Inside Out

Planned Perfection

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Who lives here A professional couple with their two children. Style of home Newly built two-storey, five-bedroom home with a patterned-brick facade. Location South-east Melbourne, traditional land of the Boonwurrung people of the Kulin nation.

Design and documentation took a year, and the 10-month build was completed by mid-2021.

Anna to being slightly daunted when one of her first commissions as a solo architect was to design a large contemporary home for a client who, despite having no previous hands-on building experience, wanted to act as owner-builder. “The prospect of ‘what could go wrong’ was incredibly real, but I was very happily surprised,”

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