Bring the outside in: how to style your home to make the most of nature

This contemporary home maximises its location with outdoor rooms and picture windows With its seamless indoor and outdoor living spaces, and its Australian owner, this contemporary family home is more Brisbane than Britain. Tucked behind a suburban street, the plot, which formerly housed garages, is bordered by a stream with parkland beyond and surrounded by greenery. "When I get back from work I'm greeted by views of woodland, and the sounds of water and birdsong; it's instantly calming," says ...