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At ease

This coastal home near Melbourne is designed to reflect and encourage a relaxed lifestyle, like being on holiday year-round. Dubbed Bernie’s Beach House after the beloved pooch that resides here (along with his smitten owners), it reflects its Sorrento, Victoria site with a colour and material palette that’s refined and neutral yet also highly textural.

Director of interior design studio Sally Caroline, Sally Knibbs, devised this dwelling for her

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