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With a luminous, light-filled upstairs and a solid sandstone lower level firmly rooted to the hillside, this home on Sydney’s Northern Beaches has proved both inspiring and grounding for its occupants – owners Susan and Andrew, and their adult daughter, Alexandra, known to all as Bub.

Crafted by interior designers Louise Walsh and Kelly Taylor, and architect Tim Alexander, it’s both handsome and highly functional – and it definitely needed to be. “We bought the property in 2014, following Bub’s life-changing brain injury, which she sustained