New Rural: Where to Find It and How to Create It

by Ingrid Weir

How do you design your life? New Where to Find It and How to Create It is an interiors book for a new way of living that combines the space and freedom of rural existence with the connections and opportunities of the modern world. This stunning photo-filled hardback is a guide for those dreaming of moving to the country; inspiration for anyone who craves touches of rural magic and cottagecore in their home – wherever that may be; and it is a window on the distinctive allure of Australia's vibrant regional towns.

Authored and photographed by interior designer Ingrid Weir, this creative book is much more than a manual or compilation of pretty interiors. New Rural includes profiles of towns that embody authentic and original rural living, offers guidance on how to find and create it yourself, and detours to subjects such as bringing the outside in, having friends to stay, mixing the old with the new, the importance of texture, and why food eaten outside tastes better. This is a book about place and space, meaning and connection. It exists at a unique intersection, bringing together Ingrid's expertise from film and television, interior design and her personal project renovating the old schoolmaster's house in the gold-rush town of Hill End, New South Wales.

Get lost between these pages and wander through new ways of living.

Genres: Nonfiction

272 pages, Hardcover

Published November 30, 2021

Reviews

[Kara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fully inspired to go traveling around Australia to find these rural gems and equally inspired to get on the rural roads of America again.

[Book Lover · Rating 5 out of 5]

Exceptional book on living as a city thinker and doer in many beautiful accessible rural areas of Australia, with most close to a town or commuting to a Sydney or Melbourne to Mudgee or Hobart. I loved the personal profiles these home creators as very diverse. Amazing you could put a lifestyle book together during the pandemic but well done on showing me some inspirational places…making me jealous of what it would be like to live and wake up every morning in these dreamy settings. Real insights into the modern Australia way of life and other ways to live… makes me feel that anyone could do this. The writing and photography by Ingrid sets a lush tone. Can’t wait for the next one!

[Deirdre · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful design book houses of Australia and Tasmania. Some of the rooms remind me of our rural and western style except for there will be an old print of a kangaroo or a cockatoo or something antipodean. Just tweaked a little more toward English sensibility. but beautiful rooms and I wish I was there because they recommend places to go and stay and I can’t go there.

[Betty · Rating 2 out of 5]

No creatives, beautiful homes or beautiful “new rural” locations outside of New South Wales or Victoria apparently, apart from a couple in Tasmania. Disappointing. Shelter by Kara Rosenlund is a much better choice.

[Nola · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really loved this book, Ingrid takes you on journey to rural communities together with interviews of creatives who have left the city for the idyllic life in the country. Only disappointment focuses on NSW, Vic & Tas. Hopefully a 2nd book is in the offering with trips to Qld, SA & WA.

[Stephanie Fazio · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely beautiful and inspiring!

[Vicki · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m not very good at writing reviews. But I thoroughly loved this book!! On to this author’s new one !!