The walls were bowed and seemingly held together by little more than paint, but when Rebecca Lorraine and Rory Langdon came across this crumbling Victorian terrace in 2005, they were drawn to the challenge. “It was the first house we’d bought together and we were charmed by the high ceilings, the fact that it was elevated from the road, and the private, north-facing backyard,” says Rebecca. “We hoped that one day we could turn it into something incredible.”
They lived in the house, which is smack-bang in the middle of Melbourne’s eclectic Brunswick, for 12 years before the time came to turn their dream into something more substantial. “We knew we probably had to knock it down and start again,” says Rebecca. “We considered whether it would be better to move,…
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Inside Out (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2019