Australian House & Garden

LIGHT FANTASTIC

hen it came time to build her family’s new home, Cath Patane had a clear idea of how she wanted it to look. Cath and her husband Gerard had spent family holidays in Bali when their children were little and Cath had always loved the architecture of the villas they had stayed in there. “We wanted to create that holiday feel at home, to tick all those boxes that you look for when you’re booking an Airbnb or a villa, and I just really wanted it to be very relaxed, very coastal,”

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