HEAR FELT home

CREATING A HOME THAT FEELS JUST RIGHT CAN TAKE TIME, BUT FOR THIS GOLD COAST FAMILY, IT’S BEEN WELL WORTH THE WAIT

- KYLIE JACKES

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

From the street (opposite), Mieke and Brett’s home looks like it could be in a leafy Hamptons hamlet on the US East Coast when, in fact, it’s on a sprawling block on Queensland’s Gold Coast. For Mieke, building the abode marked the realisation of her long-held dream to create a “homely Hamptons-inspired forever home”, where the couple could raise their children, Georgia, 13, and Diesel, 12. “Arches were a key feature,” says Mieke of the spacious doorways opening through onto balconies. The most striking is the arched clerestory window above the front door, which floods the entrance with natural light and draws the eye upwards, to where a Klaylife pendant hangs like a piece of art.