Australian House & Garden

Twice BLESSED

A grand estate in Sydney’s eastern suburbs has been given a new lease of life – for a second time. US-born interior designer Lynda Kerry and her Australian husband Mark bought the 1840s property, known as Ecclesbourne, in 2010. They subsequently undertook an extensive renovation that both reinstated its former glory and sympathetically contemporised it.

The property had been on the market for quite some time when Mark saw it. He

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