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WITH the mercury topping 40 it was cool relief to step into the long entry hall of this Vine Street, North Perth home. Over an icy glass of water and comfortably seated in the street-facing lounge, the vendor and I discovered a mutual love of travelling, and of vintage homes. The room was a pleasant…

NO grizzly bears were hiding behind the two massive urn water features nor in the greenery of the pleasant courtyard at this home in Canada Street. And there was no hint of the rugged, icy wilderness of Oscar-nominated film The Revenant–shot in the far north of North America. Not that cold weather would be a…

JARRAH or karri, was the debate as I lapped up the delicious 1920s’ ambience of this North Perth home, taking in features such as the rich brown floors under discussion. I bowed to the vendor’s superior knowledge–as a Heritage Perth board member he knows his stuff when it comes to these gracious older homes. Ornate…

SCOTTISH street names are sprinkled throughout Menora and include the likes of Clyde, Dumbarton, and Inverness, which literally means the mouth of the River Ness, home of the Loch Ness monster. There’s nothing mythical about this modern two-storey abode which sits on 814sqm, but it certainly has monster proportions. A sweeping curved balcony and deco-like…

ARCHITECTURE of the ancient city of Byzantium later Constantinople later Istanbul melds with early Australiana in this fascinating character home in North Perth. Huge double gates with brass lion knockers guard the entry to the Grosvenor Road home, which, with its pleasant front garden and timber decked sitting area, seems a modest abode. Inside ceiling…

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A  YEAR in Provence, Gone With the Wind and A Home Amongst the Gum Trees all morph in this Ascot home. The salmon pink exterior is so French provincial I expected to see a bicycle-riding mam’selle, flowers and a crusty loaf of bread in the carrier, riding down the leafy laneways. Soaring mature gum trees in parkland…

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THE vendors instantly recognised the beauty hidden in the bones of this Rookwood Street home but it would take a bit of effort before others recognised it. “It was a little lean-to place, with sand everywhere,” I was told. Thirty-six years later it’s a stunning three-bedroom Mt Lawley abode full of light-filled spaces, and surrounded…