Celebrity stylist Sibella bags $1.34 million from the sale of her former Paddington home.
According to Domain, Sibella Court listed her former shop last September seeking $1.65 million after deciding to transfer her styling headquarters to a warehouse in St Peters. The star of the ABC's "Restoration Australia" show bought the iconic corner shop back in 2008 for $900,000 from Peter Wadsworth. She, her partner Ben Harper and their daughter Silver, used it as their residence for a few years before they transferred to Bondi.
Celebrity stylist has initially listed the two-story property with Shannan Whitney and Darren Pearce of BresicWhitney.
ABC's "Restoration Australia" for two years have featured restoration efforts to seven remarkable building from Georgian mansions to colonial pug and pine cabins. The show aimed to help the seven groups of Aussie battlers, with limited budgets, restore homes that are not only plain residences but pieces of Australian history. Those projects were not easy to undertake but host and International Designer Sibella Court helped bring those projects to completion through the ABC show, while featuring the desires and plight of those Aussies battlers to restore their legacy properties to their former glories.
The last episode for Season 1 aired on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015. It featured Holowiliena, which was the only remaining countryside property in Australia kept by the original family, the Warwick family and their descendants, who settled in 1853.
In order keep up the show's practice on restoring old but remarkable and historical Australian structures, the restoration queen applied the same approach to the historic corner shop, keeping the property's original appearances while adding her own personal mixed style. The corner shop was eventually sold for $1.34 million to an architect by Ray White Real Estates Woollahra's Randall Kemp and Clay Brodie.