Briony Fitzgerald Design

Briony often says that a house tells you what it needs, and this is an example where working into the original character of the house she has expanded its footprint and re-ordered the interior. “We extended the front veranda to create more useable outdoor space, retained the tongue and groove timber work and repositioned the kitchen between the two wings of the house so that it became the hub of family life’, she says. The country house, which looks over Gerringong in rural New South Wales, shows what can be achieved through reinvention and buying off-the-shelf. Sally Campbell quilts, with their wonky hand-sewn charm have been made into headboards and ceramic vases turned into table lights. “We sourced really well and really economically for this project. There is a certain playfulness and lightness as shown by the sustainably manufactured PET lights from Spence & Lyda’, says Briony.