When it came to designing a home for herself, interior designer Emma Blomfield wasn’t short of inspiration. In fact, her problem was filtering through ideas collected over a 15-year design career. “I wanted to make so much of it beautiful,” she says. “But I had to keep reminding myself that things needed to work well, or it would frustrate me forever.” The two-bedroom apartment on Sydney’s Lower North Shore with a bathroom and powder room, was built in the 1930s and possessed a layout typical of its era, featuring a series of small, segregated rooms. In addition, several unsympathetic renovations had
