HOOD HOUSE BY MIHALY SLOCOMBE ARCHITECTS
Hood House, named for the distinctive window shroud at the rear of the home, could easily have been given the moniker Phoenix House. The architects at Mihaly Slocombe had designed, documented and navigated an arduous town planning process for this single-fronted terrace in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Carlton, only to have the project permanently shelved just as tool belts were being strapped on, when the clients opted to sell the property. Fortuitously, however, a couple retiring from farm life in regional Victoria found what they were after in both the house and its proposed reworking. Hood House was to rise again.
Even more fortuitously, new owners Glenda and Alistair were
