Champagne Coast.

Stars over Cape Tribulation, Queensland, August 2013.

You know the feeling when you realize how the world has changed you. From the big questions and values in life to the minor details such as which colours you prefer over others. Or preferring poached eggs over scrambled.

At first Australia didn’t impress me at all with its design or style (or what I called a severe lack of style..). But after a year and a bit something changed. The utterly boring, endless combinations of shades and materials began to look interesting. The use of colours is actually beautiful, and very reflective of the surroundings, and shades of clay, charcoal, brown, red and dirt look fascinating. What looked amateurish before now seems like a really good interpretation of Australia. My stay in Northern Queensland certainly opened up my idea of how most of Australia is like outside of Melbourne or any of the major cities. When the green and mild Victoria, and it’s amazing landscapes cross over with the Northern red dirt roads and rainforest, the conclusion is colourful mixture of different surfaces, interesting textures and peaceful, detailed, down-to-earth design. It almost feels like the barriers are ment to be broken; not everything needs to be matte or shiny. Not just either or.

So the minimalistic, stricted and structural, typical Scandinavian has changed more so towards a warm, laid-back, less stressed countryside Australian.

And it might not just be the design that I’m talking about.