IT’S SO COOL, IT DOESN’T QUITE SEEM REAL. But Emma Peel and Danny Walsh’s renovated Mediterranean mansion functions as a living, breathing house – as well as a gallery for all things retro and vintage. Pop your head in the front door and you’re greeted with a terrazzo staircase, courtesy of the original Italian owners, who built this double-storey suburban palace back in 1974. Hang a left and you’re stepping straight into a psychedelic cubbyhouse: wall-to-wall vintage clothing (arranged according to colour – and there’s every colour), musical instruments (including Emma’s old-school keyboard) and, up the back, a fully stocked mezzanine bar, set under a timber archway. “Everything’s an arch in this place,” Emma observes. “There’s even an arch over the bath. It’s the best.”
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