Australian Country

Legacy of the past

It’s a bold move to ask total strangers if you can see their bedrooms, but it’s a strategy that works every time for interior designer Tracy Adams. “The first thing I ask a new client is if I can look in their wardrobes,” she says. “I’m not really interested in the made-up you or your carefully curated house space. I need to see the real you, and the thing that reveals that is your clothes.”

Tracy has lived in the NSW Upper Hunter town of Muswellbrook since she moved there from Newcastle as an 18-year-old au pair. She met her husband, Jason, who worked in the auto-parts industry, in a local pub and they’ve been together ever since. Jason had arrived

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