Peace and quiet can be hard to come by when two adults and four children share the same house. Throw in a kitchen full of keen cooks, cello, violin and piano practice, plus a steady flow of guests, and this narrow worker’s cottage in Sydney’s Inner West had its work cut out to become a comfortable family home for six: doctors Maureen and Chris and their children, Eli, 10, Pyari, 15, Imani, 18, and Aruna, 20, plus Bordoodle, Rafiki.
In 2016, after moving eight times in 10 years due to work, the couple searched for a five-bedroom, turn-key
