Spatial poetry

When two school friends reconnected over a shared love of design and sustainability, the opportunity to collaborate did more than give new life to a 110-year-old house – it cemented a friendship while making a poetic story in the process.

ALEESHA CALLAHAN

The garden is designed to be hardy — Tanya shares that it has taken three years to regenerate it with the natives that will continue to grow into the site. Standing in a crumbling and dilapidated fibro lean-to rampantly overrun with bougainvillea, designer Craig Nener turned 180 degrees. With a thoughtful expression, he looked straight back down the arched hallway of the original cottage and out towards two established Jacaranda trees. “It was quite a beautiful thing to watch, you could see the cogs turning in his brain,” recalls Tanya, who bought the rundown Perth property with her partner Pete in 2019. Nener’s idea was simple: with the lean-to gone, the new addition would have a line of high windows to reverse the view back towards the trees, simultaneously creating…

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