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2009 Show Feature - Home Beautiful Designer Forums

Century 21The Home Beautiful Designer Forums return to inspire you with all the latest trends for furnishing warehouse and apartment spaces.

 

A Different Way of Living.

Convert your living space to open plan, redecorate with fresh new furnishing and colour tones, turn your spare room into your study, or get the ensuite you’ve always wanted. That’s just some of the ideas you’ll gain from this years HIA Sydney Home Show to give you a different way of living. The HIA Home Shows are your home inspiration for design.

Home Beautiful Designer Rooms Series IV

Home Beautiful Designer Rooms Series IV:

Fabulous room sets created by leading interior designers. In 2009, the Sydney designers present the latest trends in open plan warehouse and apartment living. Designer Profiles »

Designer Drinks Bar:

Designer Drinks Bar:

Enjoy a refreshing break and relax while listening to the presentations from the Home Beautiful Designer Forums Stage.

Home Beautiful Designer Forums:

Home Beautiful Designer Forums:

An intimate stage setting to gain expert advice direct from the designers. Talk colour trends, new fabrics, latest furnishings, durable tough textures and more.

SESSION TIMES

THURSDAY
30 APRIL 2009

FRIDAY
1 MAY 2009

SATURDAY
2 MAY 2009

SUNDAY
3 MAY 2009

11:00

It’s Time a Cool Change
Presented By:
Barbara from
Bromley & Tate Interiors

It’s Time a Cool Change
Presented By:
Barbara from
Bromley & Tate Interiors

Why use a professional
interior designer

Kate St James &
Barbara Bromley

Why use a professional
interior designer

Kate St James &
Barbara Bromley

12:00

Kitchen Design Trends
Presented by:
Michael Kitchener of
Kitcheners Kitchens

Home Beautiful
Presentation

Presented By:
Home Beautiful

The Latest Trends in
Apartment Living

Presented By:
Liane Lancaster

The Latest Trends in
Apartment Living

Presented By:
Liane Lancaster

1:00pm

The Latest Trends in
Apartment Living

Presented By:
Liane Lancaster

The Latest Trends in
Apartment Living

Presented By:
Liane Lancaster

The Trade Secrets of a
Great kitchen and
Bathroom

Presented By:
Luke Van Dyck

Products on Show
Panel Discussion

2:00pm

Why You Should
Renovate During
A Recession

Presented by:
Charles Prior

Interior Design:
All Your Questions
Answered

Presented by:
Charles Prior

The Trend To
Urban Living

Presented by:
Donna of
Liquid Colour

The Trend To
Urban Living

Presented by:
Donna of
Liquid Colour

3:00pm

Products on Show
Panel Discussion

Kitchen Design Trends
Presented by:
Michael Kitchener of
Kitcheners Kitchens

Why You Should
Renovate During
A Recession

Presented by:
Charles Prior

Interior Design
Presentation

Presented by:
Craig Medwin Ross of
Habitat Living

4:00pm

Trends In
Outdoor Living

Presented By:
Dean Herald

Trends In
Outdoor Living

Presented By:
Dean Herald

Trends In
Outdoor Living

Presented By:
Dean Herald

Trends In
Outdoor Living

Presented By:
Dean Herald

5:00pm

Urban Living
Showcase

Designer Rooms
Show Case

Urban Living
Showcase

Designer Rooms
Show Case

Urban Living
Showcase

Designer Rooms
Show Case

Urban Living
Showcase

Designer Rooms
Show Case

7:00pm

Show Closes

 

Show Closes

Show Closes

Show Closes

 

Designers on Show at the Home Beautiful Designer Rooms Series IV

Barbara Bromley

Barbara Bromley – Bromley & Tate Interiors

With a background in business and visual merchandising, Barbara Bromley studied interior design at the School of Arts in Chelsea, London.  In 1999 she opened her own business in Australia, taking it from a small white wood store with a staff of two to an interior design business offering custom made furniture, colour consultations and a complete design and fitout service for commercial and residential projects.

 

Over the last 12 years Barbara has designed homes both in Australia and the United Kingdom.  Her extensive travels have seen her working on homes in the English countryside, quaint houses in Boston, pubs in Newcastle and an upper deck of a fabulous boat, now in the Caribbean. Recent projects include waterfront homes and luxury apartments in Sydney and an exclusive B & B in the Hunter Valley.

Bromley Tate InteriorsCurrently Barbara is working with a number of clients in both the colour and design fields and is a regular contributor to Sydney Living magazine.

Bromley & Tate Interiors
P 02 94375354
E bromleytateinteriors@hotmail.com.au 
E barbarasathome@ozemail.com.au

Orson and Blake

Orson & Blake

Orson & Blake’s brand is one of eclecticism, hand-picked pieces from artists and designers around the globe, chosen because of their beauty, dedication to fine design, intrigue and soul.


Orson & Blakes Interior design team can offer beautiful ideas on everything from furniture and accessories to wall colours, flooring, curtains and finishes. Our hand-picked Interior Design team can help you transform your home with flair.


With extensive experience creating beautiful and imaginative interiors both in Australia and overseas, our team are experts in understanding your vision for your project and in sourcing everything required to realise it.

 

Orson & Blake
P 02 8399 2525
E furniture@orsonandblake.com.au

Baxter Creative

Baxter Creative

Professional Interior Design and Decoration with a broad range of services for the residential and commercial client with an emphasis on function, comfort and style. Baxter Creative can design the perfect solution for your space and budget whether it is your home, office, restaurant, café, shop or hotel, working intimately with you to select finishes and furnishings that are unique and individual. 

 

Director, Charles Prior (BA Hons Interior Design, M (Des) Design Management and Design Environments), originally hailing from England, has been working in the Australian interior design field for over a decade.  During this time, he has had the opportunity to do design work on over three continents for both residential and commercial clients, as well as lecture at one of the most prestigious private design schools in Australia.  His projects have included offices, restaurants, private homes, hotels, merchant banks and yachts.  He has also been a regular contributor on design and style for several lifestyle magazines.  Above all, the underlying philosophy Charles has sought to employ in all his projects is that it is possible to achieve beautiful, functional, and stylish results to suit all budgets.
Baxter Creative – the ultimate solution for your interior space.

P: 02 9557 9886
E: charles@baxtercreative.com.au

Habitat Living

Habitat Living

Habitat represents an earthy, textured and organic style of living. Based in Newcastle in the Hunter Valley, the Habitat showroom is no ordinary retail store: customers are led on a visual journey of expertly coordinated indoor and outdoor furniture, furnishings and decoration displayed in the ‘Habitat style’. Like our clients, Habitat is passionate when it comes to quality. We focus on the quality of design and construction, service and performance. We are able to offer a large range of products including custom furniture, rugs, original artworks, soft furnishings and decorator pieces. Our small team of dynamic and passionate decorators + designers specialise in full home and apartment fit-outs, full room makeovers and custom curtains + blinds for both residential and commercial spaces.
P: 02 4952 3887
E: mail@habitatliving.com.au
W www.habitatliving.com.au

 

Kate St James

Kate St. James, DipID, CKD, DipJour, FDIA

Kate St. James is the managing editor of the Home Design + Living Series of magazines including Luxury Home Design and Contemporary Home Design magazines, two of Australia's leading residential architecture and design publications. Along with qualifications in interior design, Kate also studied journalism. Her specialty is architecture and design.


Born in England, Kate St James leads a busy life full of design, journalism and editing, building a prestigious career within the elite design industry in Australia, as both a respected writer , interior designer and design educator.  As managing editor of Universal Magazines Home Design + Living Series, Kate has her finger on the pulse within the design industry and is also a Fellow  of The Design Institute of Australia, an organisation of which she has been an active member for more than twenty years.


Kate’s background was instrumental in providing the necessary qualities for her current role as managing editor of one of Australia's leading niche market publishers of home design magazines. Her vision has always been to promote an awareness of Australian and international architecture and design to demonstrate to the wider community the meaningful way it can impact on our lives.


In 2007 Kate received a citation from the Design Institute of Australia for services to the design industry.  In 2008 Kate was nominated for and included in the Who’s Who of Australian Women – Leadership and Beyond for services to the design industry. The recently released publication marks the lives of women who have made a significant contribution to Australian life, whether at a community, state, national or international level. Each woman’s inclusion is independently considered on its merits and entry into the book cannot be booked or paid for.