Farmhouse-style bedroom inspiration for the sweetest dreams

Lydia Nettlefold, the owner of the Clarendon Arms hotel in Evandale, Tasmania, purchased the 1840s convict-brick cottage next door on a whim in 2017. Following a full restoration, Charleston Cottage now operates as boutique holiday accommodation. These bedrooms each have an ensuite, kitted out with brushed-copper  tapware. “There’s not a bit of stainless steel in the place,” Lydia says. “Copper is nice. It’s warm.”

These beautiful bedrooms are the handiwork of Pip Brett, the founder of Orange’s Jumbled store. With help from her builder husband, Nick “Speedy” Luelf, and architect Felicity Slattery of Studio Esteta, Pip has converted Molong’s old Commonwealth Bank into holiday accommodation. 

This section of the building is where the bank manager once lived. The small still-life painting of flowers that hangs in a front bedroom (above left) has special significance as it was a gift from the owner of Relic, a vintage shop in Orange. “I saw this little painting, loved it and knew I could do something special with it,” Pip says. “I was very touched that she gave it to me.” Click here to see more of Sona’s transformation.

Jumbled’s Pip Brett talks to Graziher’s Life on the Land about her love of colour. Article continues below.

Parts of the building on Chris and Margot Shannon’s sheep property, near Bookham on the New South Wales Southern Tablelands, date back to 1875. But perhaps the most significant addition arrived in 1890 on a boat from Germany: its Wunderlich metal cladding. 

The cladding is used on the home’s exterior, where it’s designed to look like sandstone blocks. Open the front door and you will see that it plays as big a role inside as it does outside, where it is used to great effect on the bedroom walls and ceilings.

Like what you see? Take a look at Margot’s lifestyle and homeware store, Merchant Campbell.

Inveterate furniture restorer Sandy Palmer is known for her blend of Scandinavian, French provincial and traditional Australian homestead styles. That’s certainly the case with the bedrooms at her 1950s home just outside Tenterfield, in northern New South Wales. The home’s three bedrooms are havens of miscellaneous collectables: bird cages, baskets, trophies and sweet chests of drawers.

Click here to see more of Sandy’s timeless farmhouse aesthetic.

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