Interior Decorating, Home Design, Room Ideas

This red brick barn was built as a guesthouse behind an old miner’s cottage on the outskirts of Castlemaine in Victoria’s goldfields, Australia. Built and decorated by Daniel Burgermeister and Glenny Eastwood, they drew ideas from the surrounding architecture, as well as their regular travels to Europe.

Glenny and Daniel



































Images from here and here.

Today, we are going to Australia to visit Alice Barker and her husband Daniel's cottage, built around 1910 and located in Ballarat, Australia’s largest inland city.

Ceramics they bought in Morocco, Turkey and Thailand can be seen displayed in many of the rooms. Blue-and-white china jars and bowls are grouped on a hall table and on the kitchen mantel, while the dining room dresser displays floral patterned teacups and colourful Moroccan pottery. The fireplaces are original.

Alice and Daniel are both keen photographers. In the sitting room, vintage black-and-white photographs share the walls with images from their travels. One of Alice’s treasures, an old Kodak Brownie camera, is displayed on the mantel beside reproduction copies of 1920s postcards from Egypt on a wire stand.


Daniel and Alice with their daughter, Lucinda.






























All images and information from here.

Heatherlie is a lovely Victorian home in the historic country town of Maldon. Influenced by villas from countryside Italy and France and furnished with pieces collected over years from markets both locally and overseas.



































All images from here.