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For most of the week, Marly Boyd, her property developer husband, John Boyd, and their two sons, Patrick and Joseph, reside 43 storeys above Sydney’s CBD. The 2400-square-metre, three-level abode atop ANZ Tower holds a handful of illustrious records, such as the city’s highest residence and Australia’s most expensive apartment listing, at $66 million (it also houses the largest custom rug in the southern hemisphere). So it makes sense that Boyd, who grew up for the most part in a remote log cabin built by her father in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains (“It had no power; it was pretty much off-grid, except the term for it then was just ‘remote’”), would crave something more … down to earth.

The pair decided to knock down the existing structure on their Palm Beach property, purchased just over a decade ago. “It was