Australian House & Garden

Living the dream

ith some properties, it’s love at first sight. But that’s not always the case. When Nina Caple, interior designer and director of Anchor&Belle, and her husband Nick first spotted this quirky Sunshine Beach villa online, they weren’t even sure about going to see it. “It was designed and built in the 1980s by local artist John Cummings and his wife Verushka, who had modelled it on Mediterranean villas they had stayed in on their

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