Australian Country Homes

Dear readers, There’s no denying it — we’re living in a challenging time. For many, 2020 has been a year of change, and not all of it positive. We’ve had to pivot and shift our plans to achieve our goals. We’ve had to embrace alterations in a way we

They say to be born into the Turner family means to be born in the saddle. While that’s not strictly true, the Turner women all started riding almost as soon as they could walk. Gendy Parry Okeden, the oldest of the three Turner girls, started riding

The white Carrara marble bowls from Kandili Pty Ltd are the perfect way to enhance the sense of opulence in your home. Made from 100 per cent Italian Carrara marble, the vessels are unique, with no two patterns the same. Choose from four different-co

Some of us just aren’t wired to live in suburbia, with fences for privacy and neighbours within earshot. It can work for a time, but the call of the country seems to always prevail. Wayne and Marie Stewart first bought their patch of rural paradise i

A western NSW farmer who can talk about furniture designer Mark Tuckey as confidently, and passionately, as about agricultural machinery manufacturer John Deere, Moree’s Andrew Ball is fascinatingly contrary. Pinterest, his go-to for inspiration, rev

Local lore around the twin towns of Echuca-Moama on the Murray River has it that you can trace the fluctuating fortunes of Australia’s rural industry through the buildings on Perricoota Station. There’s the imposing double-storeyed, nine-bedroom bric

The plan, as much as Roz and Peter Seppelt had one, was to take Peter’s family’s hobby farm and transform it into a business. But as is always the case, there were a few unexpected twists and turns along the way. Nonetheless, after more than a decade

Diversify or die is the mantra of business in the bush these days, but Richard and Marisse Kinnon have taken it to the next level in the central-western Queensland town of Longreach. Richard, who grew up on a cattle property at Clermont, and Marisse,

If the walls could talk in the homestead on David and Cheryl Hunt’s Ivybrook Farm at South Australia’s Maslin Beach, they’d be telling tales that go back almost as far as the foundation of the colony. They’d doubtless recall the arrival of the Revere

As Rowan Peart sees it, back in the day, everyone had cousins in the country and most likely visited them frequently. But with increasing urbanisation that is no longer the case, and the country-city divide is at risk of developing into a chasm. So R

After 40 years with his “head down and tail up” on his cattle station, Robert Peart says he relishes the freedom to indulge his passion for timber. “I’ve always been a hobbyist furniture maker, but life on the farm involved a lot of work,” he says. “

You could have heard a pin drop. As Sarah Crooke tells the story, she and her husband, Stephen, were sitting in the classroom for the world’s leading ice cream course at Pennsylvania State University in the US, surrounded by food chemists. As the tal

Capture that campfire feeling with the Vektor 1100 fireplace. This product prides itself on its similarity to a real wood-burning fire, with its blazing flame produced from an in-log burner and the glowing ember bed from a sophisticated LED lighting

As celebratory outings go, it was the one that blew all the others out of the water. As Sarah Beaumont recalls her 2012 birthday, her partner, Ian Glover, hit on the idea of a trip to the country to check out a property he’d seen for sale online. Sar

Melissa and Andrew Kidd were roughly 16,000 kilometres apart when something life-changing popped into their respective inboxes. “Melissa and I emailed the same land to each other,” Andrew explains. “She’d returned to Australia a few months before me,

When Robyn and John Oliver bought Clear View in the Adelaide Hills, they became not just the eighth family to own the property, but also the custodians of a century-long tradition of owners who were not afraid to get their hands dirty. The Olivers bo