Sea Dragon

Only eighteen months prior, the inside of this 1950s abode was bare, gutted to the bones, with only the original cedar wood siding and wooden skeleton remaining intact.

‘You couldn’t drop your bundle; you just had to keep it together,’ Evan Bailey says with laid back conviction, his eyes sparkling as he recounts the trials of selling a house, running a business, supporting the kids, and renovating a home – all while riding out a pandemic. His wife Kate Clark’s all-knowing smile betrays that he is (slightly) downplaying the enormous journey of converting the run-down beach shack, now affectionately called Sea Dragon, into a family home.

Seated around a wooden table in their open-plan kitchen-dining area,