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Federation house extension STRETCHING OUT

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JOINERY IS PIVOTAL TO THIS HOME’S CLUTTER-FREE FEEL. “WE CONCEALED THE TV BEHIND POCKET DOORS THAT RETRACT AND INCORPORATED STORAGE ABOVE,” SAYS INTERIOR DESIGNER LOUISA SHIPMAN. “THE FLUTED PROFILE ON THE JOINERY, COLOUR MATCHED TO WALLS IN DULUX VIVID WHITE, ADDS INTEREST WITHOUT OVERPOWERING THE ROOM.”

For expats Natalie and Michael, who returned to Australia with their two young children after several years in Singapore, the ‘holiday at home’ feel was central to the brief they gave interior designer Louisa Shipman to transform their Federation home in Willoughby

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