Adam and Nikki Stewart’s Pettit+Sevitt home in Beacon Hill. Adam and the original owner swapped houses after Adam knocked on the door,offering to buy the house

Adam wanted a funky mid-century Sydney home. All he paid was stamp duty

The northern beaches furniture designer spent Sunday nights knocking on doors of houses he liked until he struck gold.

  • Julie Power

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The Paragon in Katoomba.

The state of the iconic Paragon Cafe left everyone in shock. Now ‘enough is enough’

The NSW government is taking action against the owner of the heritage-listed art deco cafe in the Blue Mountains.

  • Julie Power
Paragon,Katoomba

Inside the once-charming Paragon,a heartbreaking discovery is made

It epitomised glamour and fine dining for 110 years. Now,as our photos show,vandals have trashed its interior.

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Index illo for Sandakan

Sid and Ted:The best mates who ‘freakingly’ stuck together in life and death

Sid and Ted played tennis together as lads in Sydney. The two were among 2434 Australian and British prisoners taken prisoner of war by the Japanese and sent to Sandakan camp in Malaysia to build a new airstrip. Only six survived.

  • Julie Power
Apartment owners Ian Thackeray and Rebecca Kaiser during the walkthrough for the Rochford apartments in Erskineville.

The Sydney apartments that no one ever wants to leave

These inner west units are designed to feel like standalone homes. Little wonder it is hard to buy in.

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Matthew Flinders’ love letters are on display at the State Library of NSW.

Steamy love letters and happy face ‘emoji’ reveal hidden side of explorer

To mark the anniversary of Matthew Flinders’ wedding in 1801,a tranche of love letters will go on display at the State Library of NSW from April 17.

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Judy Mundey looks up at a mural that shows her late husband Jack Mundey - in the upper right with a loudspeaker - a leader of the Builders Labourer Federation and the green ban movement which saved the ’Loo for working-class people and defeated a proposal for highrise.

These murals honour Sydney’s hero of heritage. Will they be preserved themselves?

Murals depicting the Woolloomooloo community joining unions to save the historic area from development are fading. And not everyone wants them repainted.

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Sione Polhill and Bella Garner have travelled from Hay,NSW,to participate in a swimming carnival in Sydney.

The free public pool Jack built to stop ‘haunting’ fears of parents

Hay,population 3000,is bucking the trend of declining swimming carnivals with a large carnival and two weeks of swimming lessons for every primary student. Using its 50-metre pool is free.

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A design carrying the name Archer Designs for a 500metre square apartment at Altair which was withdrawn after owners ciriticism.

More like a tomb than luxury apartments:The plans dividing Sydney’s elite

It’s home to celebrities,politicians,lawyers,bankers and Hare Krishnas,but how will the Altair’s forecourt redevelopment turn out?

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CLT with TLC.

New Sydney homes that go up ‘like a Lego kit’

A leading architect whose clients include 20 of Australia’s richest people is experimenting with fast,sustainable materials on a row of four terraces in Bondi Junction.

  • Julie Power