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Louise Clarke and Peter Walmsley fell in love with their Sydney home the moment they saw it in 2017. The top-floor Art Deco apartment overlooks the walk to the historic rock pools and surf break of Fairy Bower, near Shelly Beach and the tourist mecca of Manly. Despite being badly renovated, its “great views and good bones” won through.

The couple, who are civil servants, travel to Sydney from their family home in Canberra every few weeks for work and wanted a bolthole where they could relax, display

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