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RENTAL HOUSE & STUDIO

After meeting in Perth and living in New Zealand and Ireland for six years, Anna Forbes Rohan and her Irish barman husband Louis Rohan have come back to Australia. They’re currently renting a character-filled two-bedroom fibro house in the heart of Fremantle, big enough to accommodate Anna’s insatiable passion for collecting. Her growing floristry business, Botanica Naturalis, has also seen her move to a new studio.

What were your initial impressions of the house?

I just loved the wallpaper! It’s really good bad – if that makes sense – and I like good-bad things. But the house itself is great because it has about 60 different styles going on – 1940s tiles, 1970s linoleum, 1950s cabinets – it’s got all of these little bits that I really love, just layers and layers of them. Some

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