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PHOTO:\u00a0Russell Beard and Stephanie Lambert with their son at the Reservoir Street property in Surry Hills they call home.\u00a0Photo:\u00a0Christopher Pearce<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n If you\u2019ve ever dreamed of residing in somewhere as hip as Sydney\u2019s new Paramount House Hotel, then you might want to try the house 300 metres down the road in Surry Hills that was its prototype.<\/p>\n Hospitality and cafe entrepreneur Russell Beard is\u00a0now selling his home<\/a>\u00a0that he used as a living template for the hotel \u2013 all the way down to the robe hooks in the bathroom.<\/p>\n Outside, it looks like any other unprepossessing 100-year-old local terrace. But step inside, and it\u2019s a magical wonderland of cool, from the\u00a0bathroom with its 4.5-metre ceiling and a retractable skylight, to\u00a0the series of connected bright open\u00a0spaces.<\/p>\n READ MORE VIA DOMAIN\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n