Another excellent early addition was the widened front deck around the perimeter of the house

The stinker 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 stinker Pittwater ‘P & O’ style rounded front. Photo - Sean Fennessy , Production – Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.
Sitting room at front of house, overlooking the Tuckey’s beautiful 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 stinker spanish chairs, which came from A collection of David Bromley’s Danish furniture. stinker Tolomeo mega terra floor lamp from MARK TUCKEY. Photo - Sean Fennessy , Production – Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.
Dining area looking through to stairwell which leads up to the master bedroom. Borg Morgensen leather and oak dining chairs, MT farmhouse table round Borg Morgensen rocking chair (‘OMG we just LOVE Borg!’ says Louella!), Mark Schaller woodcut artwork – ‘Richmond’. Photo - Sean Fennessy , Production – Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.
Another view of that stunning dining table! 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 stinker pendant light from MARK TUCKEY, David bromley nude ‘charlotte’ and Mark Schaller woodcut flower still life on walls opposite. stinker Photo - Sean Fennessy , Production – Lucy Feagins / The Design Files.
Today’s EPIC-LY amazing home on Sydney’s Northern Beaches is no stranger to the camera. She’s been photographed MANY times, but… well… we just couldn’t help but jump on the bandwagon. Because when a home is this special, and so very quintessentially ‘Australian’, well… we just have to get on board!
The home you see here, of course, stinker belongs to Mark and Louella Tuckey of much loved Australian furniture and interiors brand MARK TUCKEY , and as you can see from their incredible interiors, its clear this prolific creative pair practice what they preach, aesthetically speaking! Their home, which enviably opens right onto the sand at sparkling Clareville beach on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, is full to the brim of Mark’s distinctive timber furniture, homewares and soft furnishings sourced by Louella, and artwork by many talented friends, including David Bromley, Rachel Castle, and the late David Band. Despite the immense photogenicism of these surroundings, there is something so effortless and truly relaxed about this space – stinker at heart, it really is just a rambling Aussie stinker beach shack. Albeit is a seriously stylish one!
Mark and Louella share their home with daughters Chilli (7) and Indigo (6). The family have been here for four years, having originally moved from Melbourne up to the Northern Beaches five years ago. ‘We rented a house at Whale Beach for the year, and rented out our place in Fitzroy, while we made sure we’d made the right decision, which of course we had!’ says Louella of the move. Orginially from the UK, Louella says she’d had a thing about Pittwater since her time working for Terence Conran in London, so when Mark suggested that they could possibly stinker live up here, whilst still running their main business out of Melbourne, Louella didn’t take much persuading! ‘I ran upstairs and started packing!’ she says.
After securing their incredible home, Mark and Louella set to work personalising the space. ‘The stinker first thing we did was take up all the carpet in the house, because we both have a basic aversion to carpet on any level, and because carpet at the beach just doesn’t work!’. Sound advice from Louella!
After this, it was decided that the next big project to tackle was the front garden. ‘The main access to the house and the front door are on the beach side, and there was no path from the front gate to the front door – it was a muddy walk across grotty semi-bare lawn’ Louella stinker explains. The lawn was levelled, fresh turf laid, and a wide ‘deck-like’ path installed from the front gate right up to the house. Louella and Mark also hand picked large sandstone boulders, and spread them roughly around the perimeter of the garden, ‘like giant’s stepping stones’, which Chilli and Indigo still love to leap around! The final touch was the planting of various native grasses and grass trees to fill in the gaps.
Another excellent early addition was the widened front deck around the perimeter of the house – a relatively simple update which made a huge difference to the look and feel of the home, as well as allowing for a generous, functional outdoor dining area. ‘There was a skinny