Belle

BRIGHT SPARK

HAT APPEALED TO YOU ABOUT YOUR HOME? From the street, it’s a fairly unassuming 1920s Californian bungalow. When you enter, however, a floor-to-ceiling glass window looks out onto a generous north-facing garden with a pool and assortment of fruit trees – orange, mandarin, apple, apricot. The property was once owned by a builder who used high-quality materials in the extension and unusually wide Sydney blue gum timber floors. When we bought the house in 2020, we inherited

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