor Space Feel Bigger and More Inviting A SMALL balcony, courtyard or patio can be one of the most enjoyable parts of a home. It can also become one of the most cluttered. Add a table and chairs, a barbecue, a few pots, perhaps an outdoor lounge and somewhere to store the […]
Feng Shui in Western Homes: Modern Design or Ancient Folklore? FENG SHUI has a reputation problem in the West. It’s dismissed by some as superstition and embraced by others as an interiors trend, often without much thought about what lies behind it. But strip away the mysticism and some feng shui principles start to look […]
Eggs in Japan: From Tamagoyaki to Ramen TRAVEL through Japan and it doesn’t take long to encounter eggs. They might arrive rolled into neat layers of tamagoyaki. A softly cooked egg may sit on top of a steaming bowl of ramen. Elsewhere, an omelette wraps around seasoned rice to create omurice. Then there’s perhaps the […]
Why Do We Eat Eggs for Breakfast? The History Behind the Habit EGGS and breakfast seem to belong together. Fried, poached, boiled or scrambled, eggs appear on breakfast tables around the world. Add toast and coffee and the combination feels almost inevitable. But why? There is nothing about an egg that makes it better suited to […]
Eggs for Dinner: Why Breakfast Shouldn’t Have All the Fun SOMEWHERE along the way, we decided eggs belonged to breakfast. Poached eggs on toast at 8 am seem perfectly normal. Scrambled eggs before work barely warrant a second thought. Yet serve eggs at 7 pm and they suddenly need an explanation. Perhaps they needn’t. Eggs […]
A Day on Magnetic Island: Rock Wallabies, Beaches and Island Time SOMETIMES the best way to explore somewhere new is not to arrive with a long list of things to tick off, but simply to see where the day takes you. That was our approach to Magnetic Island while I was staying with family in […]
Home Is Where the Heart Is, But Where Is Home? WHILE sorting through some of my mother’s belongings recently, I found a small piece of my childhood. It was a wall hanging I’d made when I was about 10: a piece of mustard-yellow cloth, a white heart stitched into the centre and the words Home […]
Spring Alfresco Living: Easy Outdoor Entertaining Ideas for Qld Homes You don’t need a big backyard or a magazine-worthy deck to make the most of spring. A few simple touches can turn any outdoor space, however modest, into somewhere you actually want to spend your evenings. SPRING has a way of pulling Queenslanders outdoors again. […]
The Queensland Coastal Home: 7 Ideas Worth Stealing You don’t need an ocean view, or a prize-home budget, to capture the easy, breezy feeling of a Queensland coastal home. From indoor-outdoor living to subtropical greenery, here are seven ideas worth borrowing for your own place. FORGET rooms filled with shells, anchors and signs pointing to […]
Whale Watching in Hervey Bay: The Complete Seasonal Guide From lively juveniles in July and August to mothers teaching their calves the ways of the whale in spring, every stage of Hervey Bay’s whale-watching season has something different to offer. Here’s how to choose when to go, find the right cruise and make the most […]