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POWER MOVES

It took the might of four men to carry the giant timber island into Gretchen Lowe's one-of-a-kind kitchen, and four again to instal the weighty fossil-stone sideboard in her treasure-filled lounge. For all the muscle power she and her husband Blair Houston enlisted to renovate the home they share with their children Gwynnie and Margot, though, there's no force stronger than her own creativity.

Ever since baking her first batch of lamingtons at the age of seven, formidable talent Gretchen has been a maker through and through, and has turned her unique skill set into a career that combines interior design, food styling, recipe creation and photography, and sees her and her content appear in books and magazines, on TV and

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