brydie@janegormandecorators.com.au

  Picture this: you have just finished a kitchen redesign. The countertops are gleaming, the paint is fresh, and everything looks exactly as it did in the mood board. Then you open the dishwasher door and it slams straight into the oven handle. The new island, which looked perfect on the floor plan, creates an

Interior design conversations about bedrooms tend to focus on how the room looks: the palette, the bedhead, the layering of textiles, the quality of the morning light. These things matter, and getting them right is part of what the team at Jane Gorman Decorators spend a great deal of time thinking about. But there is

Most bedrooms are not badly decorated. They have a nice bed, reasonable furniture, curtains that more or less work, and walls in a colour that seemed right at the time. And yet they do not feel restful. There is a quality of unease that is difficult to name but immediately felt, a sense that the

There is a particular kind of disappointment that sets in a few months after a bathroom renovation is complete. The room looked exactly right in the mood board. The tiles were perfect. The stone was everything. And yet something is slightly off in a way that is difficult to name, until it becomes obvious: the

There is a version of luxury bathroom design that looks extraordinary in photographs and feels quietly uncomfortable to actually use. All marble, all white, all hard surfaces and recessed lighting and not a single warm note anywhere. It is the bathroom as architecture rather than as room, impressive from a distance and oddly alienating up