Completing their building journey in Winter 2020, Alison and the family had planned to spend three months in Bali, but, thanks to COVID-19, the plan has pivoted. If there’s any silver lining to the pandemic for the family, it’s the flexibility granted to Alison’s husbands work life, showing his employer that he is able to work easily from home, and allowing them to get away.
At current, they’re living in their beautiful space, and are about to spend five months in Byron Bay! Having just listed the property on Airbnb as a luxury rental, the family are taking the opportunity while their daughter is young to experience a lifestyle change. Renewed lifestyle flexibility is certainly Covid’s silver lining. We will be scouting homes. If it’s something that we do like it will be a permanent move.
Everything has lined up and it’s given us this opportunity. The plan is that I invest in a property to renovate for myself in the next 12 months, either up north or in Melbourne.
One of the first guests to rent the home is another BuildHer member, whose own space will be unliveable for ten weeks, giving her the chance to experience the beautiful completed home.
In the meantime, as one of the BuildHer 8, Alison will continue to play her role designing one of the homes of the Rathmines project from afar, flying down for the key milestones. While in Byron, Alison and the family will be scouting homes, armed with the flexibility to wait for the right home before they begin their next development adventure.