Friday 11 January 2013

home atop the hill .....

Last year I posted on my studio, and then took you on a walk down through our land.  Many blogging friends have asked to have a peek about the house so here it is.  We moved in over a year ago having rebuilt the house.  It looks very industrial, having wrapped 80% of it in galvanised steel.  Really, it looks like another shed on our property!  I love it.

Nestled on top of the hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean - about twenty kilometres to the east.

Waiting for garden to grow .....

the beginnings of a very steep garden .....

stairs lead down to my studio or up to bedrooms and office
a couple of my large drawings here and below - framed in perspex so they seem to float



Just one large kitchen, dining and living area on this level - all open into each other

waiting for my 'sense of place' etchings on the wall!

I call this window my 'gum tree' window .....

some of my porcelain collection in the entrance.
So, that is the peek - quite a change from the huge French style home and English gardens I created at 'Clovelly' which is only about three hundred metres from this home.   It was a job in itself so I am so glad to be in a smaller space, with plenty of land around us to enjoy and a studio in which to work. 



8 comments:

  1. What a beautful house! I love all the light and wood and high views. I love being tucked into the forest mosses and ferns, but I wish I had a tower, too, so I could climb up above the trees and see the mountains. Thanks for sharing!!

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  2. Thanks Valerie. This new home feels like living in a tree house. Fun.

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  3. Such beautiful spaces and views, I am very envious!

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  4. Love the space and light also the simplicity.
    Love also the large drawings and the collection of such simple clear objects - they have a purity about them.

    I am also so relieved to know that you aren't in the path of the terrible fires that raging across Australia.

    Diane. x

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  5. Wow so beautiful light and peaceful

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  6. Such a beautiful calm space to live and work in. Did you notice the photo was taken on the ipad, with no tweeking at all.

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  7. Hello Susan, It is great to see more of your home, I can imagine you there quite easily now.
    I love the simplicity of the house and the light is just wonderful.
    In our longerre there isn't a lot of light but we didn't want to change the frontage of such an old house.
    I love your large drawings and the arrangement of simple objects.
    I have a growing collection of stones and shells - just can't resist.

    I am so pleased to know you aren't near the terrible fires.

    Diane.x

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  8. Thank you all for wandering around the house with me. I do consider myself very lucky to be living in a home full of light where the outside merges with the inside.
    Glad you like my drawings Diane. Will look forward this year to getting back to my large drawings.

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