Summertime Bliss Comes Easily in This Newly Built Queensland Coastal Home With a Year-round Holiday Vibe
The relaxed coastal home of Karen, David and their fluffy friend Ruby (pictured below), has a modern palette of calm tones, textural layers and gorgeous vintage pieces. Setting the mood for what lies on the two levels below, the entrance features a decorative mirror from One World and a timber bench from Eclectic Style that showcases memories, mementoes and finds picked up by Karen, who is a keen decorator. “Because I’m not great conceptually, I sort of endured the design phase to get to the decorating phase,” she says. One must-have in the recently built home was a pool, allowing David to take a dip after a surf (opposite).
LIVING ROOM
The heart of this home is undoubtedly the central living space – “It’s my favourite place,” says Karen – with considerable engineering going into its design to allow for a six-metre opening to the stunning outdoors, with a disappearing glass door. “We really do feel like we’re outside a lot of the time, with the benefit of being sheltered from conditions year round.” As the chef in the house, David’s favourite spot when hosting is the kitchen (opposite), cooking up a storm. “He’ll be in there making us tapas, all night!” says Karen. Overhead pendants from One World add a chic touch.
Karen and her husband David have been living in their beachside abode on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast for more than a year, yet Karen still can’t quite believe she now calls her favourite holiday destination home. “Every year as a family we’d spend a month over Christmas here, and our summers at the beach are my fondest childhood memories,” she says. “It was my dream to live here and we’ve finally done it!”
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BRING TO LIGHT
A DULL AND UNINSPIRING HOME IS REINCARNATED AS AN IDYLLIC SEASIDE ABODE FOR A FAMILY OF FOUR
CALI CLASSIC
TAKING INSPIRATION FROM THIS BUNGALOW'S EXTERIOR, A COUPLE REVIVED THE INTERIOR WITH CALIFORNIA SOUL
SEA CHANGE
A DATED PROPERTY IS TRANSFORMED INTO A FAMILY'S FOREVER HOME WITH A FRESH BLACK AND WHITE PALETTE
Paradise found in LOS CABOS
ON THE POINT OF THE BAJA CALIFORNIA PENINSULA, THE DESERT MEETS THE SEA AT THIS AWE-INSPIRING MEXICAN OASIS
THE gardener's LOG
With only one month until spring is officially here, August is the last chance to give your plants a winter prune and shape your garden for summer
COME RAIN OR SHINE
It took two months of dedicated, daily work to transform an almost bare yard into this contemporary garden
BOLD STROKES
DARE TO EMBRACE THE DETAILS THAT MAKE YOU DIFFERENT FOR A KITCHEN DESIGN THAT FEELS PERSONAL
CREATIVE connections
THE RENOVATION JOURNEY OF THIS BANGALOW HOME TOOK A EUROPEAN-INSPIRED ROUTE BACK IN TIME
SET IN STONE
WITH ITS ALLURING MIX OF MATERIALS AND ERAS, THIS HOME OFFERS A MASTERCLASS IN ENDURING STYLE AND ELEGANCE
Escape time
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