100 Beautiful ROOMS

Celebrate a century of style with us as we reveal the design secrets behind some of our favourite, fabulously fashionable rooms

- PRODUCED BY KATRINA YAXLEY | WORDS CHRIS PEARSON

For 100 wonderful years, Home Beautiful magazine has celebrated and championed homes that represent all that’s best in Australian interior design. To mark this momentous milestone, we present a spectacular showcase of 100 style-filled rooms to inspire and inform. This visual feast of colour, texture and pattern is the second instalment — watch out for the third in our November issue.

1 SPRING IS IN THE AIR

Under a pitched pyramid ceiling, this space is a de facto conservatory. Immersive allusions to nature abound, including lush green architraves, plus floral and trellis motifs. Designer Amy Spargo used Milton & King ‘Petite Ivy’ wallpaper to set the scene, while the checkerboard floor, gold accents, turned timber furniture and sash windows lend an elegant Georgian country house air. Even the pampered pooch approves. Amy Spargo, Maine House Interiors, mainehouseinteriors.com.

2 EASY BEING GREEN

We love how interior designer Anna Spiro uses vibrant colour and contrasting patterns to magical effect. This kaleidoscopic room (this page), in a Brisbane interwar bungalow, is no exception. Even the ceiling joins the party with a fabulous Pierre Frey 'La Pannonie' floral wallpaper. It's in joyful juxtaposition to the striped rug, the armchair in Turnell & Gigon 'Bannister Hall' fabric and lampshade in Anna's own 'Grandma's Quilt'. “We like to do things that are outside the box,” she says. The walls are colour-blocked in Dulux Apium as a counterpoint to that fabulous energy. Anna Spiro, annaspirodesign.com.au.

3 WALK THIS WAY