How long have you lived here and what drew you to the property?
As it had been configured as a boarding house, we did not live in it until the project was (almost) complete. The period of time from purchase to moving in was three years. We have been in the house now for just over two years.
Having completed a renovation – modest in scale, but big on ambition – some years ago, my wife Kate and I were keen to have another go. We had been looking for an opportunity for some time, one that enabled us to ‘do something different’. The house we bought was built in 1885, a substantial Italianate terrace.
Many larger terraces in this inner Sydney neighbourhood were abandoned, some became slums and some
