Belle

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Crafting a family home from a former commercial property offers challenges and opportunities in equal measure. So when Alexandra Ponting of AP Design House was tasked with breathing new life into the former gallery space of a high-end auction house in Sydney’s eastern suburbs she took a bold approach, in keeping with her client who engaged her within two days of inspecting the property.

An iconic, red-brick Art Deco building dating from 1930 and in a row of three, it had the advantage

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