A RETREAT FOR SLOW LIVING
Designed by Frank Macchia to challenge, nurture and inspire, this home offers a very unique get away experience. From the large raw timber gates, the external connecting deck and the open air shower with mountain views, this private sanctuary encourages calm, healthy, connected living.
The beautiful spaces in this home are perfect for a romantic getaway for honeymooners, babymooners, couples & singles.
The space
Our unique home in Noosa Heads, perched high on Noosa Hill, has been designed to allow guests to experience living in smaller yet inspiring spaces. We aim to provide a unique holiday experience, challenging conventional living and inspiring a sustainable & healthy lifestyle with a focus on nurturing the mind, body and spirit. Each item in this ‘pull apart’ home has been carefully considered and designed by ourselves or sourced from like-minded makers. The feel is private and spacious, with a dark bedroom designed specifically for deep sleep, and a shower/dressing area with stunning views of the Noosa surrounds. Instead of television and computers, enjoy beautiful sunsets on the deck, a private bath with a view, immerse yourself in a good book, or create a delicious meal from fresh local produce.
At Shackpalace you will enjoy a unique retreat style holiday experiencing mindful rituals that may change the way you think about how we live in today’s busy world. The well considered layout of the home aims to encourage slow living where daily tasks are now carried out with awareness providing a more fulfilling and enjoyable experience.
Our beautiful Noosa cabin has been created with a philosophy of conscious design using environmentally friendly & sustainable building materials and hand selected, artisan products throughout.
Features include:
• Separate bedroom pavilion - king bed with organic cotton & natural hemp bed linen
• Bathing & dressing room with rain head shower open to outside and views
. Mediation/yoga/tea ceremony room downstairs with external bath & shower with a view.
• Complimentary organic hair & body wash
• Pure linen sheets & organic towels
• Separate toilets
• Separate laundry with washing machine & dryer
• Lounge area with record player, books & games and day bed to relax on
• Kitchen with large dining table, oven, cooktop, blender, fridge, utensils, handcrafted crockery & cutlery and external herb garden
• Complimentary condiments
• Large west facing deck with views over Noosa river and hinterland
• Off street car parking
• Surfboard & bike storage undercover
• Extensive landscaping
• Allergy friendly building, contents & cleaning
Please contact us directly for longer term stay options.
Shackpalace Noosa has been designed by Frank Macchia in accordance with our unique building and design philosophies and styled by Shackpalace Rituals (www.shackpalace.com). Please contact us if you would like any items from the Shackpalace Rituals collection available for you during your stay.
Designer Statement
In line with the idea of encouraging SLOW LIVING, by immersing ourselves into daily rituals, I have split the home into 3 separate areas…. 1. Living/Kitchen/Eating, 2. Sleeping and 3. Bathing/Dressing. These rooms are connected by an external deck and generally under cover with enough adjacent open to sky, to enhance the sense of movement from in to out. In addition to this, I have designed steps before each room/pavilion, to act as a continual reminder that you are about to enter a different zone, for a different activity. I am aiming to minimise the number of mindless moments that occur as we move from room to room and function to function in our homes every day. The added sense of stepping into a private and secure outside zone touches a raw and adventurous part of our soul – that similar feeling we get when camping.
Shackpalace also includes two further design concepts which question the way we currently build our homes.
Firstly, it deletes the superfluous space and pares back a home to the bare minimum in size and ‘stuff’. The idea is that we feel more nurtured, relaxed and connected in spaces that hit the sweet spot between too big and cold, and too small and cluttered.
Secondly, Shackpalace adopts the philosophy of hand built perfection in the imperfection. While most homes are built from materials synthetically processed from factories, Shackpalace takes us back to using natural materials in a way that accentuates the imperfections. My feeling is that humans relate to this imperfection much better than perfectly pressed products from a factory conveyor belt, because we too are imperfect and not entirely symmetrical.
I hope this home inspires and lifts your spirit as it does to me each moment I have spent designing and staying in it.
Frank Macchia
Guest access
Guests have access to the entire home (upstairs & down) which is very private. There are heavy, handmade timber gates at the entry that are lockable and sensor lighting for security.
Other things to note
Shackpalace Noosa has been designed by Macchia Design Studio in accordance with our unique building and design philosophies and styled by Shack Palace. Please contact us if you would like any items from the Shack Palace collection available for you during your stay.
