The first bedroom
The room that started it all: a neglected space stripped back by hand and reborn as a calm Sicilian retreat, with original features restored.
The house
From one euro to one of a kind.
Two of Australia’s best-known design judges bought this crumbling stone house sight unseen, then spent a season putting their own reputations on the line to bring it back to life.
Half the original structure had to come down. What rose in its place is a home that keeps the soul of an old Sicilian village house (exposed stone, hidden arches, timber beams, reclaimed tiles) and pairs it with the warmth and ease of contemporary Australian design. Every room was designed, sourced and finished on camera, much of it with Sicilian craftspeople: hand-made tiles, local marble, artisan ceramics, a chandelier found in Palermo.
Two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a powder room, a kitchen, lounge and summer room, a private walled garden and a terrace. It is sold fully furnished, exactly as you see it, and ready to live in.
A walled garden, a summer room built for long lunches, and a terrace for watching the sun go down over the Sicani mountains.
