Australian House & Garden

INNER STRENGTH

“You never feel you are inside or outside, but rather in one single space.”
PHIL, OWNER

Like Doctor Who’s TARDIS, this three-bedroom one-time worker’s cottage in Sydney’s inner west grows bigger and bigger as you move through it. And it takes its owners, Phil and Kate and three-year-old Harrison, to exciting places. While it presents at the street as humble and compact, beyond the tessellated porch, it’s a state-of-the-art family home with a sleek rear facade.

When the couple bought the property in 2019, location

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