What actually makes a home beautiful once the cameras leave, the renovation dust settles and real life moves back in?
In part two of our conversation with Wendy Moore, the former Home Beautiful Editor-in-Chief, Selling Houses Australia interior designer and all-round interiors authority invites us inside her own Sydney Inner West cottage. And this is not a polished show-home tour. It’s far better.
Wendy takes host and Home Beautiful Editor-in-Chief Elle Lovelock through the hydrangeas, past the dodgy fence, into the side entrance, the light-filled void, the petrol-blue kitchen, the unfinished reading nook now claimed by the dog, and the freestanding bath in the main bedroom that everyone warned her against.
Together they talk about what really works in a home after six years of living in it, from natural light and kitchen colour to family dinner tables, awkward layouts, builder contracts, renovation regrets, vintage silver, fireplaces, bed linen and why the homes we love most are rarely the perfect ones.
“It’s a really lovely space. So it’s kind of not what I imagined it to be – it is still a family space – but it’s also a me space.”
Wendy Moore
“What I thought I knew more than I did is the business of building and understanding how best to engage a builder…”
Wendy Moore
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