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    A BUSY BEE

    Feb 14, 2019 3 minutes
    by KIRSTY MCKENZIE

    For as long as she can remember, Kristine Franklin has loved decorating and rearranging furniture. By the age of 18, she had compiled a scrapbook packed with magazine cuttings as an aide-memoire for how her dream home would look. And when she and her husband, Luke, bought that home, or at least a modest first-home-buyer’s version of it on Melbourne’s northeastern outskirts, she was finally able to start translating her plans into reality.

    Several years down the track, that house is as camera ready as any we’ve ever

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