If you’ve ever stared at a paint swatch until it went blurry and thought, maybe I’m just not a ‘design person’, this conversation is for you. In this episode of The Edit, alongside Editor Elle Lovelock, we sit down with design editor, author Greg Natale, interior designer and TV regular on Home Made and The Renovators, known for bold, glamorous, pattern‑heavy interiors that somehow still feel totally livable.
“Once you form that starting point, it is easier to start a concept and that answers all those questions you have.”
Greg Natale
Greg has built a career using pattern on pattern, marble on marble, late ’70s glam and yet he’ll be the first to tell you your home doesn’t need to look like a showroom to feel beautiful. He talks about growing up obsessively collecting Home Beautiful, sneaking his first project into the magazine via his sister’s townhouse, and why your kitchen and sofa should work harder and age better than your latest trend purchase.
“I know this is hard to imagine or understand, but my own personal style is actually quite clean. That’s really what I do, I put layers over clean lines.”
Greg Natale
In this conversation, Greg and Elle step inside the real questions you bring to your group chats and Pinterest boards: how to make colour feel grown‑up, how to design for three generations under one roof without losing your mind (or your resale value), and what to do when your ‘neutral for now’ turns into ‘neutral forever because I’m too scared to change anything.’
Greg breaks down the late‑’70s references behind his own apartment, how he layers burgundy, midnight blue and mixed metals without it looking like a costume, and shares the one rule he’s more than happy to break: that maximalism can’t be livable.
Listen now: This episode of The Edit is available via the iHeart app, homebeautiful.com.au, or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch below or listen here. /
The Edit podcast from the team at Home Beautiful is supported by OZ Design and Luxaflex.
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