Issue 10

Australian Country Homes

A collection of Australia's finest country homes

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Editor
I love our gorgeous country and its infrastructure. From the sprawling historic homesteads to the eco-friendly pods, there’s something about Australian country homes that I cannot resist. Perhaps it’s the people. They often say they’re at the heart o
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Editor Lauren Clarke Design Bianca de Ocampo Features Editor Cassandra Elliott Photography André Elhay, Ken Brass, Paul McCredie, Ross Williams, Anastasia Kariofyllidis, Jessica Howard Contributors Emma Sutcliffe, Kirsty McKenzie, Lauren Clarke,
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Marketplace
The Richmond Deluxe range from Belling is the perfect asset for country-style kitchens and homes. Rated the number-one oven brand in the 2019/20 Finder Retail Awards, Bellings’ Richmond Deluxe range includes classic-style cookers with modern features
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Good Things, Small Packages
Family and friends are near and dear to Elizabeth Raupach’s heart. That’s just one of the reasons she and her husband, Mark Lloyd, decided to construct a tiny home on their 90-acre (36 hectare) property located near the popular South Australian wine
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Bathing Beauty
When the mercury rises, tourists flock to the well-known waterfront suburbs of the Mornington Peninsula to enjoy a relaxed walk along the beach. On the way, they’re bound to pass some of the 600-odd rustic wooden boatsheds that dot the coastal sand d
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Recycled Retreat
When New Zealand architecture student William Giesen went to Bordeaux University in southern France in 1997, he was following his passion for rugby rather than his career. But the move yielded unexpected results when he teamed up with fellow architec
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Family Focus
It’s little wonder Jo and Kyffin Thompson’s friends jokingly refer to their Adelaide Hills home as “the resort”. Visitors to Aramoola arrive to a landscape filled with Australian native plants and a coach-lamp-lined driveway guides them to a quaint,
Australian Country Homes4 min readFashion
Benchmark Beach Shack
Kerry Mosey’s future in fashion was sealed from the age of six, when her grandmother taught her to sew. She progressed quickly from making clothes for dolls to garments for herself and other family members and headed straight from school to Adelaide’
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Out Of The Box
By her own reckoning, Katie Riddell has been an interior decorator since childhood. She constantly rearranged furniture and has clear recollections of her nine-year-old self disliking the wallpaper in her bedroom so much that she peeled it off. In he
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Hygge Inspired
It’s a little piece of Denmark on the flat volcanic plains of Victoria. Kathrine Andersen calls it her Nordic hut, and the small-scale garden room certainly conjures up romantic images of mulled wine in front of a cosy fire — just on a patch of sun-w
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Spiked With Style
Bubbly chatter and belly laughs greet my arrival at a shiny red front door. It’s ajar so I pop my head into the hallway to a storybook vignette — an artfully arranged succulent, an antique map of Australia hung on vintage wallpaper and a cute cane ch
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The Ties That Bind
It was meant to be. When Caroline Gabriel and Shaun Bowden went looking for a property in Melbourne’s near countryside, their wish list included a reasonable train commute to the city, a town with a strong sense of community and culture and a variety
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Pastiche Of The Past
The Brennan children know the drill. It just wouldn’t be a weekend in the country without a couple of property inspections. So when The University of Sydney health sciences professor Patrick and his wife, Elizabeth, headed to Mudgee for a weekend get
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Bohemian Bliss
Hanging on the wall in the entry of the cottage owned by artist Amica Whincop and her husband, Clayton, is the original deed to their property. It’s signed by a gentleman called Henry Devine and dated 1890. Horse-drawn wagons would have lugged the lu
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Hinterland Haven
Before the sun shoots its first rays of golden morning light across the crest of the Blackall Ranges, Sally Herniman is quietly slipping on her gardening clogs and padding out the pale-pink front door of her cottage to enjoy a sunrise ritual among he
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Country Creative
As Heather Cohen tells her story, she went to Tasmania to buy property and ended up with an 1885 cottage in her home town of Glen Innes in the NSW New England region. But then again, Heather has never been one to take the obvious route. “It was a lov
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Sophie’s Patch
Challenging conditions make you a better gardener, according to Sophie Thomson, gardening consultant, author, columnist and presenter on ABC TV’s Gardening Australia program. “After all, 90 per cent of Australia has harsh, arid conditions,” she says.
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The Joy Of Storage
When it comes to quality storage, one of our favourite items this season is the Valentino buffet with a white-wash finish. This versatile product looks at home in a beach-themed cottage or a contemporary apartment thanks to its simple construction an
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The Art Of Life
The éclairs are inedible. It’s not that the cream is sour or the pastry has lost its puff, or even that the chocolate has melted, it’s more that the sheer scale and size of these gooey planks of deliciousness makes them impossible to eat while mainta
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Lucky Mistake
For Jenny Linn Craggs and her family, a mistake in the address for a house auction newspaper ad caused a happy accident. With 30 days to vacate their former home and nowhere to go with their three little boys, the Craggs found themselves in a dilemma
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Mountain High
Driving through the picturesque hinterland village of Maleny in southeast Queensland more than 20 years ago, Betty and Terry Stokes fell in love with a beautiful block of land, which looks out towards the Glasshouse Mountains. “We practically bought

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