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On her first ever trip to Australia, Stephanie Davies (owner of La Boheme Lifestyle) visited the NSW Central Coast with her husband Nikolas Davies (owner of ND Skin) and they decided to stay. The Scottish couple purchased their current North Avoca home in 2015, which has recently undergone a massive transformation designed by Fabric Architecture and Studio Highfield, with builder Hudson Lane.Taking inspiration from villas in Italy and Spain, the updated house incorporates textures, curves, and unique forms, creating a truly one-of-a-kind family home!A career opportunity saw Stephanie Davies, owner of La Boheme Lifestyle, and Nikolas Davies, owner of ND Skin, move to Australia in 2014. It was supposed to be just a two year stint, but nine years later, the couple are still here with their children Marlowe Rose (9) and Zanna Dawson (6).Stephanie and Nikolas rented in Terrigal, before purchasing their own home in North Avoca in 2015. They’ve made some changes to the property over the years, starting with a makeover of the pool area, before a recent major transformation of the ground floor.Continue reading…
Motel Molly
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With its sun-soaked pastel facade and curved pool rimmed with sage-and-white striped umbrellas, guests arriving at Motel Molly would be forgiven for thinking they’d been transported to Palm Springs or stepped into a Slim Aarons photograph.It’s a far cry from the property’s past life as a run-of-the-mill motel and holiday rental — and a welcome designer addition to Mollymook’s thriving hotel scene. Located just three hours from Sydney on the New South Wales South Coast, the newly reimagined 16-room hotel has all of the benefits of its laid-back seaside location with a distinct faraway feel. And that’s exactly what interior design and architecture firm Richards Stanisich set out to achieve. Zellige-clad sunken baths are reminiscent of Moroccan riads, powder blue longboards channel Malibu vibes and the pastel exterior evokes the sorbet-coloured coastline of Cinque Terre. Continue reading…
Windsor Herritage
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Property developer, urbanist and shopkeeper Linda Gregoriou cannot understand why you’d go for a Hamptons look if you don’t live in the Hamptons. Or why you’d have a formal parterre garden out the front of a simple worker’s cottage. She is obsessed with sense of place: with identifying and then respecting the unique set of qualities and characteristics that make a place what it is. It’s as if knowing where you are helps you know who you are. ‘What does it mean to be Australian? It’s a question I ask myself all the time,” said Gregoriou. And you can’t find the answer in chain stores that could be anywhere in the world.Growing up in the beachside Melbourne suburb of Brighton with a Cypriot-Greek father and an Anglo mother descended from the well-known West Australian Sharpe pastoral family, Gregoriou has always known being Australian could be many things.She was called a wog, even though her mother’s family had been in Australia since 1840. She looked like a Cypriot, but didn’t identify with a lot of the migrant families around her because her father had moved to Australia to attend Melbourne University.“I was kind of in no man’s land, not an Anglo-saxon or a migrant.”Read more….
