Australian House & Garden

Double take

You could say it’s not typical for a house to have its own name, let alone two of them. But the artfully reborn inner-city Perth home of award-winning building designer Kerry Jacobs and her interior-architect husband Simon is anything but run of the mill.

“We call it the ‘Veiled House’ because of the aluminium ‘veil’ that wraps around the upper floor,” says Kerry, who with Simon heads boutique building and interior design practice, JUO. “But almost everyone

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