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I spent well over a year walking the backstreets of the Gold coast from Palm Beach to Miami searching for old homes & Motels to document. Most of these homes are now gone or slated for demolition & new development high rise or luxury homes built in their place.The old school timber homes are a thing from the past, stylized wooden awnings & handmade stone walls were popular from the 1940’s through to the 1970’s.Most of these great building were holiday homes either on the beach or one street back on large blocks. Walking is really the only way you find them as they a scattered in between new high rise developments.Clearly there is no government heritage overlay for these...

Framing options & ideas: Tasmanian Oak is beautiful, either with a white border or ‘full bleed’. This means the photograph is slightly larger as it butts right up to the edge of the frame rather than having a white border. Leaving a border between the artwork & the frame is more traditional & always looks great! A border between 5-10 cm is great & your framer will give you an idea of what is appropriate when you choose your frame. There are many examples in my store of each image with multiple framing styles. Painted white or black frames work really well too. I’ve seen a few people to this & like the results. *There are examples of frames &...