Australian House & Garden

KICKING GOALS

hen former Richmond Tigers captain Trent Cotchin and his wife Brooke embarked on an extensive renovation of their five-bedroom Federation home in Melbourne’s inner north, they had no inkling they wouldn’t be around to oversee it. Not long after purchasing the property, Victoria went into lockdown and the couple and their children Harper, eight, Mackenzie, six, and Parker, three, shifted to Queensland to live in the AFL’s Covid-safe bubble. Fortunately, they had a talented designer in the family who was happy to take the reins – Morgan Ferry, the partner

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