Australian Home Beautiful

STATE OF PLAY

It’s easy to lose track of time when you live in a home as beautiful as this renovated heritage red-brick cottage in Canberra. “I’m forever just wandering around, touching things, opening things, admiring things,” says its owner, Barbara, who lives here with her husband, Len. “Everywhere you look, there’s something to admire. It’s just a whole new feel to what we had before.”

The couple bought the home in the early ’90s. It was originally designed in 1926 by

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