When the owner first walked into this back garden in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, she couldn’t believe her eyes. A historic two-metre-high wall and a former stable, both crafted in convict sandstone, enclosed it on two sides. “I felt I was in a Tuscan courtyard. You could never replicate those features – they just did it for me,” she says.
But while the backyard sealed the deal, the garden and the home’s industrial-style addition evoked rather less than for her and her husband. So they
