hen the owners of a harbourside family home in Chiswick, inner west Sydney, engaged Australian designer Tamsin Johnson to revive their five-bedroom property, the brief was for a short-term refresh before knocking it down and starting from scratch. However, spotting the property’s potential, Tamsin proposed a change of direction. ‘It was a tired home from the 1970s or early 1980s, but it had been largely untouched. Most importantly, the architectural
