Homes & Gardens

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT

For seasoned interior designer Kate Walker, renovating her own home was a timely reminder that simplicity and restraint often produce the most uplifting results. When she first saw her Eighties bungalow in Mount Martha, a seaside suburb an hour southeast from Melbourne, the temptation was to virtually tear down the yellow brick-veneered ‘ugly duckling’ and start again. But she

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