From the street, Dawn and Andrew Lindsay’s bayside Melbourne home doesn’t look all that different from its neighbours: a brick and timber-clad affair with a modest front lawn sliced by a two-track concrete driveway. Certain things, though, do suggest something a bit special might be hiding within. The place is painted pastel yellow, for example, punctuated by a cherry red front door. An impressive cactus collection lines the side fence. And, should you roll up the garage door, you’ll find a mint condition ’69 Ford Ranch Wagon nestled beside the bones of an under-construction hot rod.
Turns out the Lindsays are obsessed with American mid-century modern style and, over the past two decades,
