RESTORED TREASURE Cool, calm and collected are the bywords for the Melbourne home of Claire, Andrew and their four children, Lucy, eight, Sophie, one, Ben, six, and Josh, three (enjoying afternoon tea on a setting from House of Orange, with mum, on the new deck, top left). While the heritage rooms at the front of the Victorian-style home – including the nursery (top right) – remain much the same, a light-filled extension at the rear incorporates the spacious timber deck, as well as the kitchen (bottom right), living room (above left) and dining room (opposite). In the latter,a 15-year-old table is given an update with elegant ‘Wishbone’ chairs from Cult, while greenery comes courtesy of a faux fiddle-leaf fig from Home By Tribal. Throughout the home, walls in Dulux Natural…
