What if the secret to a happier home is being able to smell your neighbour’s burnt toast?

Recorded live at Metricon’s National Love of Design Summit, this bonus episode brings together four of Australia’s most exciting designers and makers: Ali Whelan of Breathe Architecture, Michael Leung of Balanced Earth Architects, Neil Hipwell of Futureflip, and interior designer James Treble, fresh off the plane from Milan Design Week. Expect a basement golf simulator that’s brought a whole street together, a skate bowl built for rainy days, and a very strong case for waving at your neighbours through the window. 

Home Beautiful Editor-in-Chief Elle Lovelock sits down with Ali, Michael, Neil, and James and together, they get honest about what it really feels like to push boundaries with clients and councils, and why a beautiful home is about so much more than how it looks. 

This episode is brought to you by Metricon.

Moments You’ll Hear: 

• Why pushing boundaries can be frustrating, thrilling and deeply rewarding all at once 

• How to know when to push a trend a client isn’t ready for, and when to hold back 

• The “burnt toast” theory: why small moments of friction make a home feel alive 

• The basement golf simulator that brought a whole street together 

• A skate bowl built for rainy days, and designing homes people actually want to gather in 

• Building community the old-fashioned way, through barn-raising and hempcrete 

• Why Australian design is turning heads on the world stage at Milan Design Week 

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This bonus episode of The Edit was recorded live at Metricon’s National Love of Design Summit. A huge thank you to Metricon for welcoming Home Beautiful into a room so full of ideas. https://www.metricon.com.au 

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Credits: 

Our charming guests: Ali Whelan (Breathe Architecture), Michael Leung (Balanced Earth Architects), Neil Hipwell (Futureflip) and James Treble (interior designer & colour expert)

Host Elle Lovelock

Edited by Thomas Crnkovic 

Supervising Producer Leah Porges

Head of Vodcasting Rachel Fountain 

Our wonderful team at Home Beautiful

The Edit is a production of Home Beautiful and Are Media: https://www.homebeautiful.com.au/home-beautiful-the-edit-podcast/