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Maya Chen
Principal stylist
Maya trained in interior design, then spent a decade helping people live with what they already had. She leads every composition and still unpacks the boxes herself.
About the studio
A Bundaberg studio for rooms with a past, and a future.
We style houses that are already lived in. The work is part edit, part composition, and part knowing when to leave a chair exactly where it is.
The story
Collected slowly, then arranged with care.
Harbour & Pine Interiors is a two-person styling practice on Bourbong Street. This season we are working through a run of Wide Bay Queenslanders — quieter palettes, less furniture, and rooms that still feel like the people who live in them.
The name comes from two things we trust: the calm of the Burnett river mouth, and the timber that still holds most of these rooms together. We buy locally when we can, borrow from what the house already owns, and keep a short list of makers we return to.
People
The two of us.
Portraits are omitted on purpose. The work is the rooms, not a likeness.
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Tom Hale
Project lead
Tom keeps the calendar, the tradies and the budget honest. He has a particular talent for making a one-day refresh actually finish in a day.
How we work
A few things we keep coming back to.
Edit first
Most rooms are improved by taking something away. We start there, before anyone shops.
Keep the architecture
A Queenslander already knows what it wants to be. We style with the light, the timber and the veranda, not against them.
Buy once, well
When we add a piece, it should still feel right in ten years. Trends are useful only as a quiet reference.
The studio
Start with the room you live in most.
Tell us how you live, and we will tell you what the space is asking for. Consults start with a short visit or a set of photographs.