Australian House & Garden

NEW WORLD CHARM

ome properties have the magical ability to transport you to another time and location, and this personality-filled terrace house in Melbourne is just such a place. Although just 81 square metres, the home is nevertheless a wonderful sanctuary for the owner, Teresa and her young son, Matias, with design references throughout that call to mind her Portuguese heritage. The three-bedroom two-storey terrace, built in the 1800s, was very unloved when Teresa and her late husband Tom purchased it, attracted by

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