ADVICE

Uplifting your home has never been easier with our top interior design, styling and renovation advice. Whether you’re looking for expert design advice to help you build or renovate, styling ideas to turn your house into a home, gardening tips or cleaning hacks, look no further than Style Curator’s advice section.

Style Curator is a leading interiors blog read by hundreds of thousands of people each month. Our motto is create a home you love. Founded by Interior Designer Gina Ciancio, she and her team cover all aspects of home improvement and home decoration.

We call on leading experts to offer input into many of our advice articles. These experts include architects, interior designers, lighting experts and more. For example, prominent renovation experts shared their top tips for our article on how to prepare your home for sale. And our guide on how to landscape your garden has input from one of the best landscape architects in Australia.

Most popular advice articles

In the design space, some of our most popular advice articles include our guide to designing the ultimate laundry, the kitchen design measurements you need to know, and advice on picking a kitchen splashback tile.

For outdoor advice, our most popular articles include the best plants to grow in pots (especially popular amongst renters and people with smaller courtyards), seasonal gardening guides, and how to create an epic outdoor play area for your child.

We also have you covered when it comes to styling your home. For example, we have a comprehensive round up of the top items in home décor. You’ll also find plenty of styling tips like how to style a bookshelf, bedroom decorating ideas and so much more.

Find the answers to all your burning home styling and design questions on Style Curator.

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The aim of the Style Curator interiors blog is to help you create a home you love. If there’s anything you would like advice on that we haven’t covered, we’d love it hear about it. Send us an email at [email protected] and we’ll get working on it asap.

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A classic beauty: A look through this stunning all-white kitchen

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Top stylists spill their cushion styling secrets

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How to have a great experience working with an architect and...

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DIY wool wash recipe: Make your own wool wash at home

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Buying property? Here are 5 tips for saving on your home...

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Supported by Savvy For many Australians, buying a home is the biggest purchase they’ll ever make — and most will take out a home loan...

8 of the best ways to use art to style your...

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How we installed a glass floor to ceiling shower screen panel:...

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One of the best decisions we made in our recent bathroom renovation was carrying the glass shower screen all the way from the floor...

How to pick artwork for your home: Expert tips to get...

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We absolutely adore art. It elevates a room, creates a focal point and is a true expression of your style and influence. But we...

How to kill ugly wall paint: Expert tips to cover strong...

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Small space gallery wall: Tips to create a small gallery wall...

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Supported by Popic When we think of gallery walls, we naturally think of large walls with an assortment of frames filled with photographs and artworks....

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Terrazzo, pink, gold… a truly dreamy bathroom reveal

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Top 10 products for minimalist interior styling

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Ever wondered what the 'must have' products for minimalist interior styling are? That's exactly what Louise asked us and we thought it would make...

Product review: What do silk pillowcases do and why you need...

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Supported by Manchester Collection Silk pillowcases have been popping up in every corner of the web so I decided to test out silk pillowcase set...

Speed cleaning: How to have a clean house before lunch

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Supported by Maid2Match Maybe you’ve got guests coming over for a long lunch, or your in-laws are dropping by for a surprise visit. Or maybe...

How to decorate your bathroom: Bathroom styling tips and tricks

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An often-forgotten room in the home when it comes to styling is our bathroom — yet it’s generally the first room we go to...

Clever kitchen storage in this contemporary kitchen renovation

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When it comes to any room in the house — especially the kitchen — storage is key. We take a look around this contemporary...

Fridge organisation: How I took my fridge from disgusting to dreamy

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Confession time, the most disorganised (read: disgusting) area of my home up until recently was my fridge! I would just place items in there...

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