SPARKING JOY
When fashion designer Rachel Gilbert and her husband, former TV presenter Tom Williams, bought their four-bedroom Mosman, Sydney, home at auction back in 2015, it was far from its original Art Deco glory. “It had green walls and yellow fireplaces!” Gilbert recalls with obvious horror. Renovating it to something more in line with its original aesthetic was a painstaking 18-month process, one that Gilbert — not unwillingly — was heavily involved in.
The couple made sizeable extensions to the house, including the entranceway, upstairs bedroom and rear living area, knocking out several walls and relocating the kitchen in the process — rendering the house near
