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PADDINGTON HOUSE MEET THE OWNER WORKING WITH AN ARCHITECT

Michelle Bailey What were your early ambitions for this project?

My idea was to find a “renovator”– a side project that would challenge me and that I could sell when it was finished. Because of this, I was looking for the most rundown house on the best possible street in Paddington, with city views. These types of houses are typically very hard to come by, so I was lucky to find one. This block had a lot of building constraints: a steep

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