Darren Palmer's Almost Home

This week, Darren Palmer heads to Palm Beach, Australia to hang out with award-winning designer and surfboard innovator Hayden Cox, founder of Haydenshapes Surfboards, whose FutureFlex surfboard technology helped flip the surfboard world on its head. They dive into surfing, surfboard design, creativity, and building a home with nothing but instinct, curiosity and bold vision. Along the way, you’ll...

Darren joins his friend and design icon Steve Cordony in his Sydney apartment, to explore the early inspirations behind Steve’s farmhouse in the hills of Orange. As Steve reflects on Rosedale Farm with Darren, they discover how our childhood experiences shape the spaces we create, and how caring for our inner world is just as vital as shaping our outer one. Together, they explore the intersections...

This week, you’ll meet journalist & author Brooke Boney who is Darren’s first guest in between homes as she returns to Australia from studying at Oxford University. Together they explore all the nuances of what it means to be ‘home’, and after Brooke’s life changing decision to leave the Today Show, more importantly WHO makes us feel at home. Find Brooke at @boneybrooke and pick up her book ‘All O...

This week, Darren Palmer sits down with his old friend from Australia’s year 2000s drag queen era Shane Jenek, known by the world as Courtney Act, to recount his childhood home in Queensland, crossing paths with Lady Gaga and what home is looking and feeling like to him right now.  Follow Shane on IG @courtneyact and find his book ‘Confetti and the Rainbow Garden’ here: https://www.booktopia.com.a...

This week, Darren Palmer is joined by his friend and colleague Scott Cam, host of The Block, for a conversation about life before and after the spotlight, and what home means to him. From his early life and Bondi upbringing to being talent-spotted in a pub in his thirties, Scott reflects on the values of craftsmanship, family and hard work that have shaped both his career and the homes he’s built...

This week on Almost Home, Darren Palmer sits down with his friend and one of Australia’s most loved journalists, Allison Langdon (A Current Affair, 60 Minutes, Today). They share stories from their country-town upbringings to lives that have taken them far beyond their comfort zones, and how those roots continue to shape who they are today. Ally opens up about family life and her love of entertain...

This week on Almost Home, Darren Palmer visits design duo Josh and Matt Design, the Australian creators known for their DIY home transformations, dopamine décor and maximalist interiors. With over six million fans, they share how living and working together under one roof has shaped their creativity, mental health and ideas about what home really means today, proving that whether you own or rent,...

This week on Almost Home, Darren Palmer visits beloved TV host and pop culture icon Myf Warhurst (Spicks and Specks, Bluey) in her character-filled Melbourne home, where nostalgia, music and personal style all come together. Darren and Myf chat about the stories behind her love of music and the memories that shape her space, celebrating authenticity, sentimentality and the joy of design with heart...

For the dreamers still making it home, welcome to Darren Palmer’s Almost Home. New Episodes each Tuesday from October 7 Darren Palmer’s Almost Home is powered by Shark If your home away from home was a podcast, it would be *Almost Home with Darren Palmer*. An insightful and heartwarming series hosted by Aussie interior designer Darren Palmer. Each week, he sits down with an inspiring guest to disc...