Anybody fortunate sufficient to have stayed at Captains Relaxation in Strahan, Tasmania, will let you know simply how particular it’s.

Loads of that’s right down to Sarah Andrews’ consideration to element. After crusing around the globe, she poured her coronary heart and soul into renovating the one-bedroom lodging after shopping for it as a dilapidated shack about seven years in the past.

‘Captains Relaxation was an area I created after returning to Australia after being shipwrecked off the coast of Mexico,’ Sarah says. ‘I lived alone boat for a very long time — and wanted an area to revive that held every thing I beloved about dwelling on the ocean, with the protection and luxury of being on land.’

All the things from the heritage cottage’s charming furnishings to the nautical styling has been particularly designed to move guests to a different place and time. Inside, there’s a wooden hearth, a claw foot tub, and the bed room seems out the vintage home windows to the property’s jetty, benefiting from the serene water views.

‘It truly is like stepping by a wardrobe right into a sort of Narnia,’ Sarah says. ‘There actually isn’t any extra lovely keep on the planet — and our friends inform us that too.’

With a background in spatial science in addition to design, Sarah has been sharing her distinctive method with design schooling courses in each The Internet hosting Masterclass and her Styling Faculty.

Her new ebook The Poetry of Areas, is all about guiding others to ‘craft their very own worlds’ as she has with Captains Relaxation. It’s lovely ebook of interiors that reveals Sarah’s 5 classes for creating these particular areas and the significant tales behind them.

‘I actually wished to share elements of that on this ebook so that everybody can have somewhat piece of this data,’ she provides. ‘It has been the product of just about three years of onerous work, however what a privilege to have my very own work, and the work of my college students, in print.’

To have fun the launch of her new ebook, we’re giving one fortunate reader the prospect to expertise the magic of Captains Relaxation for themselves, together with a prize pack value greater than $3000!

Enter the competitors kind under to go within the working to win a three-night keep for you and visitor, along with a signed copy of The Poetry of Areas and a spot in both The Internet hosting Masterclass or Ideas of Styling & Storytelling. Competitors closes Sunday 15 October at 11:59pm AEST. See right here for the T&Cs. 

Buy The Poetry of Areas revealed by Hardie Grant Books on-line right here.