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Australian House & Garden Magazine
|August 2024
A small historic home with a monolithic addition becomes the private retreat of the owner's dreams.
A grounded sanctuary was what owner Harriet requested when she approached Liz Walsh and the team at So.
Architecture. The historian/archivist had maintained her single-storey, 1830s Georgian cottage in Launceston, Tasmania beautifully. Yet it lacked privacy and a sense of space.

This story is from the August 2024 edition of Australian House & Garden Magazine.
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