HOUSE PROUD

Growing up in the bustling high-rises of New York City, Zander Saunders often imagined what it would be like to ride his bike around a sleepy suburban block and adventure through the dense thickets of his own leafy neighbourhood. So, many years later, when a 19th-century worker’s cottage in Sydney’s inner west was put on the market, Zander and partner Alex Payne decided to carve out that long-dreamt-of urban oasis for their daughter Brooklyn.