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What makes your house a home, a place that denotes your personal retreat, the haven that welcomes you day & night? The stone or timber that makes up your home? The paint or render of your walls? The natural light of day that filters through the trees of your garden, & that reflects from the windows? The path to your door, or a favourite wall lantern to welcome you home in the evening? A plaque that identifies your property? The planter boxes that sit either side of your front door? Or the gumboots that have been on the verandah to dry after walking in the rain with the dogs?

In Autumn & winter, we seek our cosy retreat, in Spring & Summer, we throw open the doors & windows to embrace the warmer breezes & lightness of day extended for all to enjoy...

Regardless of whether the road winds to your door, or sits at the street, a townhouse, country or coastal retreat or intimate studio space...your home welcomes you in...nurture your haven to make you happy, you're now 'home'....

OCTOBER designersecrets workshops...

Series 3 of designersecrets workshops begin next week!!


Once again, we're offering MORNING & EVENING workshops, with the dates fitting in perfectly between school term beginning, & Melbourne's colourful Spring Racing Carnival!


Colour, Window Treatments, Lighting, Art, Bedlinen, Fabrics & Furniture to name just a few interior areas we will be covering, along with other secrets...


Our last workshop was a great success, & our attendees were just wonderful braving the stormy, wintery weather! I will soon be posting photos from our last Series on both 'Haven Home' & 'designandstylesecrets' blogsites, & look forward to sharing these updates with you!


The dates for designersecrets Series 3 are: Wednesday October 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th.
Morning Sessions: 10.00-12.30pm
Evening Sessions: 6.30 -9.00pm


And for those of your who can't make October, Series 4 begins after Cup Week, on Tuesday November 10th, so mark it on your calendars!!


For more information on designersecrets workshops & events, please email me at haven.interiors@bigpond.com to find out more!!

Gelati Inspiration

Hello there! After almost 4 weeks, Haven Home returns. I don't know where the past month has gone, suffice to say, another exciting series of designersecrets has finished, school holidays are midway through, the football season is over, cricket has begun, Spring is well and truly upon us, with Melbourne's racing season about to begin. Gardens are bursting with colour & scent, grass is green, & daylight saving is just around the corner.

Energy abounds to redecorate & reorganise interiors to prepare for outdoor living & festive entertaining, & what wonderful inspiration comes from Spring blooms. Whilst going through my library of interior magazines the other day I came across these beautiful images. such stunning combinations of colour - raspberry, fuschia, gelati pink, mango & strawberry shades- what a perfect way to wake up your home from Winter.

Welcome to Spring time...

Spring is here already...September 1st heralds so many new beginnings...

Longer days, renewed energy & fresh spirits awaken our senses to the burst of colour around us, in our gardens, cooking, entertaining, our wardrobes. Interiors & fashion celebrates with kaleidescopes of rainbow hues in florals & everything brighter than Winter's black...no longer wanting to be cosy inside, it's time to open the doors & windows, & let nature's revitalising touch filter through in colour, fragrance & life. Yes, it's time to shake of the winter blues & embrace the season of Spring...