See inside Luxe Listings Sydney star Tammy Soglanich's beautifully renovated terrace

Step through the blush-pink front door of this Sydney eastern suburbs terrace to discover a world of colour and style.

For home owner Tammy Soglanich – a prestige buyer’s agent at Cohen Handler who also appears in the TV reality series Luxe Listings Sydney – embracing her love of the prettiest hue in the rebirth of the turn-of-the-last-century house has produced joyous results.

This is no more evident than in the heart of the home, where the undisputed star is a playfully curvaceous and perfectly pink marble-swathed kitchen island bench.

In holding firm to her commitment to the colour, Soglanich was fully supported by her real estate agent husband James Bennett.

“I’ve worked with husbands and wives who are on completely different paths with the style they like,” she says.

“It’s no secret that I love pink. It’s my favourite colour. Our wedding had a pink theme to it, too.

“My husband loves pink as well, and when we came across this pink marble, we knew it was the one – that we had to have it for our kitchen.

“It was a gamble, as there wasn’t anything we could really reference it to. But we’re so pleased with how it turned out.”

Long drawn to their leafy inner-city neighbourhood with its storybook rows of heritage terraces, Soglanich and Bennett first walked through this three-level residence in early 2019.

At the time, they were far from discouraged by the fact that the house was calling for a style intervention.

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“It was the ugliest terrace we’d seen, but that’s what excited us both – it had so much potential,” Soglanich says.

“Many of the beautiful features you see in most terraces had been removed from this one, including a fireplace – although it still had a chimney.

“From the street, the terrace was painted red and yellow,” she says. “It looked like tomato sauce and cheese!

“Inside, it was all floral wallpaper that matched floral carpet, and the kitchen was dark brown. Quite a nightmare! No one had actually lived in it for two years.

“But my husband has vision, and we both felt we could turn it into something special.”

And that, the couple – who share the home with their adored chihuahua, Chloe – surely did.

Juxtaposed against the softness of the pink-painted door, a crisp white facade is fully in keeping with the stately streetscape. It’s over the threshold, however, that Soglanich and Bennett’s dream truly springs to life.

“We changed virtually everything here, only keeping the front and two side walls,” Soglanich says. “We added an extension out the back, put in oak herringbone flooring and all new windows, and the house had to be completely rewired.

“We changed the rickety old staircase for a Mediterranean-style curved plaster one and kept a curved theme throughout the house, with the arched doorways, curved fireplace and feature white steel-framed doors and windows.

“We also added skylights at the back, so the house has so much more light now.

“Our architect, Tanya Hancock, was amazing,” she adds. “Our builder was Matt Jones from Apex Bespoke Building and he was great too, and the renovation took about nine months.

“There can be unknowns with old homes, but we were very lucky that we really didn’t encounter too many issues.”

When it came to the decor, Soglanich and Bennett embellished the home with a cohesive collection of statement furnishings, from sculptural pendant lighting to shapely sofas and heavily veined marble tables.

“We decided to do all of the interiors ourselves – and we chose every single finish and piece,” Soglanich says. “It was a lot of work, but we loved it. We also had to be creative in fitting everything into a small space.”

It proved a very collaborative effort for the couple.

“My husband is really good spatially – he’ll instantly work out where things should go and how they’ll fit, whereas I’m better with the aesthetics, with the more fun, beautifying side of the interiors,” Soglanich says.

“We built the home to live in, so we wanted something that it is really us. And everyone who comes here says, ‘It’s so both of you!’”

With the renovation complete, Soglanich has found herself pondering the history of the terrace, and those who first called it home.

“The first owners would probably be a little bit shocked by the pink kitchen, because back in the late 1800s and early 1900s that would have been unusual,” she concedes with a smile. “But I think we have definitely maintained the charm of the house and made it a more functional place to live.”