He fell in love at first sight—and then some. So besotted was he that there was no question of a token payment; the owner insisted on the full amount being paid upfront, and he obliged. “Because it was COVID, the registrar’s office was closed,” he adds. “So the registrar came to us to complete the transfer of ownership.”
To him, the home took the guise of a bride—and not without reason. Portuguese records revealed its history: given as a dowry in the late 1800s, it passed quietly through generations before its final custodian let it go. “I saw it as a beautiful woman,” he says, his voice softening, almost reverent. “It had this feminine energy.” His instinct, then, was not to overwrite that character but to restore it—gently—while introducing a contemporary counterpoint. Rather than build upward, he expanded horizontally, adding a modern annexure of metal, glass and wood housing a lounge, guest bedroom and kitchen. Within the original structure, the old kitchen became bedrooms and an attic, its domestic heart reimagined without erasing the past.
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