The chances of finding a property that ticks all the boxes are, as we all know, pretty slim. As long as the pros outweigh the cons though, you can usually find a way to make it work.
For the owners of this penthouse apartment, the location was definitely the selling point and any shortcomings in the actual design could be overcome or remedied, says John Cockings, principal of JCA Architects.
"The building's architects had really done a good job with the design, incorporating a number of interesting elements. However, the new owners felt that the whole fell just short of what they wanted.
"The structure is concrete frame and slab with Gyprock walls, so the apartment was fairly straightforward to reconfigure."
Cockings and his team have worked twice previously with the homeowners and spent two months working on the logistics of the project, which included stripping the apartment back to its bare bones and removing and replacing interior walls.
"Essentially the configuration has remained the same, and while the works carried out were fairly intensive, they are in the end, discreet," says Cockings.