WHEN HOLLY MCCAULEY AND NICH Zalmstra first saw the place they now call home, it definitely wasn’t love at first sight. “It was a shitty shack!” Holly says. “It was scheduled for an open house, and we thought, ‘This place is a dump, we’re not even going to bother.’” It was on a steep, overgrown slope, “and the owner was living out the back in a yurt. We just walked past.”
At the time, the Sydney-based couple were in Byron Bay celebrating Holly’s mum’s birthday, dreaming of moving back to the area where they’d met and shared a close group of friends. Although
