A design-savvy couple from Sydney fi nd their
patch of paradise in NSW’s Southern Highlands.
STORY DEBORAH GRANT / STYLING NICKI DOBRZYNSKI
PHOTOGRAPHY MAREE HOMER“We pinch ourselves to check it’s real! We get to drive past
green paddocks with cows instead of concrete and
skyscrapers,” says interior designer Nicki Dobrzynski,
pictured with her husband Chris, daughter Eva and Bailey the
Rhodesian ridgeback. While Nicki’s style is inf luenced by
classic American design, she describes her home as ‘modern
farmhouse’. Outside, the garden is an idyll of rockery beds,
European trees and a former pond converted to a vegie
plot. Cumquats and star jasmine, The Potting Shed.
FOR WHERE TO BUY, SEE PAGE 194.GREEN ACRES