his spacious three-level home in a coveted enclave in Melbourne could have easily lost its ‘soul’ if the owners, builder Neil McLennon and his wife, Melany, hadn’t purchased it. They missed out the first time it was put on the market in 2016. “Then, in 2019, my daughter was walking past the property and told us that an auction board had just gone up,” says Neil, director of Neocon, who with Melany and their two adult children, Hanako and Angus, weren’t going to miss out a second time around. “We saw its potential even
