Why Interior Design Is the Couture of Construction
If couture defines the garment, design defines the home. It’s time to stop treating interior design as decoration and start seeing it as the blueprint for how you’ll live and feel every day. Let’s start with a truth bomb: interior design is not a soft‑furnishings sideshow. It’s the beating heart of every successful build — the couture of construction. Yet time and again, I meet clients who call a designer only after their walls are up, plans stamped, and budgets blown. At that point, I’m the paramedic, not the partner.
This misunderstanding isn’t just unfortunate; it’s expensive, stressful, and limits the potential of what a home could be. Interior design should lead the conversation, because design doesn’t simply make rooms look good — it makes them work beautifully.
How To Navigate the Renovation Process: From Architectural Elements to Landscaping
After thorough pre-renovation planning, it's time to embark on the exciting journey of transforming your home. The renovation process is where your vision begins to take shape, but it requires careful management and attention to detail to ensure success.
This comprehensive guide will cover key aspects of the renovation process, including architectural elements, lifestyle considerations, lighting, landscaping, communication with contractors, and strategies for staying on track and within budget.
New Year, New Home: How To Turn Your 2026 Design Resolutions Into A Real Renovation
New Year, new home. Stop scrolling and start designing. Discover how to turn your New Year decor and renovation resolutions into a bold, intentional home with a No‑Vanilla designer. New year is the perfect design reset.
The New Year is when people swear they’ll drink more water, go to the gym and stop texting their ex; it’s also the ideal moment to stop tolerating a home that feels beige, tired or vaguely embarrassing.
Don’t Get Ripped Off by Your Reno
Avoid getting ripped off in your renovation with insider tips on budgets, hiring and quotes – plus a step‑by‑step guide to protect every dollar. Learn how to avoid getting ripped off in a renovation in Australia, prevent budget blowouts and manage builders, designers and quotes like a pro.
Wellness-Led Luxury Homes: The 2026 Interior Design Trends Transforming High-End Living
2026 luxury interior design trends are finally misbehaving, and that’s excellent news for anyone bored to death by “timeless” white boxes. The new high-end home isn’t trying to look expensive; it’s busy making you feel something.
For years, “upmarket” meant white paint, pale oak, chrome tapware and a generic slab of engineered stone pretending it just flew in from Milan business class. Cute. Safe. Utterly unmemorable.
Now, 2026 luxury interior design has kicked off its heels, ordered a dirty martini and decided that personality, wellness and atmosphere matter more than showing off square metres.
2026 Interior Design Trends: Neo Deco, Cool Blue and Opera Aesthetic for No-Vanilla Homes
The 2026 interior design forecast is full of noise, but three 2026 interior design trends have real staying power:
Neo Deco, Cool Blue and Opera Aesthetic interiors. Used well, they are bold, liveable and fiercely anti-beige—and they play beautifully in Australian homes, from city apartments to Adelaide Hills retreats.
2026 Interior Design Trends: Neo Deco, Cool Blue and Opera Aesthetic for No-Vanilla Homes
If 2025 was the year people finally admitted they were bored of beige, 2026 is the year they actually do something about it.
“Safe” interiors are quietly dying; homes with backbone, glamour and personality are stepping into the spotlight as the new standard, not the exception.
The Biggest Interior Design Mistake You Don’t Even Realise You’re Making
You know that moment when you walk into your living room, scan the scene, and think, “Yeah… it’s nice,” but your shoulders don’t drop, your heart doesn’t lift, and nothing inside you says, “This is so unapologetically me”?
That, darling, is your home quietly filing for emotional divorce.
It’s not the wrong white, the slightly-too-large sofa, or the throw cushions that look like they lost a fight with the dog. Those are amateur-hour issues. The real, gut-level interior design mistake most people make is far sneakier – and it’s choking the life out of your home.
How To Balance Quality, Aesthetics, and Budget in Material Specifications!
One of the most critical steps in any interior design or renovation project is finalising material specifications. That is, are your selections the best they can be?
The materials specifications process requires a delicate balance of quality, aesthetics, and budget to ensure the end result is beautiful, durable and cost-effective. Here at Plush Design Interiors, we understand the nuances of this balance and offer you our expert advice on how to achieve it.
Window Treatments Love: Celebrating 70 Years of Luxaflex Window Coverings
Transforming Australian homes since 1954. Now that’s something to celebrate! Window treatments finish off a home and beautifully frame windows in a variety of ways.
Window treatments as fashion! That’s what Hunter Douglas may have been thinking when Luxaflex Aluminium Venetian Blinds were introduced to Australia in 1954. Luxaflex Window Fashions aimed to transform homes with products that delivered revolutionary style and functionality for every Australian home.
Light-Filled in Leichhardt. Three Levels of Modern Terrace Renovation
A modern terrace renovation in Sydney’s inner west suburb of Leichhardt has created a three level light-filled home for a young family. Fusing heritage charm with modern sophistication, this luminous sanctuary is now awash with natural light.
Exceptional Kitchen Design With New Rules for Style and Function !
A functional kitchen is much better than a stylish one, BELIEVE ME! However, that doesn't mean you can't have both. Meld style AND function for your best kitchen yet. Kitchens are the one area in a home that must be incredibly functional. So exceptional kitchen design is not a luxury, it’s an imperative! If you can't work easily in a space, find everything you need and be cool under cooking pressure then you may not have a functional kitchen.
Three Great Bathroom Ideas To Add Value To Your Home
Every home renovator looks for the best tips and tricks to create bigger bathrooms for less. So we’ve compiled three great bathroom ideas that will add value, and create the illusion of spaciousness, in your home. Creating an airy and fresh bathroom can come from updating select features and laying tiles in particular patterns, all of which will have guests swooning, according to Beaumont Tiles Product Specialist, Michelle Kearney.
Celebrating Stylish Coastal Interiors Reimagined by Kyal and Kara
Australians love their stylish coastal interiors even when they don’t live near the beach. Curves and unique features abound in this stunning duplex design by ‘The Block’ stars, Kyal and Kara Demmrich. Side-by-side and sharing the same floor plan, this duplex is different. Expert renovators Kyla and Kara have created their own brand of stylish coastal interiors resulting in two homes with unique features. Learn how they did and bring their ideas to your own home renovation.
Modern Brutalism: Create Bold Decor That’s Surprisingly Achievable
Brutalism, a bold and raw architectural style that emerged in the mid-20th century, is characterized by its unapologetic use of concrete, steel, and an almost monolithic aesthetic. This style, often misunderstood as cold and uninviting, can be transformed into a stunning and comfortable living space with a modern twist. Here’s how.
Hamptons Style Done the Australian Way
Everyone is loving Hamptons style, the cool and clever beach-style reputed to have started in Maine, USA, in the beachside Hamptons area.
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