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    PRESTON HOUSE II BY OLAVER

    Jul 31, 2022 4 minutes
    Words by Cassie Hansen
    Photography by Benjamin Hosking

    When I arrive to tour this house in the northern Melbourne suburb of Preston, the architects, the client and I stand in the front garden to talk about the original interwar home. While Emlyn Olaver and Lucia Amies of Olaver Architecture and client Lauren tell me about the front facade – the beautiful details, the steel-framed corner windows – my gaze trails off to the chalk drawings of whales and fish and waves along the brick exterior. “The kids did that for you guys,” says Lauren. It’s immediately clear this is a family home, and one where play and kidfoolery is ever-present and ever-accommodated.

    The two young kids were the

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