Opposites attract with often striking results, as this home in Melbourne’s Elsternwick brilliantly proves. Two creative minds with dissimilar temperaments – design dynamo Anna Spiro of Anna Spiro Design and her calm “solid rock”, Luke Warwick, managing director of fabric wholesaler Elliott Clarke – have curated a retreat that celebrates colour and pattern, in captivating contrasts. Diverse elements form a harmonious whole that could be a metaphor for their relationship.
When the couple bought the four-bedroom Victorian house in late 2020, it had sat vacant for 30 years. In the 1950s, rather strangely, it had acquired a curved brick facade that jarred with the rest of the
