“Light is everything in a space,” says interior designer Pia Watson, the owner of this 1900s weatherboard worker’s cottage in Sydney’s inner west. So it’s no surprise that lashings of daylight topped the renovation wish list for Pia and project architect Klaus Carson. But today’s luminous spaces belie the humble home she and her husband Matt Brown lived in before enlisting the tradie army.
It was the home’s latent charms that seduced the couple in 2014, especially