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Anticipating the day when they downsize from their spacious family home into this one-bedroom South Yarra apartment, Ange and Bruce decided to renovate. It sits on the sunny third floor of a beautiful old building designed by interwar architect Arthur Plaistid and built in 1938.

The team at Brave New Eco took on the renovation (studio coordinator Deborah Lacey is pictured), keeping some key features, such as the wonderful checkerboard tiles. “They were in perfectly good condition and we quite liked the pattern. It plays well with

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