Australian House & Garden

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hey’re the words no homeowner – or designer – ever wants to hear: “there’s been a flood”. Yet it was this unwanted message that architect Anne Hindley of Hindley & Co received not long after the painstaking completion of this home in Melbourne’s inner east. “There was a sewage issue in the street and the entire ground floor had to be redone, including replacing the furniture and flooring,” she recalls. “The owners were upstairs when it happened and had to wade through water to get out

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