Bach to Basics

“We wanted to do something different that wasn’t your standard three-bedroom home – a juxtaposition to what we had in town,” says Rachelle Kelly of the 105-square-metre bach (pronounced ‘batch’) beach house at St Andrews on the Mornington Peninsula, designed for her young family by Wolveridge Architects. “Also to be outdoors, and forced together into a simpler way of living. Forced outdoors into nature regardless of what the weather’s doing, to really unwind from the city and be connected to the coast.”