“I wanted people to sit on the other side of the island and have chats with me while I’m cooking, and I wanted to be able to see into the family room. I can see the whole back garden when I’m in there, and it’s just lovely,” says homeowner Kate.
It’s about your rituals, not resolutions: How Tara Dennis resets her home (and head) each New Year
What's one thing everyone can get rid of at home as they go into the New Year?
On this episode of The Edit, Home Beautiful editor Elle Lovelock invites you to join an important chat about what we actually want to do in the new year. Joining Elle is one of Australia’s most trusted home experts, Tara Dennis, to talk about something more realistic than resolutions: rituals that actually work.
Tara shares how she resets her space and her head when the year has left everything feeling a bit too full - drawers, diary, and brain included. Instead of colour-coded chore charts and impossible routines, she walks Elle through small, repeatable habits that signal “you can exhale now.”
In this episode, we also meet expert buyer and marketer Paula Cincotta from OZ Design Furniture, who has a razor-sharp merchant brain and a designer’s eye for how we really live. From scouting international showrooms to curating the latest sofa trends and hero coffee tables for local homes, Paula talks through colour, curves and clever styling ideas she's learned on her travels that make big trends feel surprisingly achievable with no renovation required.
