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TREASURE HUNTER

“I think when you find something you love, it’s just best to put both hands around and keep it forever!”

FOR SOME, DECORATING a home is a one-and-done affair. For Vicki Liley, it’s an ever-evolving creative practice. The stylist and photographer has been building her incredible stash of antique furniture, vintage curios and “quirky little things” for a lifetime. Now, she lives among her favourite finds in a pretty weatherboard cottage in Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains, the traditional land of the Gundungurra and Darug tribes.

Vicki has always had an eye for style. “I remember making little tiles at

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