Issue 23

Australian Country Homes

A collection of Australia's finest country homes

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From The Editor
Welcome to another issue of Australian Country Homes. The warmer weather is finally here, and as the flowers are starting to stretch their blooms toward the sun, we are spending more time outdoors. Yes, we’re thoroughly enjoying the sunshine, which i
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Marketplace
Spring has sprung, but that doesn’t mean the end of chilly mornings. Staying warm and cosy is easy with the Merino Cashmere Dressing Gown from Smitten Merino. This Australian-made robe is incredibly warm and luxurious and made from cashmere merino-bl
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Editor Lauren ClarkeDesigner Sally Woodward-HawesContributors Kirsty McKenzie, Ken Brass, Daryl Hull, Ross Williams, Bronte Camilleri, Robyn Alexander, photography Greg Cox/Bureaux, production Sven Alberding, Nicole Mulloy, Danielle Townsend Advertis
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Casual Cool
Holidaymakers around the world have become ever more style conscious — after all, who wants to spend their hard-earned time off in an aesthetically challenged space furnished with hand-me-downs? That said, it can now seem as if the pendulum might hav
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Bold And Beautiful
The very best houses aren’t just buildings placed on blocks of land. Rather, they’re homes that reflect the surroundings from which they rise, complementing them instead of simply casting them in shadow. This home on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula i
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Movement At The Station
It’s shearing time at Tuckokcowie Station near Warooka on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula, so the little shed on Richard and Lee-Anne Murdoch’s farm is buzzing with activity. The Merino flock, which is spread across the property’s home block and ne
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Work In Progress
They say the way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. And that is precisely how Jo Little and Gary Brown are going about renovating their historic home at Yankalilla. “We’d been hunting for a cottage as a bolthole from Adelaide for a while,” Jo
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A Proud Tradition
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but the portrait of William Dawson Grubb that hangs in the hallway at Strathroy in northern Tasmania is only an opening gambit on the life of an extraordinary man and his considerable contribution to the state
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A Cornish Pastiche
It’s the kind of contention trivia buffs love. As anyone who was paying even minimal attention in primary school history class will attest, Edward Hargraves found Australia’s first gold just west of Bathurst in 1851, thus starting the inaugural gold
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A Grand Affair
At first, Jacquie McPhee didn’t even tell her closest friends about the new love in her life. She’d emerged from a rocky romantic period with little option but to sell the monastic stone villa she and her previous partner had lovingly created on the
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Back To Life
Built in 1881, Arrowfield is a fine example of an architect-designed gentleman’s manor. The local council heritage-listed house was in need of a major restoration and the previous owners had not invested in the property for many years, a fact that wa
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Arts And Antiques: 101
If you’re new to purchasing antiques and art or if it’s been a while since you’ve dabbled in that space, getting reacquainted with the way the market works can be daunting. In the world today, we are comfortable with searching and buying online for e
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Bathing Beauty
1. Pt Cartwright bathroom vanity, RAW Sunshine Coast rawsunshinecoast.com.au 2. Eden Clay bathmat, Linen House linenhouse.com.au 3. Natural vegetable soap, Buckley and Phillips Aromatics buckleyandphillips.com.au 4. Phoenix Vivid slimline
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Bathroom Beautiful
With an avalanche of ideas coming at us from magazines, home renovation shows, blogs and social media sites, we don’t have far to go to find inspiration for our bathrooms. We’ve come up with the top 20 trends we believe have durability. Creating a so
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Win Big!
In this issue of Australian Country, we’ve got 15 prizes to give away to 15 lucky readers, from premium air-conditioning and trendy art to cutting-edge furniture and stylish flooring. For a chance to win one of these home must-haves, all you have to
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A Phoenix Rises
For the people of Marysville in Victoria, life would never be the same after the holocaust of Black Saturday, 2009. Penni and Tony Thompson count themselves lucky, however, as although most of their property was devastated by the inferno that raged a

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