Belle

LIGHT SWITCH

Faced with an overwhelming amount of dark timber joinery and chocolate-hued floors, the new owners of this house on Sydney’s lower North Shore called on interior design studio Hugh-Jones Mackintosh to lighten and brighten the interior for their young family.

The four-bedroom, three-bathroom home plus study had only been built a few years earlier, but the heaviness of its interior fit-out did not match the sunny position or the tranquil views of Sydney Harbour from

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