From an interior design point of view, it was essential to ground the home in its surroundings. Gunnamatta Bay attracts those seeking a laid-back coastal lifestyle, and it’s this ‘Australian coastal experience’ that informed much of the Gunnamatta House interiors, which have been layered, Kelvin says, with “the depth of European tone”. The home that emerges, as a result, is not only tangible memory of the owners’ separate upbringings but a symbol of the shared life that they now live.