MAGIC BEACH HOUSE

13 Aug

Minted Founder & Director Tess Beagley’s freshly renovated and extended family home in Geraldton, WA, where she lives with her husband and three kids. Tess shares a few childhood experiences and explains why this project came to be affectionately known as 'Magic Beach House'.

This project has a very special place in my heart, as our family home. We approach all of our Minted Elevated Living projects with a deep sense of purpose in understanding the ultimate desires and dreams of our clients, pursuing highly personalised design outcomes to create a thoughtful and specific version of elevated living, just for them. Reflecting of our own family home project, it occurred to me that our personal story and values have informed every step of this renovation project, so it makes sense to share them with you in revealing our freshly ‘minted’ family home.

We purchased this property in December 2019 in need of a major renovation, just before COVID lock down. Positioned on a decent sized corner block by the beach, with lawn, shady pines, magical ocean views and set in a regional community of our friends and family.

Fast forward to 2024, we now enjoy our very own version of elevated living in our very treasured family home affectionately coined ‘The Magic Beach House’ after a major renovation. Now, on the other side of our renovation, we are grateful to enjoy a lifestyle we had always hoped for.

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Our home now provides us with a much loved setting for convenient daily living. It warmly welcomes the constant stream of neighbourhood kids coming and going with our three, giving them spaces to hang out and play, while my husband Yves and I get on with our day, or entertain in other areas.

The surrounding regional landscape and community means morning walks with girlfriends, a bonfire in a neighbour’s backyard, or sunset drinks on someone’s balcony. Bubbles at the beach every Christmas morning (and many others throughout the year) with our entire families and many beach sessions together as one big tribe of adults and kids throughout summer.

On free afternoons our kids spend time with their friends, making cubbies, surfing and playing in the sand dunes. They adventure from our house to our friend’s places up the street, constantly scheming sleep overs, playing basketball in driveways, making bike jumps on the spare block and running down through the dunes for one last surf before the sun goes down.

The kid’s adventures often spark neighbourhood family friends coming together as whole families and our newly updated home makes it feel easy and simple to host everyone. We now have impromptu drinks, meals, kids movie nights with the projector in the backyard, backyard BBQs and sunset drinks on the front deck to enjoy the ocean sunset. Often just a ‘quick wine’ with just the mums while the kids entertain themselves, turn into long evenings with plenty of laughter and sleep deprived kids.

Other nights mid-week nights are spent juggling the normal daily school, work and sport routines, where we trudge through what needs to be done like most families at this stage of life. Cooking, washing, homework, uniform prep etc-before snuggling on the couch together to enjoy some Netflix for our reprieve from the work/school/sport hamster wheel, before starting over again the next day. The functionality now helping us to streamline these processes with convenience, giving us time and space to enjoy more of each other’s company, enjoying cooking together, snuggling in for a quiet family night.
Our home now gives us so many opportunities to connect as a family a functional place to snuggle in together. It also helps us spend time with our much loved community, making it easy to relax and enjoy time entertaining easily - connected with the freedoms of the beautiful surrounding landscape we love so much.
More than just a house - now a meeting place, sometimes a workplace and a home in the truest sense of the word - giving our family time to reflect, breathe, reset and connect with our most loved people. Our kids will hopefully understand how lucky they are to climb into their beds each night, exhausted after a big afternoon surfing and roaming with friends, finishing with a quiet family night in, or a late night surrounded by a community of family and friends who care about them and each other. The value of which, is never lost on my husband Yves, or I.”
Tess

"At our beach, at our magic beach, the old bed is cosy and wide. To the sounds of the ocean we sleep through the night.. adrift on the evening tide."
— Alison Lester