Australian Homes
Best of Australian Homes 2014 · Mark and Louella Tuckey
As has become our annual tradition, this week and next we’re taking a much needed break from regular content programming to catch up with ourselves! SO from today until Monday Jan 5th, we’ll be posting the TOP TEN Australian Homes of 2014, based on your comments, page views and a little of our own bias!
First up, we’re heading way back to the start of this year, when we shared the truly incredible beachside home of Mark and Louella Tuckey in Clareville on Sydney’s Northern beaches. Super relaxed yet sparklingly spectacular, this is Australian beachside living at its best.
The truly incredible home of Mark and Louella Tuckey at Clareville, on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. This is the beach side/front of the house, with classic Pittwater ‘P & O’ style rounded front. Photo – Sean Fennessy Production – Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.
Sitting room at front of house, overlooking the front garden and out to the beach beyond. MARK TUCKEY box day bed sofa with Megan Park and orange felt cushions, MT oxo coffee table in raw oak, 2 sets of MT pigeon hole shelves in oregon, David band trumpet print on rear wall, Borg Morgensen spanish chairs, which came from A collection of David Bromley’s Danish furniture. Tolomeo mega terra floor lamp from MARK TUCKEY. Photo – Sean Fennessy, Production – Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.
Dining area form above. MARK TUCKEY farmhouse table in raw american oak, Borg Morgensen leather and oak dining chairs (Loeulla says these are her new favourite things, picked up from Vampt in sydney), Caravaggio pendant light from MARK TUCKEY, David bromley nude ‘charlotte’ and Mark Schaller woodcut flower still life on walls opposite. Photo – Sean Fennessy, Production – Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.
Mark and Louella Tuckey at home with their much loved pups, Scribble and Lillydog. Photo – Sean Fennessy, Production – Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.
The home of Mark and Louella Tuckey on Sydney’s Northern beaches completely seduced us (and many of you!) when we photographed it last summer… and one full year later, re-visting these pics still makes my heart skip a beat! Honestly, does the quintessential Australian beach house get any better than this?
Mark and Louella’s home opens right onto the sand at sparkling Clareville beach, like some kind of picture-perfect film location. It is also, of course, expertly decorated by stylist Louella, full to the brim of Mark’s distinctive timber furniture, homewares and soft furnishings sourced by the pair for their stores in Sydney and Melbourne, and artwork by many talented friends, including David Bromley, Rachel Castle, and the late David Band. Despite the extreme photogenicism of these surroundings, there is something so effortless and truly relaxed about this space – at heart, it really is just a rambling Aussie beach shack.
‘The location speaks for itself, but the house is so pure beach shack, it really is a little old farmhouse by the water’ says Louella.
If you’re a fan of the Tuckeys’ distinctive decorating aesthetic, do check out their latest project – ‘The Tabletop Project‘, in which a host of Australian creatives share their ultimate Christmas table!
CLICK HERE to re-visit our full feature on Mark and Louella Tuckey’s home, and many more pics!
CANNOT, EVER, GET OVER THIS LOCATION! The Tuckeys’ front gate opens right onto the sand at Clareville. Photo – Sean Fennessy, Production – Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.