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A mammoth renovation has turned a traditional Victorian terrace into one of Melbourne s most beautiful family homes.
The three-bedroom in Clifton Hill, four kilometres north-east of the CBD, was designed and built in 1885 by entrepreneur Walter Scott who combined his daughters names to call the house Elsie Leigh.
The house has a fairytale façade straight from a painter s canvas that was salvaged by Perkins Architects, who painstakingly stripped away heavy layers of wisteria that threatened to destroy the historic front.
A mammoth renovation has turned this traditional Victorian terrace into one of Melbourne s most beautiful family homes
The house has a fairytale façade straight from a painter s canvas, but the rear is truly contemporary
Designer Danielle Brustman used pastel colours, marmoleum flooring and playful hand-painted murals to create the interior of the Brighton Street Early Learning Centre in a brutalist building in Melbourne.
Each playroom in the concrete building, which was converted by Perkins Architects into a childcare centre, was allocated its own motif, which includes a river, meadow, star, sun and cloud. Brustman used these themes to come up with a narrative, treatment and palette for each space. The brief and scope for this project was so exciting as the clients were after something bold and unique, Brustman told Dezeen. I regularly use colour in my interior design work but it s not often I get the opportunity to be as bold with colours specification.