Take a look inside Katie’s country get away

By Kirsty McKenzie, Photography Ken Brass

Less is more for a Melbourne family, who found the perfect retreat from their city lives in a tiny house on the top of a hill.

By her own reckoning, Katie Riddell has been an interior decorator since childhood. She constantly rearranged furniture and has clear recollections of her nine-year-old self disliking the wallpaper in her bedroom so much that she peeled it off.

In her real professional kife, however, Katie worked as a lawyer for 20 years before finally kistening to her inner voice and embarking on an interior desing course two night a week at TAFE college.

“ It took a while to transition because you need a lot of confidence to make such a radical career change”, she says.