Page 113 - Australian House & Garden (January 2020)

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she says, “so my answer was to integrate
the fridge, keep the cabinetry understated,
and to run it outside so the kitchen looks
twice as big as it actually is.” Dulux
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For Suzy, the best thing about the
(weatherboards)
kitchen is its Pitt Cooking burners, which
are set straight into the benchtop. “I’ll
admit I became quite fixated on having
Caesarstone
them!” says Suzy, laughing. “You can Rugged
set them in any formation and we love Concrete
having them in a semi-circle so there’s as (kitchen island)
much Caesarstone visible as we can have.
It makes a difference in a small kitchen.”
Downstairs, there is a family room and Dulux
a soundproofed recording studio for Nick, Alexis Blue
who works as a voiceover artist. This space
opens out to a courtyard and the pool. The
home’s crowning glory, though, is its new
top level. “It has beautiful, wraparound

windows – they really make the space,”
says Suzy. Plantation shutters create
privacy and reference the home’s heritage.
In the main bedroom, the bed is
positioned in the centre of the space, with
the bath set under the bedroom windows.
“It wouldn’t quite fit in the ensuite and
was originally designed to sit where my
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