Australian Country

Out of the box

By her own reckoning, Katie Riddell has been an interior decorator since childhood. She constantly rearranged furniture and has clear recollections of her nine-year-old self disliking the wallpaper in her bedroom so much that she peeled it off.

In her real professional life, however, Katie worked as a lawyer for 20 years before finally listening to her inner voice and embarking on an interior design course two nights a week at TAFE college. “It took a while to transition

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