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Clarkisha Kent is disabled, fat, queer, Nigerian American, and a Taurus. Her identity has many facets, and she is proud of them all. But that wasn’t always the case. In the cultural critic’s debut memoir, Fat Off, Fat On: A Big Bitch Manifesto, she…

Clarkisha Kent Takes Aim at Racialized Fatphobia

Annie and Gertrude on Tremont Street, Boston, circa 1945. From the “Style” section of Black Archives. Photo: Ten Speed Press/Penguin Random House Our lives are often measured by the things we keep. Renata Cherlise, visual artist and founder of the…

A Collective Family Photo Album

We’ve all seen a version of the domino effect meme. In it, a man (YouTuber Stephen Morris) crouches low to demonstrate how a small domino can knock over a larger domino which can knock over an even larger domino and create a chain reaction. The meme…

New Social History ‘Palo Alto’ Tells a Story of Laborers and Exploiters

Emily Aragones/Sony Pictures Naomi Ackie is on the move. Both in her career—which has taken a major leap forward as she fronts the new Whitney Houston biopic hitting theaters today—and literally, as I catch her walking the streets of London in search…

How Naomi Ackie Embodied Whitney Houston in I Wanna Dance with Somebody

In Robert Zemeckis’ 1992 black comedy Death Becomes Her, Meryl Streep plays Madeline Ashton, an aging Hollywood actress who pays a pretty penny for an elixir from a mysterious rejuvenation expert (Isabella Rossellini’s Lisle Von Rhuman). The elixir…

Plastic Surgery Meets Suspense in Allie Rowbottom’s ‘Aesthetica’

Your ears will pick up the world like a maddening symphony. You will be filled with all the life you can hold. These are the promises the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) makes to Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), the human he transforms…

Jacob Anderson Has Been Waiting His Whole Career for a Show Like “Interview with the Vampire”

The worst thing you could ever call HAWA is boring. The 22-year-old rapper recently released her debut LP, HADJA BANGOURA, and it's the culmination of a sound she has worked hard to cultivate and make unique. The shortest track, “7 Deadly Sins:…

HAWA on making “structured chaos” into self-reflective art with HADJA BANGOURA

"We get to see ourselves and hold that space with each other, because our world doesn't really do that." When it comes to Hulu's latest docuseries The Hair Tales, the medium is the message. The six-part docuseries — which premiered on Oct. 22 and was…

Tracee Ellis Ross's New Film 'The Hair Tales' Is Focused on Joy — Not Trauma

Jake Lacy is a nice guy. During our video interview, he’s polite and thoughtful and affable. These adjectives are also traits shared by a large number of characters he’s played on the big and small screen. But his most recent roles — as a douchey…

Jake Lacy Talks Playing Against Type in the Creepy “A Friend of the Family”

(Photo by Tony Anderson/Gettyt; Cover courtesy of Soft Skull Press) Tell Me I’m An Artist, the new novel from Chelsea Martin (Caca Dolce: Essays from a Lowbrow Life), is both a book title and a plea from its 20-something protagonist, Joey. Joelle…

In ‘Tell Me I’m An Artist,’ an Art Student’s Greatest Work is Herself

“What do you do when you aren’t happy, but nothing’s really wrong?” William Jackson Harper muses over Zoom. He’s answering a question about the appeal of his new project, Peacock’s The Resort, which he is co-leading with Cristin Milioti (Black…

William Jackson Harper Talks True Crime and “The Resort”

Sona Movsesian is excellent at her job — or rather, not doing it. Everyone has goofed off on the job either out of boredom or protest. If you’re Movsesian, you turn that desire not to work into your full-time job. You find ways to watch 58 hours of…

The Case for Meh Ambition

‘Still Working 9 to 5’ is an enlightening, informative, and entertaining reminder that there’s still work to do. 9 to 5 was released on Dec. 19, 1980. As a Christmas release that wasn’t a Christmas movie and featured three female leads — sardonic…

‘Still Working 9 to 5’ Highlights the Ongoing Fight for Equal Rights

Frazier asks us to see solidarity in her photos, not just art. In 2016 photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier was commissioned to photograph the Flint water crisis for Elle magazine. It began April 25, 2014, the day the city started using discolored river…

LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Flint is Family in Three Acts

The host tells us why season seven of his show was "the most challenging" one he ever shot What’s going on in America? We ask ourselves that every time there’s another mass shooting, or when social movements and seemingly innocuous words get…

W. Kamau Bell on the New Season of “United Shades of America”

A conversation with Laura J. Martin about the Cold War origins of environmental management and her book Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration. In her new book, Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration, environmental historian…

The Tricky Politics of Ecological Restoration

Bolu Babalola is in love with love. The British-Nigerian author spent many of her teen years churning out original rom-com stories every week for her classmates to read at school. She doesn’t even remember actively choosing to write about romance,…

Bolu Babalola Gives Black Women Their Rightful Place in Romance Novels

A conversation with critic Ben Davis about making art amid global crisis, fine art’s waning relevance, and his recent book Art in the After-Culture. While the goings-on of the art world might appear to be a secondary concern amid the various crises…

How Bleak Is the Future of the Art World?

Fans rule the internet. They are responsible for our online vocabulary, the topics and news items that trend every day, and, most importantly, memes. So many memes. In Kaitlyn Tiffany’s new book, Everything I Need I Get From You: How Fangirls Created…

The Fangirls Deserve Your Respect

Apple TV+’s Severance, a mystery-box series about the malaise of white-collar office workers, has emerged as a sleeper hit in today’s crowded television landscape. The series, which is directed and executive produced by Ben Stiller, is a satiric…

“Severance” Star Tramell Tillman Answers All Our Questions Ahead of the Finale

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This article discusses plot details from throughout Like a Dragon: Ishin! At one point in Like a Dragon: Ishin!, the latest, spin-off entry to the series formerly known in English as Yakuza, the protagonist accidentally brokers a history-making…

A Two-Faced Man

In 2006, when Relic Entertainment’s Company of Heroes was released, the real-time strategy genre’s glory days were already just about over. The popularity of ’90s and early ’00s staples like Warcraft, Starcraft, or Command & Conquer had begun to give…

Company of Heroes 3 Gives Strategy Games a Much-Needed Reboot

Auckland, New Zealand’s Julian Sewell is extremely good at impersonating people. A couple of years ago, he attracted widespread notice for performing a spot-on version of Queen Elizabeth II delivering her annual Christmas message. Since then, he’s…

A round of applause, please, for this TikToker's fictional "Best Actress" Oscar nominee line-up

Shortly after Ryoma Sakamoto, the historical figure fictionalized as the protagonist of Like a Dragon: Ishin!, must flee as a fugitive wanted for the violent death of his adoptive father, he heads to the chicken races. Brow furrowed, still armed with…

Like a Dragon: Ishin! Is a True Yakuza Game

's real-world laundromat has become a tourist attraction Majers Coin Laundry has become an L.A. landmark thanks to its use as an Everything Everywhere All At Once set After raking in a whole bunch of trophies at the Independent Spirit Awards and the…

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Nothing, Forever is back, but it's replaced its original, Seinfeld-inspired characters with new ones Normal sitcoms have to pace out their scandals and reinventions, but in the world of artificial intelligence, everything seems to move a bit more…

That AI generated Seinfeld show has returned from its Twitch suspension with an all-new cast

While Don’t Look Up might not have been all that great, its writer, director, and producer Adam McKay is far from running out of ideas for how to deliver its message in other ways and, somehow, make people pay attention to the coming environmental…

Adam McKay recruits Darth Vader to help deliver a "love letter to Exxon"

During a close encounter with Stephen Colbert, Steven Spielberg talked about what he thinks UFOs might be Depraved dinosaur hunter and acclaimed film director Steven Spielberg seems to be wondering, like all of us, about the nature of all those UFO…

Steven Spielberg shares personal theory explaining all those UFO sightings

Black appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show in a skin-tight Bowser costume to promote the Super Mario Bros. Movie Whatever you think of Jack Black, you can never fault the man for a lack of effort. He will tirelessly work out an endless series of jokes…

Jack Black's latest antics required The Kelly Clarkson Show to blur out his balls

A guy who goes by Dazza on TikTok has spent the last several months perfecting a frog house PublishedYesterday Comments (5) In early October of last year, an Australian TikTok user who goes by Dazza decided to create a tiny shelter for a frog he saw…

Behold one man's quest to build the perfect little house for a neighborhood frog

The 10-year-old Olive Wallace's "For Greatness We Bring" has become a TikTok hit Last week, a woman named Michelle Wallace posted a video on TikTok that showed a bit of sheet music written by her 10-year-old daughter, Olive, and asked if anyone out…

Mom asks internet if anyone could play her 10-year-old's first composition, internet does just that

The author's chaotic Twitter account has been used to shut down bigoted arguments for the past few days Joyce Carol Oates is not only a great American author but also one of the nation’s most prolific and enigmatic posters. Her Twitter account is a…

Joyce Carol Oates spent the long weekend using her Twitter to dunk on transphobes

A TikToker from British Columbia has been sharing videos of her treating neighborhood raccoons to delicious drive-thru treats Raccoons are resourceful animals. After their natural homes were largely demolished by urban development, the bandit-masked…

Woman creates "raccoon drive-thru," which, to our delight, is exactly what it sounds like

Ah, Jesus: The internet wants to bang ' giant mushroom monster The "Bloater" monster from the most recent episode of The Last Of Us has won the internet's heart It didn’t take many episodes of The Last Of Us for Pedro Pascal, who plays lead character…

The Last Of Us

Luckily, the two workers were rescued instead of getting sucked up into a nearby tube In the summer of last year, when the northern hemisphere’s sugary treats were at their stickiest, an accident occurred at Elizabeth, Pennsylvania’s Mars Wrigley…

Help, please, murder: Two workers fall into chocolate vat at Mars Wrigley factory

Sunday night saw 122 puppies, divided into Team Fluff and Team Ruff, compete for glory in Puppy Bowl XIX Last night, a nation gathered to watch some of its finest athletes come together in fierce competition. Bars and living rooms were packed with…

Dog pees during national anthem and other highlights from Puppy Bowl XIX

2023 had barely begun when M&M’s, a brand of chocolate candy, embarked on the most brain-deadening ad campaign we’ve witnessed in some time. First, the company released an all-women mascot package that drew inevitable ire from the Fox News crowd.…

Terrible M&M ad campaign comes to predictable end

AI Radio is a new podcast written and hosted by a pair of bots called Bella and Adam Last Sunday, just as the AI Seinfeld show, Nothing, Forever, was generating itself some transphobic and homophobic stand-up material that would result both in the…

New AI-hosted podcast covers tech news and kangaroo invasions, provides graphic sex advice

Grint and Aldridge, who star in M. Night Shyamalan's Knock At The Cabin, play a horror-themed game of "would you rather?" Rather than assemble two of the stars of Knock At The Cabin for a traditional interview, BuzzFeed UK decided to give its sit…

Rupert Grint and Ben Aldridge talk coffins, ouija boards, and Dave Bautista in horror-themed Q&A

Nothing, Forever has received a 14-day suspension after its AI Jerry delivered trans- and homophobic stand-up material Last week, we wrote about Nothing, Forever, an AI-generated Seinfeld parody whose creators seek to make “a show that can generate…

That AI Seinfeld show has been given a Twitch suspension for generating a transphobic stand-up bit

The film debuted at SXSW, where it clinched a grand jury award. In the new documentary Angel Applicant, narrator-director Kenneth August Meyer presents an interpretation of painter Paul Klee’s work with an insight that few others would be able to…

In the Documentary ‘Angel Applicant,’ a Filmmaker Explores Paul Klee’s Late Work Through the Lens of Their Shared Illness

The French-Korean artist opens up about her star turn in the film, which premiered at Cannes in 2022. Return to Seoul could have been a very different movie without its star, French-Korean visual artist Ji-min Park. The film, which premiered at…

Artist Ji-Min Park on Channeling Her Visual Practice Into Her First Acting Role in the Film ‘Return to Seoul’

South Korean radio station MBC’s broadcast ban of boy band Lionesses’ new song, “It’s OK to Be Me (with Mi-no),” was direct in its reasoning: “homosexuality.” With lyrics like the first verse saying, “The place where finally I live as me, the…

K-pop’s first openly queer boy band, Lionesses, on fighting for visibility in the industry

Among the most difficult tasks a film could possibly tackle, surely “making the audience fall in love with the people who sell babies for cash” would have to be somewhere near the top of the list. It’s easy to feel the ice dripping down the…

Broker Is a Masterful Korean Drama That Challenges You to the Core

The album references artists Yun Hyong-keun and Jackson Pollock, among others. Noted art collector and influencer RM, leader of K-pop boy band BTS, has put his passion for art center stage for his December 2 album release. Indigo, his debut solo…

How K-Pop Star and Budding Mega-Collector RM Wove His Favorite Art and Artists Into His First Solo Album, ‘Indigo’

Netflix is back with a new bag of holiday offerings to distract you from cooking and wrapping presents, and we’ve got the run-down of the best and worst, although this is an exceptionally good batch of Christmas movies. With that in mind, we’ve done…

New Netflix Christmas Movies in 2022 Ranked from Best to Worst

Music concerts can involve factors that trigger a migraine attack. Here are the steps I take to prepare for an event. If you’re like me, you may be thrilled to finally be going out, vaxxed and masked, into the world again. Going to live music events…

7 Tips for Enjoying Live Music Events If You Live with Migraine

RM, the 27-year-old leader of the Korean pop group BTS and an avid art collector and influencer, released a new video on YouTube in late July and several Instagram posts showing off his recent art-related travels and apparent growing art collection…

BTS’s RM reveals the major artworks in his collection, including a recently purchased $1.2M Roni Horn

This article contains spoilers for all eight episodes of A League of Their Own. Prime Video’s A League of Their Own offers a delightful, though rare experience: at times it can be harder to remember who on is straight, rather than who’s gay. One of…

How A League of Their Own Highlights the Vibrancy of Queer Communities

RM, the 27-year-old leader of Korean pop group BTS, has become an avid enthusiast, collector, and promoter of contemporary art. In just the last few months, RM was featured on Intersections: The Art Basel Podcast and he and the other members of BTS…

BTS’s RM Talks About His Growing Influence And Appreciation of Art

Translating a superhero’s costume from page to screen can be tricky business. For a character like Kamala Khan, AKA Ms. Marvel, there’s a lot more meaning imbued in her super suit than simply how cool it looks and whether the actor can eat during…

The Importance of Getting Ms. Marvel’s TV Costume Right

This Ms. Marvel article contains spoilers. In episode 4 of Ms. Marvel, Kamala meets a young man in a red scarf in the Karachi train station who matches her blow for blow, as well as zinger for zinger. But it turns out the mysterious stranger knows…

Ms. Marvel’s Red Dagger Explained: Who Are Kimo and Waleed?

When Korean pop superstars BTS visited the White House in May to talk about the recent spike in anti-Asian hate crimes, over 300,000 people watched the briefing live – compared to a more typical 16,000. The pop group, which announced in June tha

BTS’s RM Has Sent K-Pop Fans Flooding to Art Museums Thanks to His Instagram

This article contains Ms. Marvel spoilers. Ms. Marvel episode 2 Ms. Marvel episode 2 is every bit as charming as the first one, although perhaps slightly less packed with countless MCU references. There’s still a whole lot of ’em, though, and we’re…

Ms. Marvel Episode 2: MCU Easter Eggs and Comics References

Being a fan has been part of Kamala Khan’s DNA since the character was first created for Marvel Comics back in 2013. So it seems only natural that the first fan convention in the Marvel Cinematic Universe occurred during the premiere episode of…

Ms. Marvel’s AvengerCon Is a “Love Letter” to MCU Fans That Could Become a Reality

This article contains some Ms. Marvel episode 1 spoilers. It’s no secret that changing Kamala Khan’s powers has been a big deal to Ms. Marvel fans. In the lead-up to the Disney+ show’s premiere, just about every trailer release or behind-the-scenes…

Ms. Marvel: Why Kamala Khan’s Powers Were Changed for TV

This Ms. Marvel article contains spoilers. Ms. Marvel Episode 1 Kamala Khan has arrived in the MCU with her own Disney+ show introducing us to Ms. Marvel, Jersey City’s newest hero. As a canonical fangirl, there are more Easter eggs than usual in…

Ms. Marvel Episode 1 Easter Eggs: Powers, End Credits, and More!

Warning: contains spoilers for the Conversations With Friends finale. The Conversations With Friends limited series, an adaptation of Irish author Sally Rooney’s debut novel, is a story about the many ways four people come together and fall apart…

The Conversations With Friends Ending Can’t Quite Save This Lukewarm Adaptation

Iman Vellani and her MCU character have lived parallel lives Paralleling the character she portrays, 19-year-old Canadian Iman Vellani is an earnest and talented teenage superfan who has been called up to the big leagues. Not long ago, she was…

Ms. Marvel: Iman Vellani Appreciates the Show’s John Hughes Vibes

From its opening scene and title cards, Pachinko invokes the concept of intergenerational familial bonds, with a woman we will learn is Sunja’s mother outside Busan, Korea in 1915 begging for a curse to be lifted from her bloodline. She talks about…

How Apple TV+’s Pachinko Made the Most of Its Changes From the Original Book

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On: 23 Mar 2023 By: Carrie Cousins Category: Trends Length: 4 min read Sometimes a design trend can start from an unlikely source. Blockchain, a technology designed for secure information transfer, has impacted the online community. From Bitcoin to…

Design Trend: Blockchain’s Impact on Design and Branding

On: 20 Mar 2023 By: Carrie Cousins Category: Accessibility Length: 6 min read Designing for inclusivity and equality is a core principle of many designers. You want to create something that puts people first and is intended to be for everyone. With…

10 Rules for Designing for Inclusivity & Equality

On: 16 Mar 2023 By: Carrie Cousins Category: Business Length: 4 min read Have you noticed that more of your packages may be arriving in eco-friendly envelopes rather than boxes? Or that some packages explain that they are compostable or contain less…

How to Design More Sustainable Packaging

Recruiting board members for your nonprofit board of directors can be challenging. Some folks turn to friends and family, their volunteers, or services like Boardable. The role of a nonprofit board of directors is to provide governance and leadership…

Recruiting Board Members for Your Nonprofit

On: 13 Mar 2023 By: Carrie Cousins Category: Graphics Length: 3 min read You may have noticed a lot of pixelation on the web lately. And it is by design. Pixel art and pixel fonts – a design element that’s not necessarily new – are making a trending…

Pixel Art & Pixel Fonts: How to Work With This Timeless Design Trend

You may have heard of charity scams, but do you understand spam donations? Donor spam is any donation that is fraudulent or malicious where the spammer or spambot creates many donations at the site that are either declined or for very small amounts…

Spam Donations: What to Do About Them

There are distinct differences between crowdfunding vs. peer-to-peer fundraising but both are popular fundraising tools that leverage the networks and social media of to generate donations. Crowdfunding often relies on word-of-mouth and is a…

Crowdfunding vs. Peer-to-Peer: What’s the Difference?

On: 27 Feb 2023 By: Carrie Cousins Category: Trends Length: 5 min read Design elements just seem to be all over the place these days. They respond in a number of different ways, moving up and down, left to right, and even diagonally. Is anyone using…

Are Grids Dead? Why Do So Many Websites Seem to Not Have Them?

On: 23 Feb 2023 By: Carrie Cousins Category: Trends Length: 0 min read Where did all the images go? There’s a major trend right now, where designers are creating homepage hero areas that only include text, but with no images or video. It’s an…

Design Trend: Text-Only Homepages

A nonprofit board of directors guides the mission, strategy, and financial security of an organization. Your nonprofit board of directors is vital to your organization. The board assists with decision-making and keeps your organization moving in the…

Creating a Nonprofit Board of Directors: Everything You Need to Know

On: 20 Feb 2023 By: Carrie Cousins Feature: Procreate Brushes Category: Software Length: 3 min read Procreate is a popular drawing app for iPad and iPad Pro. With the Apple Pencil and the right set of brushes, this app can help you craft amazing…

20+ Procreate Drawing Ideas (+ Procreate Ideas for Beginners)

On: 16 Feb 2023 By: Carrie Cousins Category: Trends Length: 4 min read Softer colors, soothing palettes, and a lighter vibe are what the candy pastels design trend is all about. More projects are using this color scheme to create a subtle and softer…

Candy Pastels: A Soft and Soothing Graphic Trend

We’ll look at how offline donations work and even share a few ideas for how to implement an offline donation strategy as part of your fundraising plans. While having a great tool to help collect donations online can be valuable for your nonprofit,…

Great Ways to Use Offline Donations

You’ve likely heard the phrase “a photo is worth a thousand words.” If that’s true, then so is a typeface. Font selection can greatly impact what you say in through design and how easy it is to read, as well as the emotion and human psychology…

Font Psychology: How to Use It to Create Persuasive Designs

On: 6 Feb 2023 By: Carrie Cousins Category: Trends Length: 4 min read Tropicalism is a design trend that we are already seeing quite a bit of in 2023. You’ll know it thanks to bright colors, fun illustrations, and a breezy feel that makes you think…

Tropicalism: A Design Trend Coming Back in 2023

Donor churn rate is one of the most important metrics for nonprofits to measure. However, it can feel like a daunting task to determine yours – or maybe you just don’t want to! Donor churn, when someone stops giving to your organization, is one of…

What is Donor Churn and How Do You Calculate Donor Churn Rate?

On: 30 Jan 2023 By: Carrie Cousins Category: Software Length: 4 min read ChatGPT might be one of the most talked-about tools of 2023 so far. It has academics worried about cheating in classrooms, writers worried about their jobs, and everyone…

10 Ideas for Using ChatGPT as a Web Designer

One trend that is gaining traction in the nonprofit world is the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in content marketing. Nonprofits are always looking for ways to maximize their impact and reach their target audience more effectively. Using AI in…

Trend Watch for Nonprofits: Using AI in Content Marketing

For many nonprofits, providing a donor impact report can help your donors understand how much they matter – but how do you quantify donor impact? It can be somewhat challenging to tell your story in numbers. What numbers do you share? How do you…

5 Ways to Quantify Donor Impact Reports

On: 16 Jan 2023 By: Carrie Cousins Category: Reviews Length: 2 min read Do you want to ensure that your email lists are clean and verified? emailvalidation is flexible and reliable API that can help to take that burden away from you (and do a great…

Emailvalidation: Automate Processes With an Easy Email Validation API

SUMMER bodies are made in winter, right? Well if you’re already behind the eight ball with that one (don’t worry, us too) it’s not too late to get off the couch and get moving before bikini season hits.
This year’s Bridge to Brisbane promises to be…

The couch potatoes’ guide to prepping for the Sunday Mail Bridge to Brisbane

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CHANCES are you or someone you know is now seriously into a true crime podcast, binge watching a Netflix crime series or devouring a best-selling true crime book right now.
There’s something, it seems, so intensely intriguing about true crime and if…

Psychologists reveal why we’re obsessed with true crime

IF YOU haven’t had the pleasure of enjoying the serenity noise cancelling headphones provide, then you are missing out.
To celebrate our latest digital subscriptions offer that sees you take home a pair, we’ve compiled five reasons you need noise…

Five reasons you need noise cancelling headphones

IN OUR incredibly connected world, it can be hard to remember there was a time when we had to actually physically meet up or pick up the home phone (and use a rotary dial!) to find out what was going on in the lives of our family and friends.
These…

From MySpace to Insta: Look back on 20 years of social media

WE might all be back at work but that doesn’t mean you can’t keep the vacation dream alive a little longer
THE summer break might feel like a distant memory but you don’t have to let that holiday feeling go just yet.
Create your own coastal haven and…

How to keep the summer vacation dream alive a little longer

January is the perfect time of year to make a fresh start for the whole house
THE new year is traditionally a time to refresh and renew. Come January, many of us set fitness goals, career plans, financial budgets and weight-loss targets, although…

Resolve to follow these seven simple tips for a healthier, happier home in 2018

A little consideration for the people over the fence could make all the difference this summer
FOR many of us, the countdown to the summer holidays is well and truly on.
After the chaos of Christmas and New Year is over, Aussies will collectively…

A little consideration for the people over the fence could make all the difference this summer

Our relationship with the traditional dining room is a movable feast.
THERE was a time when, come Christmas, the family would gather in the formal dining room with the ‘good’ china and silverware for a sit-down feast.
But often that room was rarely…

Our relationship with the traditional dining room is a movable feast

ASK any renovator the reason for all of their hard work and often their answers are remarkably similar.
It seems we’re all looking for extra storage, additional space and more natural light.
We’ve uncovered some great rooms that explore creative uses…

These simple solutions to common design problems are ready for the taking

Make your entryway functional and fabulous with these easy solutions.
A simple console table at the entry with a lamp and some carefully chosen art work, can set the tone for your entire home. Picture: Haymes Paint, haymespaint.com.au
YOUR home’s…

Make your entryway functional and fabulous with these easy solutions

As the weather warms up, make sure your bedroom is conducive to a good night’s sleep.
DURING winter, a thick and cosy doona and some fluffy pillows are usually all you need for a good night’s sleep. But as the temperature rises, staying cool enough…

Enjoy nights of sweet slumber with this easy guide to pleasant dreams

IT’S one of the most important design decisions you’ll make about your home so it pays to choose your flooring carefully.
But with new products hitting the market, knowing which type of flooring best suits your family and your space can be…

Let the floor show begin: How to choose the best flooring for your home

Inter-connected furniture from Ikea ensures there is room for everyone. Picture: IkeaSource:Supplied
WOULDN’T it be great if we all had endless space at home for stylish storage, furniture large enough for the whole family to spread out and room for…

How to live comfortably on a compact site

Take the time to consider these golden rules to live comfortably on a compact site.
WOULDN’T it be great if we all had endless space at home for stylish storage, furniture large enough for the whole family to spread out and room for everyone to enjoy…

No one said being part of a stepfamily would be easy - but chances are nobody told you how hard it could be either. When it comes to fairy tales we all know stepmums get a bad rap. In reality it’s a role that requires enormous patience, composure and…

Try these 5 tips to becoming a happy stepmother

PICK up any fashion magazine and chances are there’ll be an article showing you how to “shop your own wardrobe” to find new ways to wear clothes you already own.
But can we apply the same idea to refresh our furniture and homewares?
“It’s absolutely…

You don’t need to go far to find objects and furniture to refresh your interiors

OWNERS: A busy family with four growing boysTHE PROBLEM: An outdated kitchen and bathroom with no flow between spacesDESIGN SOLUTION: Installing a streamlined ceiling, enlarging the kitchen and replacing the shower bath with a spacious show and…

How an outdated kitchen and bathroom with no flow became a modern open-plan layout with more space

IT might feel as though the cold, dark days of winter will never end but as the weather begins to warm up, more of us are looking to extend the use of our outdoor areas well beyond the sun going down.
And while preparing the pool, scrubbing the deck…