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Soft gulf-blue painterly coastal wall art styled in a warm-lit heritage South Australian villa room
Coastal Wall Art for South Australian Homes: Gulf and Limestone-Coast Tones
South Australia's coast is quietly one of the most distinctive in the country, and it deserves art chosen for it rather than borrowed from somewhere flashier. This is the state... Read more...
Large coastal wall art styled above a sofa in an Australian beach-house holiday rental living room
Beach-House Wall Art for Australian Holiday Rentals: A Region-by-Region Guide
The photos sell the stay. Anyone who's run a holiday rental or Airbnb knows the wall behind the sofa does more marketing work than any listing description — it's the... Read more...
Turquoise and green coastal wall art styled in a bright, open-plan Queensland beach house living room
Coastal Wall Art for Queensland Homes: Light, Humidity and Colour
Queensland light is unlike anywhere else in the country. From the Gold Coast up through the Sunshine Coast, out to the Whitsundays and on into the tropical far north, the... Read more...
Soft bay-blue and dune-neutral coastal wall art styled in a relaxed Port Stephens beach house
Port Stephens Coastal Style: Bay, Dune and Ocean Wall Art
Port Stephens is really three coastlines in one, and that is exactly what makes styling a home here so interesting. There is the calm, glassy bay side around Nelson Bay,... Read more...
Luminous deep-blue Indian Ocean seascape canvas print styled on the white render wall of a bright Perth beachside living room
Coastal Wall Art in Perth: Indian-Ocean Light and the Blues That Suit It
Perth has a light all its own. Facing west across the Indian Ocean, the city gets some of the clearest, brightest skies in Australia and, most famously, sunsets that turn... Read more...
Tropical coastal wall art in a Port Douglas Queenslander home, with turquoise reef water and jungle-green Daintree tones against white walls and timber.
Port Douglas and Tropical North Queensland Coastal Art
There's a particular kind of light in Port Douglas that you don't get further south. It's the equatorial sun coming up over the Coral Sea, hitting the water off Four... Read more...
Blue coastal photography wall art styled above a sofa in a relaxed New South Wales beach home
Coastal Wall Art for NSW Homes: From Harbour to South Coast
New South Wales has the most varied coastline of any Australian state, and that variety is the whole point when you're choosing wall art. In a single day's drive you... Read more...
Warm green-and-gold coastal canvas print in an Oak floating frame styled in an open Noosa beach house
Decorating a Noosa Beach House: A Sunshine Coast Coastal Art Guide
Noosa is home turf for us — our primary studio is in Noosaville, just along the river — so this is a place I know down to the light on... Read more...
Turquoise Ningaloo lagoon meeting coral reef and white sand on the WA Coral Coast, as coastal wall art
Ningaloo and the Coral Coast: WA Reef Wall Art
Most people picture the Great Barrier Reef when they think of Australian coral, but Western Australia quietly holds one of the most extraordinary reefs on the planet — and it's... Read more...
Deep-blue surf seascape canvas print styled above a sofa in a Newcastle terrace living room
Coastal Wall Art in Newcastle and the Hunter Coast
Newcastle has grown into one of the most genuinely coastal cities in Australia — not a beach suburb tacked onto a capital, but a real working harbour city with world-class... Read more...
Muted coastal wall art styled in a Hamptons-leaning Mornington Peninsula beach house living room with soft blues and greys
Mornington Peninsula Beach-House Style: Wall Art from Sorrento to Portsea
There's a particular kind of light on the Mornington Peninsula that you don't get much further north. It's cooler and softer — silvery in the morning, hazy in the afternoon,... Read more...
Moody black-and-white Bass Strait seascape framed print styled on the wall of a Melbourne period-home living room
Coastal Wall Art in Melbourne: Bringing Bay and Bass Strait Blues Indoors
Melbourne's relationship with the coast is quieter than Sydney's, but no less loved. The bay is a short tram or drive away, the light is softer and more changeable, and... Read more...