LISA BURDEN

Sourcing fashion for our Style Diaries on page 124 and hunting down homewares to emulate Talmo homestead on page 48 is all in a day’s work for this stylist. Though she never had a country childhood, Lisa says her partner has spent a lot of time in regional Australia and his tales of camping in paddocks, free roaming on farms and amazing food has “sold” her on the rural lifestyle. So, too, have the people she meets through her work with Country Style. “They have great taste and wonderful stories and I get to help tell them in a visual way,” she says. Lisa is a firm believer that authentic style doesn’t have to come with an expensive price tag: “A photograph of a loved one, an antique collected on an overseas trip, a family heirloom, an artwork done by a friend… anything that has a special place in a homeowner’s heart makes the space a home.”