Home Design

THE CHOICE OF A LIFETIME

There comes a time in every home’s life when it requires a major overhaul. For this solid-brick 100-year-old home in Victoria’s Elsternwick, that moment had arrived. “The house had fallen into a state of disrepair, with significant drainage problems, and mould was prevalent throughout,” says Tamara Tsarouhas, a qualified interior designer from Studio Tamara. “The garden had become an overgrown mess.”

Of course, this state of disrepair did not happen overnight. The house had been owned within the one family for many decades and, in

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