EVERY ARTIST NEEDS A blank canvas, and space to create. Janine Everett found hers on the beautiful rural coastal belt of Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. With beach on one side and grazing cattle on the other, Janine and her husband, Bernie, first visited this one-hectare parcel of land near Shoreham, the traditional land of the Bunurong people, 10 years ago.
Set in bushland, the corner block that was to become Beach Road House had sat unsold for some time. Bernie, a builder and lifelong surfer, passed it one day on his way to the beach. He stopped for a look and returned soon after, bringing Janine, a painter and art teacher, and their children, Daisy and Ripley, then aged 13 and 11.
