t is increasingly rare to encounter historic coastal homes that have been sympathetically altered and retained by new owners. Often, they are given a sterile and superficial facelift or a total bulldoze and rebuild. We are fortunate to have two precious, magical and somewhat eccentric homes located at Pittwater, north of Sydney, to show you this issue. readers will be no stranger to the work of UK-born landscape designer Richard Unsworth. He and his dear friend, Justine, and their respective partners, Greg and Scott, bought Trincomalee, formerly Justine’s mother Heather’s house, in 2015. The friends have continued the home’s sympathetic rejuvenation journey in the garden especially – see . Craig Andrade, who is from South Africa, impulsively decided to buy nearby Ventnor when he saw it by chance passing by in a Halverson he had hired – see .
