ROOF DECK
Long lunches and evening dinners by the fire take place here. The fireplace was crafted by a local builder. A pergola area provides shade if things get too hot.
Loop chairs by Gloster. The coffee table was made out of
EXTERIOR
Built in the 1980s, the house has a turret on top where you get amazing coastal views
POOL AREA
The swimming pool was originally on ground-floor level but it was rebuilt to be on the first-floor level to link it in better with the main living spaces.
Smoked oak decking, Millboard. Forrest lounge chair by Kett, Cosh Living. Anchorage concrete coffee table, Coco Republic
home profile
THE OWNERS
Nina Caple, director of interior design studio Anchor&Belle, her husband Nick, a property lover and developer, and their two children Lachie, 14, and Mia, 13, plus their Border collie Kanga.
THE PROPERTY
Designed and built in the 1980s in Sunshine Beach, Queensland, the two-storey house has three en-suite bedrooms, a rumpus/games room and a double garage on the ground floor. Upstairs there's a main bedroom suite, kitchen, living room, dining room, laundry, powder room and roof terrace.
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