Inside Out

AGAINST THE ODDS

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Who lives here Felicity and Marc Bernstein, interior designer and architect at Melbourne Design Studios, with their children — Anna-Lena, 16, Leon, 12, and Joshua, 10 — plus groodles Charlie and Sox.

Style of home

A Passive House Premium property over two-and-a-half levels.

Location Inner north Melbourne, on land traditionally owned by the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.

The new build took three years from design through to completion.

hen Felicity and Marc Bernstein bought a small wedge-shaped plot of land adjacent to a train line in Melbourne’s inner north,

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