The duo behind the loved Melbourne restaurant has a habit of turning home spaces into hubs of food, wine and good times – where everyone’s a welcome guest.

The Melbourne-based comedians and actors first met when they were cast in Legally Blonde The Musical. Now they perform together around the world, and their next stop is Adelaide Fringe.

Every engagement and wedding ring tells a love story. Cushla Whiting and Nicholas Hawker make some of those stories happen working side-by-side on her eponymous jewellery label. And the life they’ve crafted together is a bit of a gem.

The spark was immediate for “larrikin Aussie” Scott. Brazillian de Matos now can’t imagine life, or work, without him.

They met at a Canberra music festival – 12 years later the couple juggles parenting duties while making wine, selling ceramics and thrifting homewares.

They fell in love over Bourke Street Bakery’s lemon curd tarts. Now the couple live together in Sydney’s inner west, and even though their schedules are busy, Tuesday takeaway night is “sacrosanct”.

They met at the doors of a comedy club four years ago and have been making each other laugh – and keeping each other in check – ever since.

The arts power couple share a home in Fitzroy, a merle poodle called Top Chef and a venn diagram of the films they can watch together.

He’s an art director. She’s a marketing specialist. Together they have a child, an idyllic home and a homewares business named for their favourite family mealtime.

She’s an in-demand set and costume designer. He’s an award-winning documentary maker. They met in a theatre foyer and moved to the Blue Mountains for their dream home.

Chef Sandra Seah loves to cook. Designer Jordana Adams loves to eat. It’s a match made in food heaven, and here’s how it happened. Plus their tips on the best ways to enjoy crispy chilli oil at home (including a very spicy Bloody Mary).

They met on a film set and were best friends before falling in love. Now the directing duo own a film production company together, have a kid, and live in a home in Melbourne designed by an influential contemporary jeweller.

They met at 4am on the dance floor at a NYE party. Both work in the arts, but one’s organised and the other is more carefree. The couple shows us their beautifully designed Surry Hills home.

They met at culinary school in London. After years of working in Michelin-starred restaurants, a long-distance stint in their relationship and moving their lives from the UK to Australia, the duo opened Madeleine De Proust, a Melbourne bricks-and-mortar bakery dedicated to madeleines.

Their Day Trip travel book series encourages people to explore hidden adventures in their own backyards, and was inspired by a romance that flourished off the beaten track.

Being open to change is an everyday mantra for this loved-up couple. Together they’ve taken on parenthood, business-building and intense creative projects. Plus, what it means for Jahufer to come out as a trans man.

They met over dumplings and their love language is snacks. Now the cultural power couple call a Brunswick apartment home – it’s decorated in “maximalist Australiana” style, and filled with keepsakes from their relationship and creative lives.

The glam artistic duo live together, create together and perform together across Australia and the globe – sometimes dressed as sexy kangaroos, always flying the flag for queer love, joy and freedom (and Kate Bush fandom). Broadsheet visits the couple’s studio ahead of their biggest show to date.

Fennessy works behind the lens to capture the architectural shapes of Australian venues, and Lillico is a “gun for hire”, styling sets and interiors for brands such as Country Road and David Jones. They live together in a mid-century property on the edge of the Yarra River.

He’s in one of the most successful Australian bands of the last decade, she’s an emerging film writer-director with a stacked acting resume. From their bright inner-west home in Sydney, they share how a newfound creative partnership brought them closer together.

For the globe-trotting entertainers, a former gospel hall in Adelaide felt like the right place to finally put down roots. They share it with a boisterous Irish setter and artworks from loved ones. Here, they tell Broadsheet how the silver linings of the pandemic helped their business stay afloat.

This industrial design duo are partners in work and life. We dropped in to their sunlight-flooded home on a chilly winter morning to talk inspiration, process and the art of cosiness.

An exquisitely renovated beachside Masonic temple provides the perfect haven for ACO musicians Richard Tognetti and Satu Vänskä, partners in love and life.

This musical couple discovered that home is where the recording studio is.

She describes her style as “hyper-clash salad” and he’s more ordered, but this arts writer and artist both explore the unknown in their work.

Sharing a passion for dance, this globe-trotting duo have made their home in the heart of Sydney.

Filmmaking is a family affair for this close-knit team.

How do you keep a creative marriage inspired? Start a podcast and broadcast the hard stuff.

The director-actor duo shares how they sustain a film career in Adelaide.

Our visit to the home of two authors is an insight into a novel partnership.

The design duo on DJing together and winning Oprah’s praises.

We visited the Bangalow home and Byron Bay showroom of the couple behind homewares brand, Pampa.

Inside the Hamilton home of a Brisbane fashion power couple.

The husband-and-wife duo combine creative passions to document their travels.

This design duo brings nature (and childhood memories) indoors.

Like the perfect mixtape, this couple’s work/life balance is the result of careful curation.

This DIY Brisbane couple have found the perfect balance of work and play, managing their creative projects around stable nine-to-fives.

Having a child made this musical couple more organised.

Inside the home of the design power couple.

One’s a photographer, the other designs clothes. This Sydney couple's shared aesthetic and support of each other has played a huge part in their longevity and growth.

Photographer Mark Roper and food stylist Deb Kaloper may not be romantically attached, but they still finish each other’s sentences. We chat to them about collaboration, having fun on the job and bringing The Broadsheet Melbourne Cookbook to life.

We pay a visit to the leafy, sunlit home of Sophie Tatlow and Bruce Slorarch of Utopia Goods, where their love for Australiana and design shows no bounds.

We step into the home of a wallpaper maker and a homewares designer to find out what makes them tick.

We step into the wunderkammer that is jewellery designer William Griffiths and fashion designer Alice Edgeley’s upstairs apartment, and are told stories of resuscitating old chandeliers and topless dancing.

Violinists with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Matthew Tomkins and Pip West don’t just make beautiful music together.

Sometimes you wake up next to your colleague and other times you wake up next to your partner. Such is the nature of living and working together for Jac + Jack designers Jacqueline Hunt and Patrick Blue.

Aaron and Maryanne Moodie – an Etsy designer and a tapestry weaver respectively – share the story of how they first met, plus some stuff that happened after that.

Interior designers and entrepreneurs Marcus and Daniella Balscheit chat to us about how they’ve kept their three businesses and a marriage alive for more than two decades.

Inside the home of husband-and-wife designer Tristan Ceddia and jeweller Adriana Giuffrida, Broadsheet learns about work life balance when neither partner works nine to five.

Waangenga Blanco and Tara Gower have toured the world with Bangarra Dance Theatre and have spent the past six years working together. So why did it take so long for them to become a couple?

We chat with Susan and Gordon Tait, the creative couple at the helm of the proudly Australian furniture label Tait, on the key to celebrating 21 years in the business.

We’re getting to know a few creative couples around town that span a cross-section of inspiring career and ambitions. This time around, we meet with Kate Denborough and Gordon Wilson – a duo who have shared family life with the stage and the big top for over 15 years.

We’re getting to know a few creative folk around town that span a cross-section of inspiring careers and ambitions. The third in our series is a couple with an appetite for innovation - Berry Liberman and Danny Almagor at Small Giants.

In a new Broadsheet series, we’re getting to know a few creative folk that span a cross-section of inspiring careers and ambitions. The second in our series are husband and wife duo Ben and Brenda Briand – a couple with a yen for collaboration.

In a new Broadsheet series, we’re getting to know a few creative folk that span a cross-section of inspiring careers and ambitions. First up are filmmaker Benjamin Gilmour and stylist Kaspia Gilmour, a husband and wife team with a penchant for travel.