Design harmony

By Erin Munro
Updated January 28 2018 - 9:43am, first published December 15 2015 - 5:02pm
"We just wanted something where we'd use every space": Silvie Paladino. Photo: Chris Hopkins
"We just wanted something where we'd use every space": Silvie Paladino. Photo: Chris Hopkins
Meet Max: A five-year-old Lhasa Apso, Max joined the family a few months after they moved into their new home. “I never thought you could love an animal the way I love Max,” Paladino says. Photo: Chris Hopkins
Meet Max: A five-year-old Lhasa Apso, Max joined the family a few months after they moved into their new home. “I never thought you could love an animal the way I love Max,” Paladino says. Photo: Chris Hopkins
Guitar showtime: "David Cameron lent me that guitar with the intention that I was going to have some lessons and learn, and it’s been sitting in [the music room] for a year and I haven’t touched it.” Photo: Chris Hopkins
Guitar showtime: "David Cameron lent me that guitar with the intention that I was going to have some lessons and learn, and it’s been sitting in [the music room] for a year and I haven’t touched it.” Photo: Chris Hopkins
A swimming pool was recently installed in the back garden, and the finishing touches are being put to some outdoor tiling.  Photo: Chris Hopkins
A swimming pool was recently installed in the back garden, and the finishing touches are being put to some outdoor tiling. Photo: Chris Hopkins

Songbird Silvie Paladino has been a regular fixture of the Christmas Eve tradition, Carols by Candlelight,since she was 16. In fact, the annual concerts have become such a part of her life that memories of one in particular are inextricably intertwined with moving into the Niddrie home that she and her husband Greg designed themselves.

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