• Art Deco excelled at elegant proportions. But there’s only so many times you can mess with perfection. “It was a duplex that had had multiple renovations to make it one, but it was the most disjointed rabbit warren of all time,” the client says of this house in Moonee Ponds that his young family bought in late 2015. “It scared people off at two, maybe three auctions. We saw what we could do with it. The location is just amazing. We thought ‘this feels right’.”
The brief was clear. “Fix it!” he summarises with