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Before they’d even stepped through the front door, Suzy and Nick O’Rourke knew this home they’d come to inspect was the one. But because it was the first property they viewed, they weren’t completely confident about acting on their gut feeling. “We thought ‘surely it can’t be that easy?’” says Suzy. “So we looked at other houses for the next two months before we circled back and bought this one.”

Situated on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, the 1920s cottage did need some work.