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OLD FLAME

“IT’S A CRAZY LITTLE MAXIMALIST CORNER WITH A BIG BURST OF OBJECTS AND ART …”

he homeowners of this 1800s double-fronted miner’s cottage in Melbourne’s inner north, Bev Adam and Craig Shearn, didn’t realise that the neighbours were whispering about their renovation until somebody gave them the 411. “A friend told me they were ‘getting used to it’,” Bev says, referring to the exterior that has been saturated in dramatic, heritage ‘Oxblood’ by Porter’s Paints. “People were stopping

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