Belle

Life encounter

he owners of this single-storey 1900s Queen Anne property in Melbourne’s Kew approached interior designer Fiona Lynch with a challenge: how to partner the traditional characteristics of their home with a more contemporary, pragmatic extension. Rather than creating a subtle shift, Fiona wanted to highlight the junction between old and new with a blackened-steel threshold. “We wanted to have two different experiences and very definite transitions into the new part,” she says of the addition, which has been designed in

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