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Other People's Homes

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Other People's Homes by Sandy Weir offers an engaging exploration of diverse interior designs and architectural styles, providing readers with inspiration and insight into unique living spaces. It showcases various homes, each reflecting the personality and creativity of its inhabitants while emphasising personal expression through decor. This book is ideal for those looking to refresh their own surroundings or appreciating the art of home design.
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You might enjoy this book if you're fascinated by home design, the stories behind personal spaces, and the unique charm of diverse living environments. This guide offers a peek into the intimate world of how others decorate and inhabit their homes, sparking inspiration for your own interior creations.

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Classic mid-century, Art Deco, migrant and beautifully unique homes from across the country, snapped by viral social media account, Other People's Homes. For fans of The Block, The Castle and nostalgic Aussie architecture.

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I adore perving at Australia's quirky and under-appreciated architectural underbelly through Sandy's stalky lens. - Tim Minchin

A delightfully curated collection that celebrates the eclectic, the innovative, the showstoppers, the elegantly decaying, and the quirkily heartwarming homes hiding in plain view. This book showcases the houses that remind us of where we grew up or where we wanted to grow up. What's captured here is a snapshot of a disappearing Australia.

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"In a world of influencers showing their pneumatic lips and bums, Other People's Homes is a refreshing Instagram site. A sneak peek into those unique houses, which might not be heritage listed but they're national treasures nonetheless." - Brendan Jones, Jonesy and Amanda

"Fascinating and delightful. If I was a house, I'd want to be in this book." - Cal Wilson

"A magnificent celebration of Australian suburbia. It captures the eclectic array of architecture and design from all corners of the country, reflecting the essence of our rich diversity and history. Sandy is to be congratulated for documenting this precious treasure-trove." - Georgie Gardner

"A sublime celebration of the weird and wonderful places we call home." - Jacinta Parsons

Other People's Homes is my favourite comforting reminder that despite mass efforts to be homogeneous, a person can't help but try to build a castle in the middle of a suburban block." - Natalie Tran

"What started as one of my favourite Instagram accounts is now one of my favourite books. An immersion in the beauty and awe that is suburban Australia from a time gone by." - Samantha Wills

"There's no place like other people's homes." - Samuel Johnson

Other People's Homes allows us to be what we all are at heart: nosy. Its purposeful curation of Australian abodes lets us have a stickybeak and celebrate the eclectic nature of this country's suburban infrastructure, while appreciating the difference between a house and a home. - Maria Lewis

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781922992048

Publisher: Affirm Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 November 2023

Country: Australia

Imprint: Affirm Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 155.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 224

About the Author

Sandy Weir started working in the Australian book trade in 1988 after a few years in retail following disastrous HSC result. Sandy technically lives in country NSW but is most often found anywhere but there, looking over fences.

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