Having attended kindergarten, primary school and intermediate together a year apart, Catherine and Lee Wilkinson were students at the same high school when they were ‘officially’ introduced by a mutual friend. “We kind of just started hanging out and never stopped,” she says. “It feels like we’ve never been apart.” It’s a wonderful life the interior designer/stylist and her husband are creating — and in the renovation of their mid-century family home, they’ve embodied that sentiment in bricks and mortar.
The luck of joining forces at such a young age and the good fortune that’s followed might lead one to ponder the role fate could be playing in this twosome’s trajectory. Does she believe in destiny? “Oh,