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Surrounded by Nature

She’s always wanted “a Budji house”, having known Budji Layug through her mum who is the designer’s friend from school days. So, when she and her businessman husband planned their “weekend home”, Layug was the one she called.

“She showed me the property and gave me the brief,” Layug related. “It was to be a home to entertain family and friends because they have no children. The location was ideal, something that will not make them drive too far out from their city home. It also had an adjacent

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