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    Dec 03, 2020 3 minutes
    WORDS JACKIE BRYGEL
    PHOTOGRAPHY
    PABLO VEIGA

    Every now and then, something kind of wonderful emerges from the most curious of beginnings. And so it was in 2014 when Sydney architect Sarah Foletta and her husband Hamish embarked on the renovation of a strangely disjointed and partly dilapidated home in a coastal suburb.

    “It had already undergone a few transformations, or overlays,” says Sarah, “from 1940s worker’s cottage – or cockroach den – to an Italianate interpretation, and it was spectacularly wrong. The previous

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