It takes just one look to see why this residential domain on Mounts Bay Road is called the White Apartments. The white stucco exterior is echoed in the stunning white marble cladding of the floor and walls of the entry, including a water feature wall. To call it anything else would fly in the face…

With the world agog at the imminent arrival of a new royal baby, it seemed appropriate to be reviewing a home on Queen Street, as I’d been hoping for a girl. The little princess would have made history, with recent historic changes to succession laws meaning a first-born girl is no longer passed over for…

I was puzzled by what looked like a second entry to this Thirlmere Road, Mt Lawley home. Sure enough there was the trademark art deco curved-roof portico and verandah—but no door. I scratched my head until the agent arrived, telling me there had been an entry to the servants’ quarters when the home was built…

AUTUMN hues frame Claisebrook Cove and its cute collection of homes across the water. It could be Europe: Germany, Denmark, perhaps? But no, this is definitely East Perth where charming homes congregate around sparkling water, trees bloom even in winter (except those that drop leaves and still look magnificent), and nobody seems to be in…

I am used to homes being pristine when I arrive and this place in Stone Street, Bayswater was no different. Then I discovered the vendor has four-year old twin boys, a seven-year-old daughter and an energetic dog. I take my hat off to her, I can’t stay mess-free for more than five minutes with just…

Dianella is named after the Dianella revoluta, a native flax lily that once grew in abundance in the area. The suburb has gone gangbusters since development kicked off in the 1960s—sad for the local lily, but great for home-owners, with real estate agents dubbing one section “the golden triangle” due to the high prices homes…

HENRY LAWSON wrote of adversity in the Australian bush and the heart-breaking grind of daily life on the land. Which is in stark contrast to the East Perth street that bears his name. This four-bedroom/three-bathroom apartment is a luxurious abode surrounded by rolling green parkland and the waters of Claisebrook Cove. There’s no dust, mud…

ONE of quite a number of things I like about Royal Street in East Perth is I never have trouble parking. It makes me feel like I’m in a movie. You know the scenario, Jenny the heroine screams up ready for action, and there’s a parking bay right out the front—no matter if it’s downtown…

NOT too many people get the chance to buy the home they grew up in, but the vendor of this palatial home in Flinders Street, Mt Hawthorn did just that. Not that her girlhood self would have recognised the place, after the single-storey ‘60s home was transformed into a spacious, two-storey modern abode, sitting proudly…

FOR reasons best known to poms they call a stand-alone house a bungalow and a duplex/terrace a house. Must be something to do with all that drizzle. To live the life of perpetual summers, check out this “bungalow” on Summers Street in Perth. Sitting on 237sqm it has all the cuteness of a cottage and…