SOUL REVIVAL
ometimes it takes an expert eye to spot a diamond in the rough. Case in point is this once-dilapidated Federation cottage, which attracted just one bidder when it went to auction seven years ago – its current owner, Mei. “It was a hovel before!” the former architect and mother-of-two admits. “There was mould on the walls, the floor creaked, the bathroom was leaking – everything needed to be
