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IKEA hacks for the nursery and kids' rooms
Are you one of those that know the whole IKEA catalogue by heart? Love their stuff but want to personalise it? Here's some inspiration to help you realise the potential of IKEA furniture and fittings.
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Tin can craft and DIY ideas
Wondering what you can do with empty formula cans or other tins you've got ready for the recycling? View our gallery of a range of ideas.
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When Brad Kearns's wife was taken to hospital with liver failure, the 27-year-old Aussie dad had to become 'mum' to his two infant sons.
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The great open-plan con job
I, for one, am cheering on this return of the closed-plan kitchen.
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Nigella Lawson: Five dishes every home cook should master
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The food scraps your family should be eating
Did you know that Australians discard up to 20 percent of all the food they purchase?
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Idea of Ikea dismantled
Life is too damn short to struggle so much for furniture.
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Helen Kerry purchased a Thermomix last year to "make life easier." That's not how it turned out.
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