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    If I remember the facts correctly, there's a NSW court case where a unit owner replace their apartment's standard floor tiles with far more expensive marble(?) tiles, at the owner's own cost. The unit was sold. Later the tiles needed repairing and litigation ensued between the owners corporation and the new owner. The owner's corporation was finally required to pay for the repairs. This is because it's still common property even if you've ripped out the original property and replaced it with an expensive substitute, and the owners corporation granted consent (which can be expressly given or implied) to the renovation.

    I heard the story at an Owners Corporation Network workshop on building defects.