Designer Dylan Farrell has performed a smart conjuring trick with this glamorous four-bedroom home in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs. In a magical transformation, he has deftly upped its formal, classical credentials, while, paradoxically perhaps, also making it fun and functional for family living.
The owners found plenty to love in this classically styled 1990s home, with its proverbial good bones, its large sloping block and huge fig tree in the front garden that dusted the interiors with dappled light. But it was also stiff and starchy, needing to let its hair down if it was to become an inviting family home. And it was
