WHEN PEARL AND ROSS BLANDFORD were dreaming up the design for their new home, they went on long drives around Tasmania to collect inspiration from the state’s heritage houses. But they found it wasn’t the grand manors that sparked their interest; it was the estates’ humble shearing sheds and other outbuildings that caught their eye.
“The industrial working buildings really appealed to us. They just really spoke to the Australian lifestyle,” Pearl recalls. “We loved the look of Georgian homes, but if we put a Georgian cottage on our land, it wouldn’t work in the same way. We didn’t want it to stick out in the landscape.”
The couple had bought
