THE EDIT

Should you decorate a rental like it’s your forever home? According to interior designer, Studio Brie founder and Australia’s Best House host Briellyn Turton, the answer is yes. Known for her personality-driven interiors, love of vintage pieces and playful approach to home, Briellyn joins The Edit to talk renter-friendly styling, whimsical interiors, hosting, lighting, TVs, resale myths and why the most beautiful homes are the ones that make everyday life easier.
In this episode of The Edit, host and Home Beautiful Editor-in-Chief Elle Lovelock sits down with Briellyn Turton to unpack how she creates homes with character, comfort and function. Briellyn shares how she uses fashion as a starting point for interiors, why she believes in decorating slowly, how to personalise a rental without waiting for the “forever home”, and the one hosting habit every busy homemaker should steal.
Together they explore why home should feel personal, playful and deeply useful, from where you drop your bag to how you make your coffee in the morning.
Moments You'll Hear:
Briellyn’s take on dressing your home the way you dress yourself
How to personalise a rental with art, vintage finds and moveable pieces
A tour of Briellyn’s much-loved loft-style rental
Why she moved for a courtyard, hosting space, and a bedroom with beautiful light
The empty dishwasher and empty bin hosting rule
What “whimsy” really means in interiors
How Briellyn gets clients to trust their own taste
Why your home should support your rituals, from skincare to coffee
The renter’s dilemma: do you buy for now or forever?
How to de-beige a rental without panic-buying generic furniture
Why downlights should not be the default
What to do when the TV has to be in the living room
The design mistake Briellyn wishes Australians would stop making
Why timeless homes are built slowly, not bought in one Saturday
Thank you for listening ❤️
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Credits:
Our friend: Briellyn Turton
Host Elle Lovelock
Edited by Pro Pods
Producer: Charlie Potter
Consulting Producer Jessie-Lee Klass
Head of Vodcasting Rachel Fountain
Learn More: The Edit is a production of Home Beautiful and Are Media: https://www.homebeautiful.com.au/home-beautiful-the-edit-podcast/
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Follow Briellyn Turton on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/briellynturton/
Explore Studio Brie: https://www.studiobrie.com.au/
Read Briellyn’s Home Beautiful piece on the whimsical era in interiors: https://www.homebeautiful.com.au/home-ideas/2026-interior-trend-whimsical-studio-brie-briellyn-turton/
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What happens after you win The Block, sell the house, have a baby, launch a business and start again?
In this episode of The Edit, host and Home Beautiful Editor-in-Chief Elle Lovelock sits down with Steph Ottavio, architect, designer, founder of Japandi Estate and one half of beloved The Block duo Steph and Gian.
Steph opens up about the pressure of renovating on national television, what she and Gian carried from The Block into real life, and how she renovated her own home while pregnant, with a five-month deadline and her mum living across the road.
But this is also a more personal conversation about the strange quiet that can come after a huge, formative chapter. Steph talks honestly about experiencing “post blues” after The Block, feeling disconnected from purpose, going to therapy, and learning to strip life back to the basics: community, connection, conversation, morning rituals and the little moments that make you feel like yourself again.
Together, Elle and Steph explore what really makes a home beautiful, from decluttered spaces, layered rugs and 12 skylights to the feeling of walking into a home that has been designed for real family life.
Moments You'll Hear:
Why Steph says her home has to be organised so life can be chaotic
What The Block taught her about pressure, outsourcing and working with Gian
How Steph renovated while pregnant and moved in before her baby arrived
The truth about her “post Block blues” and rebuilding a sense of purpose
Why community became the brief for her next home
Steph’s take on Japandi style, character within minimalism and why she does not love cold modern homes
The clever design ideas inside Steph and Gian’s home, including the Jack and Jill bathroom, 12 skylights and a pool craned in through the neighbours
Her rules for shoes, scent, clutter and the design trend she would happily leave behind
Thank you for listening ❤️
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What did you think? We are a brand new podcast and would love to hear from you as we build this together. Join our friendly Home Beautiful community and DM us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/homebeautiful/
🎧 Listen to The Edit and follow on Apple Podcasts
Listen and follow on Spotify
👀 Watch and subscribe to The Edit on Home Beautiful’s YouTube 📺 for full episodes and clips https://www.youtube.com/@HomeBeautifulMag
Credits:
Our friend Steph Ottavio
Host Elle Lovelock
Edited by Pro Pods
Producer: Charlie Potter and Thomas Crnkovic
Consulting Producer: Jessie-Lee Klass
Head of Vodcasting Rachel Fountain
Learn More: The Edit is a production of Home Beautiful and Are Media:
Inside Steph and Gian Ottavio’s stunning home transformation
Steph and Gian Ottavio’s Home Beautiful Tour on YouTube
Steph's Instagram
Steph and Gian's Japandi Estate Instagram

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What actually makes a home beautiful once the cameras leave, the renovation dust settles and real life moves back in?
In part two of our conversation with Wendy Moore, the former Home Beautiful Editor-in-Chief, Selling Houses Australia interior designer and all-round interiors authority invites us inside her own Sydney Inner West cottage. And this is not a polished show-home tour. It's far better.
Wendy takes host and Home Beautiful Editor-in-Chief Elle Lovelock through the hydrangeas, past the dodgy fence, into the side entrance, the light-filled void, the petrol-blue kitchen, the unfinished reading nook now claimed by the dog, and the freestanding bath in the main bedroom that everyone warned her against.
Together they talk about what really works in a home after six years of living in it, from natural light and kitchen colour to family dinner tables, awkward layouts, builder contracts, renovation regrets, vintage silver, fireplaces, bed linen and why the homes we love most are rarely the perfect ones.
Moments You’ll Hear:
· Wendy’s audio home tour of her Inner West Sydney Californian bungalow cottage.
· The clever renovation choice that flooded a dark older home with natural light.
· Why Wendy still loves her petrol-blue kitchen, and what she would rethink about natural stone.
· The reading nook that never got finished and quietly became the dog’s favourite spot.
· The bedroom bath everyone said was a bad idea, and why Wendy loves it.
· The renovation regret she wishes she had budgeted for from the beginning.
· Wendy’s advice on choosing a builder, reading the contract and staying across every dollar.
· How to beat renovation decision fatigue with a moodboard and a clear edit.
· A smart fix for awkward living rooms where the sofa blocks the flow.
· The vintage silver tea strainer and “jam spoon” that became an Antiques Roadshow moment.
· Why the best homes are full of chatter, memory, imperfect corners and real life.
Thank you for listening ❤️
Before you leave...
🗣️ Get in touch
What did you think? We are a brand new podcast and would love to hear from you as we build this together. Join our friendly Home Beautiful community and DM us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/homebeautiful/
🎧 Listen to The Edit and follow on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-edit/id1852946910
Listen and follow on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1y7phZb4CeMhYzFssKZVcq?si=9c224c6461c24caf
👀 Watch and subscribe to The Edit on Home Beautiful’s YouTube 📺 for full episodes and clips: https://www.youtube.com/@HomeBeautifulMag
Credits:
Our friend: Wendy Moore
Host: Elle Lovelock
Edited by: Pro Pods
Producer: Charlie Potter and Thomas Crnkovic
Executive Producer: Jessie-Lee Klass
Head of Vodcasting: Rachel Fountain
Learn More:
The Edit is a production of Home Beautiful and Are Media: https://www.homebeautiful.com.au/home-beautiful-the-edit-podcast/
Part one episode with Wendy:
https://www.homebeautiful.com.au/shopping/wendy-moore-career-selling-houses/
See Wendy’s Home Beautiful home tour:
https://www.homebeautiful.com.au/home-tours/home-tour-house-to-home-beautiful/
Follow Wendy Moore:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wendymooreedit/
The Interiors Edit: https://www.theinteriorsedit.com.au/
🙏 Our special thanks for making The Edit our new home:
Luxaflex - our beautiful studio home curtains
Oz Design - furniture Australians love
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What does a truly beautiful home look like when you stop chasing trends—and start telling the truth? In this episode of The Edit, host (and former colleague) Elle Lovelock sits down with interiors heavyweight Neale Whitaker: the gently opinionated eye behind some of Australia’s most-loved design titles and TV shows, from Belle and Home Beautiful to Love It or List It—and now Reno Rules on Seven.
Together they take an audio home tour of Neale’s “patchwork quilt” South Coast cottage, from the wraparound verandah draped in wisteria to rooms packed with art collected everywhere he and partner David have lived and travelled. Neale shares why he buys art on pure instinct (and why it should never ‘match the sofa’), how he and David blend antique and contemporary tastes, and what ‘dog-friendly’ design actually looks like when the dogs are absolutely allowed on the bed. Plus: the entertaining rituals he can’t give up (candles, music, the perfect table), why being a TV judge doesn’t mean judging your house, and the tiny home edit he wishes he’d made years earlier—one that punches well above its weight every winter.
Moments You'll Hear:
An audio walk-through of Neale’s quirky ‘patchwork quilt’ cottage (yes—there are two front doors).
How Neale buys and hangs art: instinct-first, story-driven, and never matched to the furnishings.
Why a home that’s “perfect” is usually boring—and how to build comfort, layers, and soul.
Designing with dogs: choosing what you love, then problem-solving (towels, throws, and muddy paws).
Hosting without the stress: beautiful table, candles, music… but always relaxed.
The tiny edit with a big payoff: underfloor heating (and the power of lamps in dark corners).
Authenticity over trends: mixing old and new to make a home that feels like you.
This is an episode with permission to ignore trends and buy what you actually love. Confidence that your art doesn't need to match anything. A renewed appreciation for warm lighting and the ritual of turning on lamps. Practical solutions for real design dilemmas. The reminder that homes should feel like you - layered, honest, maybe a little eccentric. And possibly a new perspective on your throw situation.
Thank you for listening ❤️
before you leave...
🗣️ Get in touch
What did you think? We are a brand new podcast and would love to hear from you as we build this together. Join our friendly Home Beautiful community and DM us on Instagram.
Part one episode with Neale: here 🎧
👀 See more
Neale Whitaker Joins My Reno Rules as a Judge in 2026
My Reno Rules Just Gave Us Our First Look
Inside Neale Whitaker’s Country Cottage
The New Season of Love It or List It Australia Has a Release Date
My Reno Rules All The Details For The New Series!

🙏 Our special thanks for making 'The Edit' our new home:
Luxaflex - our beautiful 'studio home' curtains
Oz Design - furniture Australians love
Credits:
Our friend Neale Whitaker
Edited by Propod
Production by Thomas Crnkovic and Charlie Potter
Our wonderful Home Beautiful team
Learn More: HOME BEAUTIFUL

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If you’ve ever stood in your living room and felt nothing, this one’s for you. Stylist, author and TV reno judge Julia Green joins Editor Elle Lovelock to talk about building a home that feels like an autobiography, not a catalogue spread. She went from “peddling drugs” (pharmaceuticals) for 17 years in a job she hated to styling shoots, closing her beloved store and now judging My Reno Rules, all while raising a family and painting every available surface in colour.
Julia is funny and unfiltered about the gap between how interiors look on TV and how they actually feel to live in. She talks about growing up with a mum who let her paint her bedroom walls on a whim, decking out her first flat with no money but a lot of ingenuity, and why she’ll always choose “considered chaos” over safe beige. There’s career whiplash, there’s grief for past chapters, and there’s the quiet joy of realising your house doesn’t have to be perfect to feel like home, it just has to feel like you.
Moments you’ll hear
Julia deadpanning that she used to “peddle drugs” (legally) in pharma for nearly two decades, hating every minute, before a stranger buying her couch told her she was in the wrong job and handed her a Vogue photographer’s business card.

The chaos‑magic timing of going into labour four hours after that conversation and only circling back to the card at the end of maternity leave, a week before she was meant to return to corporate life.

The “I’ve got a new job, I’m a stylist tomorrow” conversation with her husband, despite having no idea what the day rate was and only a Home Beautiful style brief to go on.

Childhood bedrooms that changed colour constantly, a mum who let her paint the walls as often as she liked, and the lesson that home is something you’re allowed to experiment with, not preserve in glass.

Julia explaining why she can’t do white‑on‑white (“I’d last two seconds”) and how she thinks about colour as “deliberate chaos” - surprise without visual shock.

How she furnished her first apartment with basically no budget, just a sharp eye and a willingness to hunt, and why she’s now the stylist who tells people, “Do you really need that?” instead of pushing more stuff.

Behind the scenes of My Reno Rules: judging alongside Neale Whitaker and Simon Cohen, trying to keep two strangers’ styles coherent in one house, and what really happens when communication breaks down on a reno show.

The emotional side of closing her much‑loved store, stepping into a new TV chapter, and figuring out what kind of home she wants to come back to at the end of it all.

Thank you for listening ❤️
before you leave...
🗣️ Get in touch
What did you think? We are a brand new podcast and would love to hear from you as we build this together. Join our friendly Home Beautiful community and DM us on Instagram.
👀 See more
My Reno Rules All The Details For The New Series!
Clever With Colour and Julia Green
Julia Green on Insta 📱
Julia's Website Green House Interiors
🙏 Our special thanks for making 'The Edit' our new home:
Luxaflex - our beautiful 'studio home' curtains
Oz Design - furniture Australians love
Credits:
Our friend Julia Green
Edited by Propod
Production by Thomas Crnkovic and Charlie Potter
Our wonderful Home Beautiful team
Learn More: HOME BEAUTIFUL

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.