Australian Country Homes

FAMILY FOCUS

It’s little wonder Jo and Kyffin Thompson’s friends jokingly refer to their Adelaide Hills home as “the resort”. Visitors to Aramoola arrive to a landscape filled with Australian native plants and a coach-lamp-lined driveway guides them to a quaint, vine-clad English cottage. When Jo and Kyffin started their family, they lived in Stirling, near Aldgate, in the Hills. “It was a beautiful place and we renovated it,” Jo says. “But it was on a sloping block, which was always frustrating.” They navigated their young family across the treacherous entrance steps through the baby and toddler years but after Jo

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