Room to Grow
Photography by Tony Potter
Styling by Justine Wilson
A relaxed beach resort feel with hard-nosed functionality, that’s the combination Renae was striving for when she was designing and decorating her spacious family home.
The four children’s bedrooms are located together on the middle level, running down the whole western side of the house and accessed by a large two metre hallway. “We have wide hallways between the bedrooms and bathrooms so they can get in and out of rooms and their bathroom without pushing and shoving,” says Renae. Having the bedrooms together also takes unnecessary legwork out of chores such as putting away clean clothes, she adds.
Also on the middle level is the open plan kitchen, dining and lounge area. A big open kitchen with a combined Ceasarstone kitchen bench and breakfast bar was an essential part of the plan, says Renae. “A big bench is obviously convenient so the kids can kind of line up along it, have their breakfast, throw their things in the sink and off they go. It’s very functional.”
White coloured walls teamed with light timber floors and bright feature walls in uplifting colours such as soft green, pale violet and yellow give the house a fresh, friendly feel. Renae has matched a few favourite colours on feature walls with soft furnishings and accessories so that there is visual interest but also cohesion. Light shades of blue, green, yellow and orange recur throughout the house in lanterns, paintings, picture frames and cushions.
Renae admits she’s always on the lookout for “a little something” to add, such as the cluster of plastic butterflies attached to fishing wire in one daughter’s room which appear to flutter prettily along the wall. “I’ve always had an interest in decorating and design and things like that so I loved doing it, right down to choosing taps,” she says.
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