Nadia Fairfax-Wayne with husband Michael Wayne. Picture: Instagram

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Fashionista Nadia Fairfax-Wayne and her financier husband Michael Wayne have listed their grand redesigned Paddington terrace for auction.

The couple had bought the three-storey 1880s treasure Cawdor from the famous abstract painter Michael Johnson and his wife, Margot, for $4.05m in August 2020, ahead of their glamorous wedding at the heritage-listed Darling Point mansion Swifts in March, 2021.

The socialite and social media star and Wayne, the managing director of Medallion Financial Group, who welcomed baby daughter Cornelia last December, have since called in renowned designer Tamsin Johnson to redo the interiors.

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Colour my world …. “She wanted to push the envelope and use as much colour as possible.”

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The four-bedroom, two-bathroom home with garage on a 162sqm block is now listed with Samuel Schumann, the managing director of Raine & Horne Unlimited, for a late October auction with a $6m guide.

“The interiors have been crafted beautifully by Tamsin and the terrace is 6m wide, which is amazingly wide,” Schumann said.

“There’s still an opportunity to add value by redoing the studio above the garage and extending the deck.”

In a Vogue feature in May entitled “Inside the vibrant and playful Sydney home of Nadia Fairfax-Wayne”, Johnson says the brief was “to enliven the house and add more flavour and play”.

“The show-stopping kitchen serves as the social heart with a yellow onyx bench seating 12 people.”

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“An entertainer’s dream.”

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“Nadia didn’t want the expected cream house with travertine and floorboards,” Johnson added.

“She wanted to push the envelope and use as much colour as possible.”

Fairfax-Wayne passionately described her love of South Paddington in the feature saying: “Personally, I think it’s by far the top ranking part of Paddo — there’s no thoroughfare, we’re on the higher ground with fabulous proximity to Centennial Park, Woollahra and the swish new facilities of the Sydney Sporting Club.”

The home has four bedrooms.

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Both bathrooms have been redone.

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Schumann says the couple plan to upgrade to a larger home once this home sells, so it will be interesting to see where they end up.

The Paddington home is set to hit realestate.com.au next week, with the advertising blurb describing it as “an entertainer’s dream, with elegant living and dining areas, while the show-stopping kitchen serves as the social heart with a yellow onyx bench seating 12 people and bspoke banquette seating reflecting the vibe of a ritzy cocktail bar.”