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THE INTERIORS THAT TASMANIAN STYLIST Julie Willis creates are so welcoming that when people walk into a room, they feel like they’re being hugged. Julie’s approach to interior design is not just moulding beautiful spaces, but evoking the intangible – “that feeling that you just want to be there and don’t want to leave,” she explains.

Julie, 52, recently completed a major apartment renovation with her youngest son Jackson, 23. The duo turned an ugly duckling into an oasis in Hobart – known to the traditional owners as nipaluna. Named The Binney, the apartment boasts views over the River Derwent – all the way up to kunanyi/Mount Wellington – and is the city cousin of Julie’s other

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