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SUNSHINE STATE OF MIND

ooking at this home’s gracious, airy rooms furnished with pieces that appear to have been collected over time, it is hard to imagine that it was ever the ‘ugly duckling’ interior designer Kate Walker is describing: ‘It was built in the 1980s, which was not a great time for Australian architecture,’ she says. ‘A lot of potential buyers had been put off as the house felt uninviting, but I could see that it

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