LAVISH ATTENTION

You can usually trust your nearest and dearest to tell it like it is. So when artist and stylist Peach Panfili was told by her son that the house she had just bought was a “complete dump”, she knew there was an element of truth to his assessment. But through the pub carpet and worn lino, light bulbs hanging directly from the sockets, unlined ceilings and mission-brown paint, Peach could see that the low-slung timber cottage had potential. She then went about realising it.

“One end of the house was built in 1892 as the manager’s cottage for an orchard,”