Advice

Uplifting your home has never been easier. In our advice section, you’ll find practical interior design advice, home styling tips, renovation advice, gardening ideas and cleaning hacks. Whether you’re building, renovating or simply refreshing a room, Style Curator is here to guide you.

Style Curator is a leading Australian interiors blog read by hundreds of thousands of people each month. Our motto is simple: create a home you love. Founded by Interior Designer Gina Beschorner, the blog covers all aspects of home improvement and home decoration.

Many of our advice articles include input from industry experts. We call on architects, interior designers, lighting specialists, landscapers and more to share their best tips. For example, our article on how to prepare your home for sale features advice from prominent renovation experts. Our guide on how to landscape your garden includes insights from one of Australia’s top landscape architects.

You’ll also find some of our most popular design advice here. Readers love our guide to designing the ultimate laundry, our must-know kitchen design measurements, and our tips on choosing the right kitchen splashback tile.

If you’re looking for outdoor advice, we have you covered too. Explore articles on the best plants to grow in pots, seasonal gardening guides and ideas for creating an epic outdoor play area for your child.

We also share plenty of home styling tips. Think curated décor round-ups, bookshelf styling ideas, bedroom decorating tips and more. If you’ve ever wondered how to style your home like a designer, this is where you’ll find the answers.

The aim of Style Curator is always to help you create a home you love. If there’s anything you’d like advice on that we haven’t covered, we’d love to hear from you. Email hello@stylecurator.com.au to request an advice article and we’ll get working on it.

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Styling your investment property, how to make it look a million...

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We regularly share advice and tips for styling your home on the blog but what about styling your investment property? It’s a challenge a reader...

Considerations when buying a home, what’s important?

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Top 9 ideas to display indoor plants

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5 ideas to steal from restaurant interiors

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We get interiors inspo just about everywhere and recently it's restaurant interiors and cafe fit outs that have really been impressing us! Here are our...

Julia Green’s tips on adding greenery to your home

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5 festive Christmas table setting ideas

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Advice on selecting the right garage door with Delta

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Supported by Delta-Warringah Garage Doors If you’re building or renovating, you’d know there are a million and one decisions you need to make. From selecting...

Top 10 tile trends for 2016

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Are you building or renovating and feeling a little lost when it comes to selecting tiles? It can be a daunting task. Especially given...

Tips and tricks for styling your bed from stylist Jessica

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Jessical Bellef, head stylist at Temple & Webster, styles hundreds of shoots each year for the Australian homewares website so she sure knows a...

DIY pantry declutter: Tips to organise your pantry

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Supported by The Reject Shop When did you last declutter your pantry? If like me your pantry has gotten a bit out of hand and...

8 tips to creating stylish budget kitchens

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How do you renovate your kitchen on a budget? It's one of the top questions we get asked and today we're so excited to...

Behind the scenes with Jessica, head stylist at Temple & Webster

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Ever wonder what it’s like to be an interior stylist? It can sound like such a glamorous job, having the chance to play around...

Latest Spring interior trends during a weekend of style at Westfield

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This weekend we had fun with latest season homewares and bedding while hosting a series of styling workshops at Westfield Belconnen. In collaboration with...

Spring 2015 interiors inspiration

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HOORAY!!! Spring is here and we're equally excited about the new wave of homewares and interiors inspiration as we are about the warmer weather! Speaking...

Bringing art into your home, Julia Green covers the important points...

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We hear all the time about how important it is to have art in the home — adding interest and dimension. Yet selecting art...

What to consider when buying a rug, Julia Green’s advice

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Leading Australian stylist Julia Green has styled endless magazine covers, product photo shoots and interiors for private clients so who better to ask for...

How to create a winning interior by The White Room Interiors

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Interior decorators Alex Butta and Rohan Mummery from the newly launched The White Room Interiors are with us to share their expert advice on...

White, grey and copper bedroom, get inspired

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You've probably heard us say on more than one occasion that the bedroom is one of the most important rooms of the house to...

Where I started when designing and building our new home

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The other day I received an email from a reader who was about to start renovating two houses, with different objectives, and described herself...

How to style a small room

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Many of our readers have written in to say their biggest interiors challenge is how to style a small room! We decided to bring...

Mini trend: Stylish wall shelves

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An interiors and home trend that’s making its way into every room of the house this year is wall shelves. From the kitchen and bathroom,...

Top 5 fixes to improve a room by The Real Estate...

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Sometimes we can have a room that we can’t seem to get right. You know what we’re talking about, that difficult space that just...

Kitchen planning: See Gina’s kitchen ideas

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OK, this is the space I'm finding the trickiest to commit decisions but I can't put it off any longer! You might have read in...