In partnership with leading furniture and design brand Fanuli, Belle is delighted to announce the finalists of the 2025 Interior Design Awards. Now in its 15th year, this prestigious program recognises excellence in Australian interior design and decoration.
The finalists of this year’s Belle Fanuli Interior Design Awards Residential Interior category demonstrate beautiful, bold choices and unbridled design flair.
For your chance to win a luxury prize pack, vote for your favourite residential interior in the Belle/Fanuli Interior Design Awards 2025 Readers’ Choice competition.
The Finalists: Best Residential Interior 2025
Leeton Pointon Architects + Allison Pye Interiors: House on a Hill
A multigenerational country home on the Mornington Peninsula, House On A Hill is a celebration of curved forms and natural materials. The interior spaces are light and lofty, with a minimal mix of built-in and freestanding furniture and artworks that speak to the surrounding landscape.
Mim Design: Verdant Residence
Verdant Residence in Melbourne is a Victorian maisonette elevated with contemporary inclusions and complementary colours. The owners, long-time clients of Mim Design, opted for the firm’s expertise in blending old and new in a carefully considered scheme. See the full reveal, here.
SMAC Studio: Queen
Shona McElroy of Smac Studio channelled Hollywood glamour for her renovation of an Espie Dodds home in Sydney. Smart floor-plan alterations, luxe materials and a playful colour palette incorporating bronze and blush have created a new harmony for the clients, who entertain on a grand scale.
Innate Collection: Babylon
Fiona Spence, who launched Spence & Lyda, has applied her inimitable design skills to her own 1950s home in bushland north of Sydney. The interiors have been reimagined with site-specific materials, mid-century furniture and bespoke textiles from Fiona’s own label.
Golden: Temple House
The team at boutique firm Golden took their signature interior style to the renovation of a family home in Melbourne. With a floor plan by architect J Kidman that flows out to a walled garden, the overall impression is living space meets gallery, bathed in contemporary cool.
Richards Stanisich: Headland House
Housed in an Art Deco building, this North Bondi residence was restructured throughout. Great craftsmanship and an adventurous design that will accommodate the family for years to come have given the interiors a sculptural quality while the colour scheme deepens on descent. See inside, here.
Alexander &CO: Emerald House
The brief for this project in Sydney’s east was a balance of practicality for family life combined with the ability to entertain large groups. Added to and reworked, the heritage-listed home has a rich, luxurious colour palette and dark timber flooring as a base for custom geometric rugs.
Kennedy Nolan: Rosherville House
A 1980s brick and tile pavilion on Sydney’s north shore has been transformed from a bland and inefficient home to a luminous and comfortable one, care of travertine, raw clay tiles, cedar panelling, grasscloth and calming tertiary hues of green, blue and umber.
Decus: Dancing on the Ceiling
Overlaying this coastal dwelling’s simple geometry with sculptural forms and new materials, Decus has created a home that is playful yet composed. The elegant elliptical stair is the project’s centrepiece, encased in a light-filtering timber screen.
Greg Natale: New York House
Located on New York’s Upper East Side, this four-storey townhouse by Greg Natale was designed to reflect the owner’s global aspirations and artistic passions. Previously a commercial building, its original two-door entrance was restored and the interiors layered with vintage and contemporary pieces.
Interior Design Awards 2025 Readers’ Choice
