Lightness Of Being

With their children now grown, the owners of this Sydney home decided it was high time to ready their abode for a new life phase.

- Judy Pascoe

After 21 years in this Sydney home, owners Kim and Gregg felt it was beginning to look a little tired. There was no question of abandoning the much-loved abode. Although three of the couple’s four adult children had moved out, the home’s spaciousness and leafy North Shore location were perfect; a makeover was deemed appropriate.

Kim had admired the work of interior design firm Studio Gorman in a magazine and began following its principal, Suzanne Gorman, on Instagram. “It was as simple as that – I liked her work,” she says. Initially, Kim and Gregg’s brief was to redo the main bedroom, but it quickly escalated to include most of the circa-1907 two-storey house.

The main bedroom suite, which occupies a prime position at the front of the first floor, was serviceable but not spectacular. “There was an unused bedroom alongside the main suite, which we could convert into a walk-in wardrobe,” says Suzanne. “Then we could use the whole of the space formerly split between ensuite and wardrobe for a luxurious main bathroom.”