FROM PETER MADDISON
Dec 20, 2017
2 minutes
PETER MADDISON EDITOR-AT-LARGE
As you peruse this issue of Grand Designs Australia, you’ll notice that outdoor entertaining features heavily. We Aussies love our outdoor connection, whether it is a large grass-covered backyard or simply a small deck in an apartment. Connection to the notion of “the great outdoors” is part of our psyche.
As Dorothea Mackellar wrote in her bush poetry of 1908 was written when she was only 19 and it summed up our attitude to Australia’s special landscape and consciousness. This has filtered through to our housing type progressively over the last 100 years, and has accelerated with the understanding of how to make outdoor areas more comfortable to inhabit.
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