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catch the sun

you’d be forgiven for thinking this sun-drenched home was sitting somewhere along the Mediterranean with its mock-Grecian turret, sweeping staircase and Moroccan-style doors. Instead it’s a 1980s villa in Sunshine Beach, a town just north of Brisbane, designed and built by local artist John Cummins and his wife Veruschka, who had modelled it on Mediterranean villas they had stayed in.

Interior designer Nina

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