There are houses, and there are houses in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. This home is the pinnacle of the latter, a 1000-square-metre colossus encompassing three floors, four bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a gym, sauna, ice plunge, wine cellar, games room, swimming pool and tennis court. Oh, and did we mention the cinema? This isn’t a home; it’s a resort.
“Basically the brief was to build the best house in the suburbs,” says architect Brian Meyerson, Principal Director of architecture firm MHNDU and cofounder and director of interior design studio Lawless & Meyerson. The family of five has lived in the house for a decade, but wanted to expand and update the property, acquiring the site next door, with its tennis court, to make this tenable. “Funnily enough, the studio I used to…
