Better Ideas

Better Ideas

A weekly lifestyle series Hosted by Peter Colquhoun, where he chats with experts, enthusiasts and the Better Homes and Garden TV crew to make your home...well.... Better.

18 minutes 54 seconds

EP 22: Turn your white box of a house into your Carolyn Burns McCrave how she transformed her current home from a standard off the shelf package white box of a home into a designers dream home.Designer Carolyn Burns McCave and House Rules Mentor for seven years talks openly about what her favourite design style is and how she transformed a standard off the shelf package white box to and a designers dream home.

Designer Carolyn Burns McCave and House Rules Mentor for seven years talks openly about what her favourite design style is and how she transformed a standard off the shelf package white box to and a designers dream home.
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3 September 2019, 5:00 pm
20 minutes 43 seconds

EP 21: Summer holidays Beach Safety with Craig Riddington then Angus Rain gives us his tips for keeping the peace with the family holiday home.

Summer is a long way off but its never to early learn to how to be safe in the ocean, legend Ironman and surf lifesaving hero Craig Riddington drills down on water and beach safety, and then Rain & Horne executive chairman Angus Rain gives us some practical advice for keeping the peace with the family when it comes to holiday homes.
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27 August 2019, 5:00 pm
19 minutes 5 seconds

EP 20: Secret Passions - Ed Halmagyi talks photography

Have you got a secret passion? Ed Halmagyi maybe Fast Ed in the kitchen but his other passion is photography, with a great eye behind the lens he gives his tips on making your photos “Instra” appealing and quite a few little professional hacks to get your started.
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20 August 2019, 5:00 pm
25 minutes 14 seconds

EP 19: Art Dealer Nichola Dare from ‘Aboriginal Contemporary’ Art gallery gives us her insight to buying Aboriginal artwork for the home.

Art Dealer Nichola Dare explains how you can discover the history, cultural and the stories behind ‘Aboriginal Contemporary’ artist. This Sydney gallery has art work from the strident ochres of the Kimberley to untamed abstracts from the Western Desert, with emerging artists to some of Aboriginal art’s biggest names.
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13 August 2019, 5:00 pm
26 minutes 47 seconds

EP 18: Merilyn Wilson Beretta setting up the home office to maximise your productivity and Carolyn Burns-McCrave tips on creating your dream house.

Merilyn Wilson Beretta Business coach returns to give her tips on setting up the home office and how to create the perfect space and maximise your productivity. And Carolyn Burns-McCrave from House Rules tells us her private tips and tricks on how to turn a white box of a home into your dream home without breaking the budget.
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6 August 2019, 5:00 pm
27 minutes 46 seconds

Ep 17 Leading Business advisor and mentor Merilyn Wilson Beretta talks working from home.

Did you know that at least 90% of businesses fail in the first few years? Leading Business advisor and mentor Merilyn Wilson Beretta explains how to be productive and what you need to make it work when you’re working from a home office. As it turns out we talk in depth about our own ‘inner office’ aka a working from home mindset.
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30 July 2019, 5:00 pm
25 minutes 41 seconds

EP 16: Wrapping up the Sustainability conversation with Kristen Junor from Reverse Garbage & Adam Woodhams from Gardening Better.

We are wrapping up the Sustainability conversation with Kristen Junor from Reverse Garbage to talk refuse, reduce, reuse and recycle and Adam Woodhams from Gardening Better podcast talks sustainably through the lines of generational history and what we can learn from pass generations. I also check in on his new home renovation and if he is managing the sustainability of the build.
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23 July 2019, 5:00 pm
22 minutes 50 seconds

EP 15: The Art for everyone with Tim Olsen Olsen Gallery and Artist Marisa Purcell

Its all about buying Art for the home on Better Ideas this week, with traditional and contemporary art expert and gallery owner Tim Olsen from Olsen Gallery and artist Marisa Purcell guiding us through buying original Art on all budgets. Peter also gets a free art appraisal on one of his paintings.
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16 July 2019, 5:00 pm
19 minutes 43 seconds

Ep 14: Ed Halmagyi breakdowns some of the myths of slow cooking & Grahame Rowe talks sustainable garden design.

Ed Halmagyi breakdowns some of the myths of slow cooking, giving his tips and somewhat of a science lesson on how to transfer bland into grand. And Grahame Rowe from Better Homes and Gardens team takes Sustainable living into the garden with his take on sustainable garden design.
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9 July 2019, 5:00 pm
25 minutes 57 seconds

Ep 13: Sustainable Living, Horticulturist and sustainability specialist Adam Woodhams & Tasmanian Pig Farmer, TV presenter and restaurateur Mathew Evans continues the sustainable conversion.

Horticulturist and sustainability specialist Adam Woodhams from our sister podcast Gardening Better gives his tip and some environmentally friendly ideas on sustainable gardening. Then Tasmanian Pig Farmer, TV presenter and restaurateur Mathew Evans continue the sustainable conversion on eating meat and how we can all live a little more sustainable even in a big city.
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2 July 2019, 5:00 pm
23 minutes 51 seconds

Ep 12: Jason Hodges talks living off the grid & House Rules design mentor Carolyn Burns-McCrave talks all things design.

Jason Hodges takes sustainable living to a new level talking about living off the grid, baths in the paddock and the bog drop. Then we go from sustainability to reality TV with the Tiny Designer Princess Carolyn Burns-McCrave from House Rules, who lets us in on what her job on the show really is. Plus Peter finds out that they strangely agree more on what design styles mean then disagree.
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25 June 2019, 5:00 pm
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