Australian Country Homes

WORK IN PROGRESS

They say the way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. And that is precisely how Jo Little and Gary Brown are going about renovating their historic home at Yankalilla.

“We’d been hunting for a cottage as a bolthole from Adelaide for a while,” Jo recalls. “Then friends who knew us well phoned and said, ‘We’re sitting outside your new house. It’s called Bangala’. So we jumped online and had a look. Turns out it was a massive mansion — not what we had in mind at all — but it was intriguing enough for us to go and inspect the very next day.”

While Jo was smitten at the first sight

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