Australian Home Beautiful

SECRET GARDEN

Stepping through the bespoke front gates of Dorset Bottega, visitors could be forgiven for thinking they’ve stumbled upon a French country villa. A hedge-lined driveway meanders its way past parterre gardens, wisteria-draped arbours, a potting shed and an Italianate work studio. Only then is the main home revealed – the restored Queenslander in Brisbane that Adam, his wife Kristn and their children, Mia, 21, Ava, 13, and William, 11, call home.

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