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URBAN FAIRY TALE

HOW did The Wife get The Husband to move out of their home when he was clearly reluctant to leave the life and luxury of that leafy suburb?

She did it slowly, lovingly and with incredible style. The Wife had fallen in love with inner-city warehouse, originally a wool shed built in 1886. She liked the enormity of it, the original wooden floorboards – beautifully scored by years of use – and cast-iron pillars. She loved that it felt like a sanctuary; that the space was comforting, as if it had taken on all the warming characteristics of the many bales of wool that had once been stored inside it.

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