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  • Grand Designs Australia

    Island Life

    Dec 20, 2017 3 minutes
    WORDS // LOUISE SMITHERS PHOTOGRAPHY // AARON JONES

    ED’S FAVE THE WALL OF LOUVRE WINDOWS LOOKING OUT OVER THE SEA

    DETAILS

    HOUSE PICNIC ISLAND BEACH HOUSE

    LOCATION PICNIC ISLAND, COLES BAY, TASMANIA

    DATE COMMENCED OCTOBER 2015

    DATE COMPLETED JANUARY 2017

    COST $600,000

    THE TASMANIAN BEACH SHACK TRADITION CAN BE TRACED TO THE SOUTHERN END OF PIRATES BAY, WHERE ARCHITECT ERIC ROUND BEGAN CONSTRUCTING SHACKS IN THE MID-1930S

    WE LOVE THE 98-YEAR-OLD AIR-DRIED AND ROUGH-CUT CALIFORNIA REDWOOD PLANKS ON THE BEDROOM FLOOR
    “THIS LITTLE BUILDING LOOKS LIKE IT HAS BEEN ON THE ISLAND FOREVER, SITTING UNOBTRUSIVELY IN A SEABIRD COLONY WITH ITS COPPER

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