Australian Country Homes

SHAKEN NOT STIRRED

After meeting at high school and spending most of their lives tied to work commitments and their boys’ schooling in and around Adelaide, Chris and Bruce Wright were presented with an appealing alternative. Bruce had an option on a project management role in an environmentally sustainable residential project near Victor Harbor, close to Goolwa on the Murray River, and the timing was perfect. The Wrights’ sons, Toby and Zac, had flown the coop, but wanderlust and joie de vivre

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Australian Country Homes

Australian Country Homes5 min read
Quintessential Queenslander
Leah Stirton cheerfully admits she had never been west of the Brisbane suburb of Indooroopilly when she applied for a teaching position in Charleville. Freshly returned from London and nursing a broken heart, she wanted to move as far away as possibl
Australian Country Homes3 min read
The End Of The Way
This large-scale painting dated 1906 by Australian female artist Helen Peters relates to the 1871 poem reproduced below. Helen Peters was born in Geelong, Victoria, in 1866 and studied art under Edmund Sasse, Bernard Hall, Tudor St George Tucker and
Australian Country Homes4 min read
Bold And Beautiful
The very best houses aren’t just buildings placed on blocks of land. Rather, they’re homes that reflect the surroundings from which they rise, complementing them instead of simply casting them in shadow. This home on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula i

Related Books & Audiobooks