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Australian House & Garden Magazine
|September 2021
When the team from Three Birds Renovations decided to create a namesake project home, they put all their favourite elements together under one roof.
As the CEO of home-design company Three Birds Renovations, Candice Fernandez knows a thing or two about the business of achieving a dream home. Recently, she and her family experienced first-hand just how life-transforming that journey can be.

Candice and her husband Drewe Letchford had always known it was a matter of time (and savings) until they renovated. With three growing children – Mia, 13, Joe, 11 and Hunter, four – in a singlestorey 1930s home, the irrefutable fact was that they needed more space.

They loved the neighbourhood and didn’t want to move, so they developed plans for a second-storey extension. They had selected a builder, paid a deposit and were poised to commence work – when they had an extraordinary change of plans.

This story is from the September 2021 edition of Australian House & Garden Magazine.
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