White MAGIC
Serial renovators Deb and Ross Coffey’s purchase of a dated 1990s house close to Sydney’s Balmoral Beach had their friends seriously worried about the amount of work that needed to be done. “I’ll never forget the expressions of terror on some of our friends’ faces when we moved in,” says Deb. The solid-brick house was built in 1998 and possessed all the finishes typical of the era:
