Kylie Villareal found her current abode in 2004 while she was finishing the renovation of her home in a nearby suburb. “I was on my way to look at tiles for the last bathroom with my mum, and she wanted to look at a block for sale in the street where she used to live,” the Sydney mother-of-three explains.
She saw the building, fell in love and bought it. “My husband, Lito, was totally against the purchase,” Kylie admits. “We were just about to complete our Malabar home and he wanted to enjoy the space we’d just created. He
