Attention to Detail

Ambience is “all in the detail”

Guests often compliment us on our attention to detail, commenting that we seem to have “thought of everything”, and asking how we get the ideas for the detail.

In my experience, the detail is easy once you have two fundamentals in place – the design concept, and the colour palette.

Deciding our concept for the build of the property was that hardest. We had owned the land since 2007: and had spent about 4 years hacking back the feral hawthorne, gorse and blackberry. Then we started to play with build ideas, including considering container builds, an interesting interlocking hexagonal honeycomb builds, and even ‘underground’ builds.

Finally, we decided that an Aussie Bush Camp was so true to the riverside position, and once we had that, the detail of colour palette and furnishing was a no-brainer.

…. but not quite!

While we obviously wanted the rustic bush aesthetic for the tents, I also wanted it to relive the grace and luxury of the tents of the black and white Arabian movies that I had so loved as a child. They were so exotic, so evocative, and so so romantic. I wanted an over lay of ‘Tales of the Arabian Nights’.

So now detail was easy.

Rustic, rural, wood, leather and canvas representing the Australia of a bygone era, with lots of interesting Australia rural antique bits and pieces.

The Arabian overlay was represented by draped ceilings and walls, large carpet squares, bronze and copper, and splashes of reds , blues and gold of rich fabrics. Of course, this is more a Hollywood Arabian image than a reality , but then it is a fantasy, after all.