Overlaying a youthful and stylish demeanour onto a landmark country home in Victoria’s Mount Macedon was a challenge eagerly tackled by interior designer Charlotte Coote, director of Coote&Co. ‘Ard Rudah’ – ‘High Promontory’ in Gaelic – is a Gothic-style hill-station home built in 1874 by a Scottish industrialist, featuring an impressive suite of rooms and facilities, later enhanced by architect Christopher Cowper and with extensive gardens by respected landscaper Baron Ferdinand von Mueller. The property was well maintained through the years with an architectural update undertaken in the early 2000s by Stephen Akehurst & Associates.
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