SEA CHANGE

WHAT BEGAN AS A SIMPLE KITCHEN RENO SOON BECAME A MULTI-ROOM OVERHAUL FOR A NAUTICALLY INCLINED EMPTY NESTER IN SUBURBAN SYDNEY

WORDS DAN F STAPLETON

Keen cook and entertainer Heather Low didn’t actively dislike her kitchen. But in 2019, having been recently widowed, she began thinking about ways to enhance what was quite a small space. “I wanted the kitchen to be a room that people could spend time in – myself included,” she says. “My first idea was to replace the existing granite benchtop with something larger.” Heather contacted her friend, designer Cate Liedtke of Catherine de Meur Interiors, and began brainstorming ideas for a sleek, modern kitchen. There was only one problem: Heather’s house, where she and her late husband raised two boys, had a very distinctive interior style. “It was built by Clarendon Homes in 1989,” Heather explains. “Everything in the house was very much of that time.” One retro feature was…

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