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Who lives here Shaun Caton, co-founder and co-director of The Melbourne Builder; his fiancée Phoebe Simmonds, co-founder of baby parenting retailer The Memo; Shaun’s son Tyler, six; Shaun and Phoebe’s son Remy, nine months; plus Zeus, a golden retriever/samoyed cross.

Style of home A four-bedroom “contemporary Edwardian” new build.

Location Murrumbeena in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs, traditional land of the Boon Wurrung people.

Shaun and Phoebe bought the land in January 2021, construction began that August and was done by December. The build was in the region

of $900,000—$1.2m.

Having already renovated five houses of

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