HACIENDA dreaming

Sometimes you know when you’ve found the one. That’s how Leah Henricks and her husband Blake felt when they first stepped inside their dream home in a beach-side suburb of east Sydney. ‘There’s something about this house that makes you feel relaxed when you walk through the door,’ says Leah. ‘We were a young family of four living in a two-bedroom semi and bursting at the seams. We were about to start building from scratch but thought we should take a look at the market to understand what we’d get if we bought instead.’ That’s when they