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Styling JAMEE DEAVES

Every Saturday for two years the owners of this home dedicatedly went “house shopping”. Despite its lacklustre real-estate images, they knew this Mosman property was ‘the one’ instantly. “The listing wasn’t great and the outside wasn’t particularly charming but we were instantly captivated by the high ceilings. We knew we could do something really special with it,” they say.

Owned by one family for five decades, the home had been divided into three separate apartments, each with its own kitchen and lived in by different members of the family.

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