ARTIST AND DESIGNER RACHEL CASTLE
equates her cheerful four-bedroom, three-bathroom
Northbridge property to a comfortable pair of
jeans – “it’s big, baggy and easy to live in”.
Castle and her husband, Daz, first fell in love
with the 1930s residence for its neat, level
backyard (a rarity on Sydney’s hilly lower North
Shore) complete with a sizeable frangipani tree.
It’s an area that retained prominence when the
couple decided to renovate the downstairs space
several years ago, adding floor-to-ceiling black
steel-framed windows and doors that open out
onto the renewed outdoor decking.
The inside was also transformed into a flowing
living, dining and kitchen space that the family –
including teenagers Cleo and Lucas and beloved
sausage dog Sydney – spend the most time in.>“It’s like a
comfortablepair of jeans...
big, baggy
and easy to
live in”175
Pops of pink brighten
Castle’s home, from her
artworks (below left) to
a pretty door in her studioHOME