Seduced by simplicity
It was supposed to be a fixer-upper. When Sydney architect Michael Bell and his interior designer work and life partner, Michele, went looking for a property on the NSW South Coast, they only ever intended to move there for as long as it took to renovate and sell a house. Michael had spent part of his childhood in regional Victoria and had fond memories of holidays at his grandfather’s beach shack on Phillip Island, and although Michele had grown up in Sydney’s north-west, she yearned to show
