The Lodge at Dairy Flat Farm.
You couldn’t ask for a smoother arrival. An hour after leaving Tullamarine Airport our rental car turns up the long drive lined with silver birches that leads to the Lodge at Dairy Flat Farm. The sister property to Daylesford’s acclaimed Lake House,which is just 10 minutes’ drive away,Dairy Flat Farm is a 38-hectare regenerative farm that supplies produce to the Lake House restaurant,including bread and pastries from the bake house beneath the lodge.
The look
Snug and stylish.
Step inside the Lodge’s sprawling main room and you instantly want to nestle in to one of the cosy seating areas;the only question is,which one? Perhaps you will head to one of the couches in front of the fireplace,or perhaps it is the smaller seating nook to the side where a bowl of tulips and a stack of glossy coffee table books awaits. There is an inviting kitchen to one side with a dining room table large enough to fit a football team. A library is on the far side. All of it is decorated in the distinctive Lake House style:an artful jumble of fabrics and furnishings,bespoke pieces and exquisite antiques,thick rugs and eye-catching art,much of it by the family’s late patriarch,Allan Wolf-Tasker.
The room
Dairy Flat Farm is the sister property to Daylesford’s acclaimed Lake House,which is just 10 minutes’ drive away.