Hardworking Beauty
Perched in the upstairs lounge room of their timber-clad ‘long house’, we’re surrounded by the towering eucalypts and discreet bushy tracks that drew Oahn and Justin Harding to this pretty little pocket of Melbourne’s east near lush Laburnum. Even as Blackburn residents they didn’t know this area existed until discovering it on a walk to Gardiner’s Creek. They spent the next two years trawling six streets until they found a house for sale, and several more years in a claustrophobic 50s weatherboard disconnected from the undulating landscape that drew them here. Justin works in energy innovation, Oahn in design and marketing for a construction company. They took their time to understand the site, the
