homebodies

Sometimes the things meant for you appear when you’re not even looking for them. Nina de Vries and her husband, Bo Bagshaw, had no intention of buying a house when they acquired their two-bedroom timber miner’s cottage on the outskirts of Brisbane 10 years ago. “We were pretty young and kind of irresponsible,” she says. “A friend of Bo’s mum was selling the place and I had a small inheritance from my grandmother – just enough for a small deposit, and it seemed the right thing to do.” They were living in the city and couldn't imagine ever moving that far out, “but it was such a cute place. We thought we'd rent it out and