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as this laid-back, light-filled home brilliantly proves. Like many architects, Sydney-based Nikki Mote had placed her own home at the bottom of the to-do list. “It took so long to get started that my husband threatened to bring in another architect,” she says with a laugh. But, in her mind at least, she was shaping this inspired