WHEN FASHION DESIGNER Kylie Zerbst and her husband Simon Murray were looking for a house to buy about 10 years ago, they came across a cloud-like shape painted on a kitchen wall. It reminded Kylie of one of Simon’s artworks and was enough to spark off an emotional attachment to the partly renovated single-fronted terrace in the inner-city Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy North.
Kylie and Simon, a digital creative director in an advertising agency, had been looking at quite a few places. “But none of them felt like us,” she says. “They were all either totally rundown or newly renovated with zero charm. We were happy to do work on them, but couldn’t have afforded a total reno. When we
