Welcome to A Bird’s Eye View – The Nest & Bird Journal

For movie nights, Friday dinners and the sofa everyone ends up on. There's a good chance your sofa is one of the hardest-working pieces of furniture in your home. It's...

No snow, no matching knits, just good things worth keeping. It's 11pm on Christmas Eve, and someone is kneeling on the lounge room floor wrapping presents with the wrong sticky...

Ask someone about their favourite thing in their house and it's rarely the sofa. It's the painting they carried home on their lap from a holiday, or the print their...

The short answer: spend where you touch it every day. Linen, a good bowl, a proper throw, one piece of real art, and something that makes the bathroom smell like...

I’ve always been most interested in homes that give you little clues about the people who live in them. The slightly odd thing brought home on holidays. The painting bought...

When we moved to the Mornington Peninsula, I knew where we were going to live. I knew where the kids would go to school. I had a house full of...

There are plenty of beautiful homes on television. Architect-designed beach houses. Grand old Queenslanders. Living rooms so perfectly styled you'd be afraid to sit down. And yet one of Australia's...

There are some questions people ask when they find out you've moved interstate. "Do you miss Sydney?" "Do you like living on the Mornington Peninsula better?" For a long time,...

Australian interior style isn’t defined by a particular sofa, colour palette or decorating trend. It’s defined by a feeling. The best Australian homes are relaxed rather than formal, connected to...

I have a soft spot for staying in, but I love it most in July. When there is nowhere warm to put your feet. When the floorboards are cool beneath...

A collaboration with Stylist and Photographer Caroline Moseley.  When Caroline Moseley published her article Beyond the Marble Kitchen, I read it twice... maybe even three times. It put words around...

The best housewarming gifts don’t look like they came from a department store shelf. They feel considered. Handmade where possible, beautifully made, and chosen with the person and their home...