The story of Hunter Huon Valley

A change of pace, a change of place, and a reason to build something worth switching off for.

The move

We left Melbourne for a valley already living at the right speed.

Hunter started with a change of pace. We had spent years at the speed a city sets, and what we wanted was days with more room in them. The Huon Valley was the place that kept pulling us back.

Part of it was everything growing here. Apple orchards and cider houses, cool-climate vineyards, cheesemakers, bakers and growers who have spent their working lives learning one thing properly. You can eat and drink a whole weekend of this valley within twenty minutes of the front door, and the people who make it are the reason it is worth the drive down.

The rest of it was the landscape. The river, the hills going gold at six, the mist that sits in the valley until mid-morning. We built Hunter so people could have all of that without having to organise any of it.

A black timber cabin at Hunter Huon Valley in low afternoon sun, its warm timber entry open to the deck, where someone stands at the rail looking out over the Glen Huon bush

What Hunter is for

Switch off, and lose yourselves in it.

There are no televisions in the cabins and there is no wifi. That is the point of the place, not something we forgot to install.

What happens instead is the thing guests write about afterwards. A whole evening in front of the fire. A conversation that runs longer than it would have at home. A morning that starts with mist coming off the river rather than a screen. Time in the bush, time in the bath, and time with the person you came with.

In three years of reviews, not one guest has told us they missed it.

What we’re about

Three cabins, made by people who live here.

Three architecturally designed cabins sit on 36 acres of private bushland at Glen Huon, spaced far enough apart that you can spend a whole weekend without seeing another one. Inside, the interiors are contemporary and warm, built around custom and handcrafted pieces from artisans working in this part of Tasmania. These are the people who made it:

  • Architecture Maguire + Devine
  • Build Hobart Construction Co
  • Joinery I.D Joinery
  • Handmade basins Zsolt Faludi
  • Custom vanity Matt Black Furniture
The view through a Hunter Huon Valley cabin's timber doorway to the wood fire alight, split logs stacked in the hearth below it and lined timber overhead
A deep black stone bath filled and still at dusk, a copper tap above it, and gum trees against a pink Huon Valley sky through the full-height windows

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