Third time luckiest

It’s a sunny spring morning when I ride my bike through the burgeoning back streets of Willunga to visit Tony and Sally French-Kennedy at their new home. As their third ‘owner-build’, it confirms the adage that you need to build three houses before you get it just right. Designed by their son Reuben, the benefits of growing up among house builds are clear: despite being early in his career, this house is close to perfection.

Tony reflects on his son’s work with gratitude and pride saying, ‘because we’d built before, it was tempting