Australian Home Beautiful

Higher Love

An empty site in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs with sweeping ocean views was too hard to resist for colour consultant Kate Ward and her husband Rob who live here with their three children. They knew it could provide the foundations for a forever family home.

The property had previously been occupied by a ho-hum rambling home, which had been demolished and the lot split into two, with each large enough for a family dwelling. In 2018, with two newly renovated houses in their home-hunting sights, the couple switched to this even more enticing option. “With park and ocean views,

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