Build Beautiful
Where design meets depth
Hosted by interior designer and property developer Linda Habak, Build Beautiful is a podcast about more than just aesthetics - it’s about the intention behind the spaces we shape and the stories we tell.
Each episode features honest, insightful conversations with designers, developers, architects, artists, and creative thinkers who are reimagining the way we live, build, and create.
This is a space for the ideas behind the work - the risks, the pivots, the process. The quiet decisions that shape extraordinary outcomes.
Because beauty isn’t just what we see - it’s what we feel.
And what we choose to build, together.
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"Every Project Is Going to Be a New Brief" | Rachel Luchetti on Designing Without a Signature Style
Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Introduction Rachel Luchetti has spent 17 years building one of Australia's most prolific hospitality and retail design studios, Luchetti Krelle, without ever settling on a signature look. In this episode, we talk about responsiveness, designing for feeling over awards, and what it has meant to build something in her name, in her way, on her terms. In This Episode We Explore * Why having no signature style is the strategy &...
30 Sept 2026
The Breakdown That Became a Breakthrough — Alexandra Kidd on Rebuilding a Life and a Business
Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Introduction In a small studio above McClay Street in Potts Point, Alexandra Kidd has spent more than 20 years shaping how Australian homes can feel. What began as a solo practice has grown, slowly and deliberately, into an all-women studio of twelve. But beneath the elegant, celebrated work sits a story most successful founders never tell: a breakdown at the end of 2018 that stopped her mid-conversation on a building site, and the slow, hone...
16 Sept 2026
"Energy Over Empire" — Simone Mathews on Choosing to Build Smaller
Send us your feedback, thoughts or comments! Introduction Somewhere along the way, ambition began to look like a larger studio, a bigger team, a longer list of projects. Simone Mathews, founder of Soul Home, decided to walk the other way. Alongside her builder husband Ben, she's quietly built one of Australia's most interesting design and development practices, including Soul of Gerringong, The Bower and The Pause. In This Episode, We Explore: * Why she rejects ...
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