Australian House & Garden

NATURAL PROGRESSION

“We love materials that age, weather and are a bit rough around the edges.”
BIANCA MARTIN, HOMEOWNER & INTERIOR DESIGNER

Architect Richard Smith of Architectsmith and his interior-decorator wife Bianca Martin, of Editor Interiors, often advise their clients to live in a space to fully understand its charms and quirks – and this is a philosophy they themselves embraced.

The couple moved from Sydney’s Inner West to its Northern Beaches with their young son in 2012, and lived on the site’s existing house for

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