Kirsten Bookalil’s work as a stylist extends from food to lifestyles and interiors; she creates ideal scenes, but her Sydney apartment is more than that, it’s ideal living. Home to Bookalil, her two daughters and a Burmese cat called Monte the flat is a testament to Kirsten’s discernment and eye for quality. A renovation of a dilapidated 130sq ft apartment in a landmark Art-Deco building that required shrewd judgement and discriminating taste.