Promise Kept
It’s the most honest brief of all time: “Don’t ruin the house!”
There was more to it than that, of course. Clients Sarah and Michael knew their modestly scaled, light-drenched, cream-brick home of the last 12 years (tucked behind the ABC’s old Ripponlea studios) was a highly functional beauty in need of sensitive modernising, not wholesale change. The kitchen (renovated in the 90s) and bathroom were dated. And although the house had a central living and dining space so generous it must have turned heads in the 50s, the
