THERE’S a touch of the country manor to this Maylands home, with its long driveway, wrought iron gates and a grassed “parkland” with ornamental fruit trees. Sitting on 1164sqm, there’s room for the kids to race their tricycles in a mini Tour de France, or smack a ball for six on the MCG-sized lawn. A…

THIS late art deco home on Raglan Road, Mt Lawley has the perfect balance of old and new. In terms of location it’s hard to beat with the Beaufort and Fitzgerald/Angove Street precincts and Hyde Park only a stroll away. By the time this two-bedroom house was built, deco had taken on sharper lines, with…

IT’S not easy being green, but it is beautiful according to Kermit the Frog. And I couldn’t agree more after stepping into the lush courtyard of this Harold Street, Mt Lawley home. Tall trees, shrubs and flower beds are framed by high spearmint-coloured walls and a dark green lawn, giving this alfresco a misty, dream-like…

THE ice cream tones of this delightful Inglewood home had my mouth watering the minute I laid eyes on the strawberries and cream exterior. And the light and dark chocolate federation-style tiles on the spacious verandah had me dreaming about sipping ice coffee and watching life trundle by on summer evenings. Inside this Harcourt Street…

WHEN Joseph Hardey and his band of Wesleyan Methodists took up land on the Maylands peninsula in 1830 you can bet there was a heartfelt “thank the Lord”. Months travelling from Blighty aboard the small sailing ship Tranby, with 37 passengers, 14 crew and an assortment of livestock was no doubt cramped, while the lack…

PERTH architect Harold Boas—the man behind London Court and the old Swan Brewery—only designed a handful of private homes during his illustrious career. One of them was a beautiful manor house on Alexander Drive in Menora, built in 1927 for a violin manufacturer. The lounge’s stunning vaulted ceiling, punctuated with dainty plaster roses, was designed…

A  house is made with walls and beams, a home is built with love and dreams,” mused American philosopher Waldo Emerson. Which made we wonder, how many and what kind of people have lived in this Emmerson Street home in North Perth? Looking at its white picket fence, the character three-bedroom house would have seen…

A  RED front door is considered lucky and is a welcoming energy in feng shui. There might be something in the Chinese philosophy, because when you open the cherry-red door of this Bayswater home there’s a sense of a peaceful welcome and I can feel the positive chi wash over me. It could also be…

IT’S always a pleasure to visit Menora, with its leafy streets and stately older homes, and arriving at 14 Melrose Crescent was no exception. “What a cute little house,” I blurted out to the owner, trying to retract the word “little” as this two-storey home actually has four bedrooms and two bathrooms, and sits on…

IN another lifetime I would wander across to Macaulay Park in Inglewood with the intellectually disabled kids from Brighton Hostel. The multi-bed hostel closed a while back—the residents moved to more family-style group homes—making way for a boutique housing estate that includes this Macaulay Crescent abode. Sitting on 363sqm, the two-storey home is the epitome…