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The editor’s desk

Many of us in the media industry have found ourselves doing jobs we never thought we would. I studied music theatre before getting my journalism degree to hopefully be in TV news. But writing became my forte ... and here I am. This week’s cover star, Samantha Armytage, and our second feature interviewee, Peter Hitchener, know this tale. Armytage swapped news for hosting the new season of Farmer Wants a Wife, and Hitchener was an aspiring actor until taking on Nine News. At the heart of it, those in these jobs are storytellers, and Armytage and Hitchener are two of the finest in the biz. ●

Compiled by HAILEY COULES

HIGH SCORE \ Treat yourself to the autumn Niku Kappo Wagyu Omakase menu at South Yarra’s Yakikami – 12 courses of the finest produce sourced from Japan and Australia. ● yakikami.com.au

PAST TIMES \ Step back in time with a trip to the Ballarat Heritage Festival. From May 19 to 28, immerse yourself in Candlelight Concerts, Tweed Rides and an Antique Fair. ● ballaratheritagefestival.com.au

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RURAL ROOTS \ Olympic snowboarder Scotty James has joined with St Hubert’s Estate winery and AirSeed to announce the planting of 100,000 seed pods in areas affected by climate change. ● sthuberts.com.au

GOING GLOBAL \ The NGV Triennial exhibition is back from December 3. Schiaparelli and Yoko Ono will be featured, while Tokyo artist Azuma Makoto will be celebrating Australian plants. ● ngv.vic.gov.au

KATE PASCOE

ARIANNA HARRY

Edouard, Nathalie and Antoine Reymond

BISTRO GITAN, L’HOTEL GITAN AND FREDERIC Siblings Edouard, Nathalie and Antoine Reymond worked in their father’s restaurant Jacques Reymond growing up, and knew their shared love of hospitality would lead to opening a restaurant one day. Bistro Gitan opened in 2010, followed by L’Hotel.

Their latest venue, Frederic, opened in 2019.

“There is an immense amount of support, respect and understanding that working together brings, and after 13 years of being in business together, our bond is stronger than ever,” says Nathalie.

“Things can get tense at times, but we always find a middle ground and agree in the end, as respect is very important,” says Antoine.

They honour their childhood staple of steak and chips on their menu.

Good chemistry

FOOD Running a restaurant with loved ones can be a recipe for success.

Words JANE ROCCA

They run some of our city’s best-known and most successful restaurants and are proof that working as a loved-up couple or as siblings in business makes the culinary adventure even more fulfilling and fun. ●

BAR LOURINHA

Jo Gamvros and Matt McConnell (brother of Cumulus head chef Andrew McConnell) opened Bar Lourinha in 2006. The pair met through mutual friends 30 years ago when Matt was an apprentice chef and Jo was studying visual arts/photography and working front of house.

“The greatest benefit of working together is always being able to have each other’s back,” Gamvros says, adding that juggling work and family can be hard, but also rewarding.

McConnell says: “For me, the hardest thing … is not seeing Jo receive equal praise as I do. Front of house, restaurant management and women in the industry in general don’t receive the same accolades and praise that [male] chefs do.”

“Our father has the most incredible work ethic and stamina, which he greatly instilled into all of us,” says Antoine. “Dad taught us about the whole package of hospitality: cuisine, service, your staff, your venue, the ambience. And that is what we are very strict with, how we all work and how we run our restaurants.”

Simon Denman and Almay Jordaan

NEIGHBOURHOOD WINE AND OLD PALM LIQUOR OWNERS

Husband-and-wife duo Simon Denman and chef Almay Jordaan met working together in London in 2008, and 10 months later they started dating. They moved to Melbourne together in 2009, and now have two young children.

The couple launched Fitzroy’s Neighbourhood Wine in 2012 and on the back of its success, opened Brunswick’s Old Palm Liquor in 2019.

“The first five years of Neighbourhood Wine was a lot of learning as a couple, learning how to disagree with each other and respect each other’s boundaries,” Jordaan says.

“One’s natural instinct is to micromanage but we learned to let go of that need,” Denman says. ●

Edouard, Nathalie and Antoine Reymond.

Matt McConnell and Jo Gamvros

WILLEM-DIRK DU TOIT

Simon Denman and Almay Jordaan.

Matt McConnell and Jo Gamvros.

The role of a lifetime

MEDIA Broadcaster Peter Hitchener is celebrating a major career milestone.

Words LUKE DENNEHY

Before becoming a much-loved newsreader, Peter Hitchener had his eye on another career –as an actor.

Hitchener, 77, who this year is celebrating a remarkable 50 years at Channel 9, could have easily ended up on the stage or screen and not on the news desk.

He shared some good company in his quest for acting in Queensland, where he grew up.

“I knew Jack Thompson because, at that stage, he was living in Brisbane, and we were both in the same theatre company,” Hitchener says. “Jack, of course, was by far the better actor; he was amazing where I wasn’t that great.”

Ever humble, Hitchener must have been pretty good as he auditioned for acclaimed acting school National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) and got in.

Luckily for the media industry, he turned the offer down.

“When I got into NIDA, I was working at the ABC at the time doing some voice-overs for radio and television plays,” Hitchener says.

“I told one of the producers and he said I would be a much better broadcaster and acting was a tough caper and he let me down lightly, so I didn’t go.”

Eventually Hitchener ended up reading the news for ABC in Brisbane and one day in 1973 he got a call from Channel 9 for an audition. His ABC friends at the time told him “he would be sorry” to make the move, but 50 years on, that sliding

door moment obviously led to the right decision.

Hitchener hosted a short-lived game show called Gambit, before finding his way down to Melbourne in 1974 and the famous Channel 9 studios in Bendigo Street, Richmond. He has been at Channel 9 in Melbourne ever since.

The biggest thing he has witnessed in those 50 years is the changing of technology and the advances that has brought.

“It was black and white when I first started at Channel 9 and I can remember when we had our first colourised news service in the 1970s,” he says. “It was so exciting.

“We also shot our stories on 16-millimetre film and they had to be processed, but now you can cross to the world at a moment’s notice.

“But while the technology has changed dramatically, what we are doing really hasn’t, and that is letting people know what is going on.”

Hitchener’s love of news started when he was a boy growing up in rural south-east Queensland in a town called Texas, he explains.

“In those days we didn’t have television, and the only radio you could get was the ABC,” he says.

“We got newspapers two days late but I devoured them, so I grew up consuming a lot of news.”

Hitchener says one of the best things about being at Nine is the support and friendship of his longterm on-air colleagues, including Tony Jones, Livinia Nixon, and news directors over the years, including current boss Hugh Nailon.

Channel 9 will acknowledge Hitchener’s incredible 50 years with an event this year in his honour. ●

Nine is a majority owner of Domain.

JAMES PROMNITZ

Hitchener in 1975.

COVER STORY

Samantha Armytage is back as host of Farmer Wants a Wife.

From Sunrise to country Cupid

When former Sunrise breakfast show personality Samantha Armytage said yes to hosting a new season of Farmer Wants a Wife, it was quite simply a case of life imitating art. Yes, she found love and married a retired farmer, Richard Lavender, in 2020, and now she’s playing Cupid in the reality TV show that’s all about finding love in a haystack.

“I wasn’t quite sure if I wanted to do reality TV because I spent 25 years working as a journo,” Armytage says. “But I thought, it’s a show that suits me down to the ground. It’s sweet, fun and cute. It’s a nice break in my career to try something different and to have a go at prime time and step away from that news cycle that I worked in for many years.”

Fundamentally, Farmer Wants a Wife is about storytelling – the icing on the cake for Armytage.

“Yes, it’s a love show, but I introduce and tell the story about these five blokes and the ladies and play Cupid while telling stories,” she says. “I really enjoyed getting to know them.”

Armytage brings a little know-how of farm life to the show, too – she grew up on a farm and her

farmers and can also dip into the shoes of the ladies on the show.”

She has spent the past few years focusing on her mental health and wellbeing and is grateful for quality time spent with her husband in the countryside since leaving Sunrise in March 2021. She has no regrets stepping away from morning TV.

“I am incredibly proud of my time at Sunrise, and when I occasionally do think back to the people I interviewed and the adventures we had on the show, I look at it all fondly,” Armytage says.

“But like everything in life, when you are not enjoying something, you should change it up because life is too short.

“I am very proud of the fact that, when I had enough, I got out of there.

“That was brave. We all have egos, but mine wasn’t as crazy as some! I needed a break and I had a lovely couple of years enjoying being married and doing my podcast with Stellar, and now I am back at Channel 7,” she says.

Armytage still commutes to Sydney when required for work – it helps she has an apartment

With more time spent at home over the past few years, Armytage has found her love of gardening –a hobby she picked up thanks to her late mother, Libby, who was a devoted gardener. Libby died suddenly in 2021 from heart failure; turning the Armytage world upside down. Her father had a stroke soon after, which prompted the sale of the family home and his move to Wagga Wagga.

“I had my priorities thrust before me pretty sharply when Mum died, and I chose to put myself in a situation where I was happy, healthy and calm to deal with it all,” Armytage says.

“I feel Mum around me most days.”

She says she and her mum had a one-to-one book club together and that they were very alike.

“We had a similar sense of humour and she was no-nonsense like I am,” Armytage says. “She didn’t tolerate idiots and I can hear her laughing in the background at some of the situations I find myself in. In marriage, I see a lot of Mum in some of the things and ways I react, myself.

“I am like Mum and I now understand why she was like that with Dad. I miss her terribly. She was a magnificent gardener and I definitely inherited my love of [gardening] from her.”

Aside from spending time in nature, Armytage has just completed an interior decorating course and won’t rule out moving into homewares one day.

SAMANTHA ARMYTAGE

father, Mac, was a farmer. She now lives on a rural property in the NSW Southern Highlands.

“I grew up near Cooma, so I know the country very well,” she says.

“My father was a farmer and my brother Charlie is a farmer, and I am married to a retired farmer. I know these towns that we cover on the show well. I also know men just like the ones on the show.

“And yes, it’s true, farmers aren’t the greatest communicators and don’t talk,” Armytage adds. “I can be a nice conduit between the viewers and the

there, too – and binges on podcasts such as Shameless on the long drive. She’s finished up her podcast Something to Talk About with Stellar magazine, but continues as a columnist.

She is, however, working on a new podcast.

“Doing 44 episodes for Stellar in two years was fantastic,” Armytage says.

“I really got to fulfil that side of me that loves telling long-form stories. My dream is to be able to do so just like Richard Fidler does on ABC Conversations,” she adds.

Words JANE ROCCA ● Photo JEREMY GREIVE

“That’s my third love,” she says. “I am exploring my creative side again, which got a bit squashed for many years with journalism, but I am loving the aesthetics and beauty of decorating my home.”

Armytage released her book, Shine, in 2014, and is now considering a second.

“I am sure there is another book in me,” she says. “But I don’t feel I am mature enough to do that just yet. I would be nervous and am in awe of people who do.

“I interviewed author Bonnie Garmus, who wrote Lessons in Chemistry, for my podcast – and she wrote her first novel at 64. That’s inspiring.” ●

FARMER WANTS A WIFE \ On 7 and 7 Plus .

“Yes, it’s a love show, but I introduce and tell the story about these five blokes and the ladies.”

Luxury accommodation with culture at its heart.

Words KIM WILSON

Welcome to the art hotel

Aseries of striking and moody portraits by internationally recognised photographer Mohammadreza Rezania greets guests in the lobby of The Motley Hotel, a unique new boutique destination in Richmond.

They are juxtaposed with a bold, playful and larger-than-life tiger created by Melbourne-based illustrator and muralist Justine McAllister, in an eclectic mix of contemporary art that features throughout the hotel.

Rachael Brady, the chief executive of the hotel’s owner, Amber Property Group, says the $350,000 collection was chosen in collaboration with interior designers and hotel partners to reflect the area and attract designconscious customers.

“Incorporating art was extremely important based on the brand … of the hotel; ‘The Motley’ means a collection of people and things coming together,” she says.

“We want to showcase designers, both local and international, and draw fashion and art enthusiasts.”

The Motley is just one of several boutique hotels with art at the heart of their design aesthetic and culture.

Ink Hotel in Southbank is inspired by the CBD’s bright and eclectic street-art scene.

Manager Hannah Graham says the hotel’s lobby artwork was specially created by Blender Studio, while the guest rooms have walls adorned with custom art by New York-based Australian artist Brolga.

“If you walk around, our hotel is speaking to you through the art,” she says.

“Brimming with energy and bursting with flair, it shows we’re not afraid to be a little different so long as it makes people laugh and we all have a good time along the way.

“We even have original artwork on the T-shirts and hoodies that our team wear as their uniform.”

Art is also a fundamental element of the new Hotel Vera in Ballarat, says co-owner Martin Shew.

“The narrative of art and design were integral to the success of the project,” he says.

“We wanted to share the stories of the region and its architecture but also Australia, and art was integral in telling these stories.”

Comprising seven individualised suites, Hotel Vera combines carefully

curated interiors with eye-catching paintings, artworks and ceramics from local artists.

“In the hotel’s reception area, we have a wonderful piece by Locus Jones called Lockdown Zealots,” Shew says.

“This powerful piece narrates the story of the pandemic. We saw this piece as a celebration of our own

tenacity in the face of so many hurdles and challenges.”

He says the Chicago Room in the restaurant Underbar contains a thought-provoking piece by Heather B. Swann called Cheaper Labour

“This piece focuses on the vulnerabilities and exploitation of women working in early textile factories,” Shew adds.

The Larwill in Parkville, which draws its inspiration from figurative expressionist artist David Larwill’s childlike freshness, is one of four Art Series Hotels in Melbourne.

AccorHotels general manager apartments and realty Fatima Leota says the boutique accommodation is infused with Larwell’s personality.

“The multifaceted art-inspired experience is complete with dedicated in-room art channels, art libraries, art tours and art utensils on supply,” Leota says. ●

DAVID CHATFIELD INK HOTEL

ART SERIES LARWILL HOTEL

THE MOTLEY HOTEL

New York Times best-selling author and motivational life coach Gabby Bernstein hit rock bottom in her 20s before she started writing self-help books.

She’s since released nine motivational life guides, and tours the world sharing the power of manifestation and healing – teaching others how to let go of the inner negative voice that is holding them back.

The 43-year-old married mother-of-one, who lives in New York’s West Village and has an upstate country home, returns to Melbourne this month for a workshop aimed at helping punters “to manifest a life beyond their wildest dreams”.

Traumatic relationships in her 20s led to Bernstein spiralling out of control, using drugs and alcohol to medicate what she couldn’t face within.

“I would be in a bad relationship and when it didn’t work out, I didn’t know how to deal with it without being destructive,” she says.

Life took a happier turn when Bernstein met her husband, Zach Rocklin, at Soho House in New York in 2007. He has since quit his job to help her run her successful and growing business. They have a four-year-old son, Oliver.

“I was the one who got myself sober; I didn’t know my husband prior to this time,” Bernstein says. “I was the one who picked myself up and took myself to a 12-step program meeting.

“In the early recovery, it was the people in the program that got me sober, but the change always begins with a decision you make yourself.”

She says her close Australian friends are part of the reason she keeps coming back to our shores.

Author Gabby Bernstein channels her painful past into self-help guides.

Words JANE ROCCA

Alife transformed

Artist Micaela Ezra and fashion designer Camilla Franks are like her sisters, with a mutual love of meditation and shared friendship circles.

“I am truly blessed to have friends like Micaela Ezra in my life, too,” Bernstein says.

“I met Camilla Franks when she was showing her collections in New York. She used to dress me and I often hosted meditations at her events.”

Bernstein also considered American author Dr Wayne Dyer, who died in 2015, a close friend.

“Wayne was a mentor and friend,” she says. “I originally reached out to him with my first book and asked if he could read it.

“He sent me a handwritten letter, and when on stage doing a talk, he picked up my book and started speaking about a young author – that was me!

“He passed it to a young woman in the audience. That was a pretty epic moment for me for sure.”

Childhood trauma came back to Bernstein when she was a 36-year-old happily married woman; a time, she says, when she was ready to face the uncomfortable past.

“That is often what happens to sexual assault survivors; the painful memories are blocked until you feel safe enough to have them come back and

start healing,” she says. “I wasn’t afraid to run from it; I was ready to move forward with it.”

Bernstein says her hippie mother inspired her to ask questions and seek more of her spiritual self –they would attend ashrams together in her youth.

“My mum has always been a seeker and still is. She is a hippie at heart and still leans into that level of thinking,” she says.

“She is an entrepreneur and continues to inspire what I do every day.”

These days Bernstein manages her anxiety with affirmations, meditations and writing self-help books – the latest, Happy Days: The Guided Path from Trauma to Profound Freedom and Inner Peace, was released early last year. ●

GABBY BERNSTEIN \ April 29 workshop, Melbourne Town Hall ● eventbrite.com.au

FEATURE HOUSE

This c1930s house has been freshly renovated to the highest standards of contemporary living while retaining all of the Edwardian charm of the original property.

The result is an ideal lifestyle opportunity for young professionals, small families or downsizing retirees who are looking for period charm matched with contemporary livability, and all in a desirable Kew location.

Freshly landscaped gardens provide a lovely setting for this property, which has oak parquetry floors flowing throughout the downstairs hallway. The two downstairs bedrooms greet you at the front of the house, and one of the bedrooms hosts a delightful fireplace and en suite, which is accessible through a walk-in wardrobe.

Past the central bathroom, you’ll find the open living-dining area and modern kitchen. The kitchen has a Gaggenau stove, oven, steam oven and dishwasher and two integrated fridge-freezers.

A floor-to-ceiling glass wall and sliding door connect this part of the house with the paved courtyard garden, with a built-in gas barbecue for al fresco entertaining. The light, modern feel of this rear zone makes it perfect for both entertaining and relaxed family living in an environment that promotes serenity.

Back inside, you’ll find the large main bedroom upstairs. It hosts a walk-in wardrobe and en suite under vaulted ceilings. The office up here is great for working from home, and can also double as a parents’ retreat.

Other features throughout the house include plantation shutters, a rear right of way, and marble tiling and benchtops. The property is secure thanks to a video intercom and off-street parking.

This is a quiet neighbourhood that’s particularly leafy thanks to the street’s many silver birch trees. The house is close to Kew Junction and Glenferrie Road’s shops, cafes and restaurants. It’s also just a hop, skip and a jump away from all the heavy hitters of Kew’s independent school precinct, which are within walking distance.

Local parks and reserves offer pockets of greenery to admire on weekend neighbourhood strolls, and the 16 and 109 trams can easily whisk you across the city. ●

ANDERS FURZE

property@domain.com.au

Agent: Marshall White, Nick Ptak 0413 370 442

Price: $2.1 million-$2.3 million

Auction: 10.30am, April 29

FINAL WORD

“WORLD-CLASS FINISHES AND DESIGN THAT OFFERS FLEXIBILITY FOR BOTH DOWNSIZERS AND YOUNG FAMILIES WANTING TO MOVE INTO A FULLY RENOVATED HOME.” NICK PTAK – AGENT

Hover your camera over the code to see Domain listings in Kew

On prestigious Scotch Hill, across from Fairview Park, which sits beside the Yarra, this “adapted colonial” was designed by Melbourne architects Reid and Pearson. They “specially copyrighted the design”, according to the cover story which Australian Home Beautiful ran in 1938. The magazine noted the extensive lawns –“tree studded by and by” – and the wishing well, and rightly predicted that the “real garden will develop in privacy”. The doublestorey home, which sits on about 1323

square metres, now has leafy views from every window. While the four-bedroom home – with separate living zones and study, plus a pool – offers immediate comfort, it also has renovation potential or even the chance to build new (STCA). ●

JOANNE BROOKFIELD

Agent: Abercrombys, Sam Goddard 0448 870 454

Price: $5.91 million-$6.501 million

Private sale

TOORAK \ PENTHOUSE, 700 ORRONG ROAD

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This whole-floor penthouse offers its lucky residents sweeping views, an exclusive rooftop terrace and luxury living mere metres away from Toorak Village. One of only five apartments in a boutique building, the interiors include timber, stone and marble finishes and lots of natural light thanks to floor-to-ceiling windows. The kitchen has a fitted butler’s pantry, the main bedroom’s sliding door leads to the terrace and there’s even a marble en suite

with double vanity, shower and bath. A private lift whisks you to and from the secure car park, and those terrace views extend from the spire of St John’s church through to the glittering CBD skyline. ●

ANDERS FURZE

Agent: Kay & Burton, Peter Kudelka 0418 319 439

Price: $5.9 million-$6.3 million

Private sale

SOUTH YARRA \ PENTHOUSE, 9/45 MARNE

One of only nine apartments, this “spacious penthouse apartment is built to a standard rarely matched, set in a position as rarely offered – the jewel of Melbourne’s crown, the Domain Precinct,” says agent James Paull of this tightly held boutique development, designed by Powell and Glenn Architects. Lombard & Jack designers are responsible for the interiors, which include Venetian plaster walls and ultra-wide oak floors in the

open-plan living zone. This is overlooked by a monochromatic kitchen, which has a marble island and splashback and is appointed with Gaggenau and Miele appliances, including an integrated fridgefreezer. There’s also a private balcony, fitted study, powder room, laundry and storage cage. ●

SOUTH YARRA \ 23 BALMORAL PLACE

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JOANNE BROOKFIELD

Agent: Marshall White, James Paull 0430 338 348

Price: $3.4 million

Expressions of interest: Close 5pm, April 24

Mirrored glass walls create a striking effect on the downstairs bathroom exterior, one of many stylish design choices within this renovated luxury townhouse. Floating stairs serve the three levels, including two floors of accommodation. The ground-floor bedrooms share access to a courtyard and, on the top floor, the main suite has two dressing rooms, and the final bedroom has a balcony with city views. In between is a communal level, which includes a

north-facing balcony off the living room, a fitted study and a separate dining area, plus a new gourmet kitchen. The security is “top-notch” in this high-tech home, says agent Jamie Mi. “Nearly everything can be remote-controlled, including alarm, camera, garage door. It has fingerprint door panels as well.” ●

JOANNE BROOKFIELD

Agent: Kay & Burton, Jamie Mi 0450 125 355

Price: $2.6 million-$2.86 million

Expressions of interest

Offering peace and beauty in the heart of Brighton, FiftyTwo Black is a collaboration of worldrenowned designers including Nicholas Day and Jack Merlo, with New York’s Gregory Tuck and Meg Sharpe. With graciously house-like proportions, this unique collaboration has been designed with a private and elevated lifestyle in mind. RH branded furnished residences, the first in Australia. Only one available, enquire now to move in within 4 weeks.

CONTACT

Alex Bragilevsky 0478 401 247 | Kelgend Winters 0439 434 449

www.fiftytwoblack.com.au

World-Class Sub Penthouse at Saint Moritz by Gurner

Proudly at the very pinnacle of waterfront lifestyle excellence, this grandly proportioned, 3 bedroom, 'Saint Moritz' sub-penthouse residence frames a picture-perfect panorama from the 6th floor of the Fender Katsalidis designed 'Grand Esplanade' building. Directly opposite the sands of St Kilda's famous beach and with views that span down the Peninsula and across the waters to Williamstown, this is a brand new home without any rivals and destined to become an icon of Melbourne.

601G/14-16

The Esplanade St Kilda

Open for Inspection

Thursday 5.00 - 5.30pm

Saturday 1.00 - 1.30pm

Michael Paproth 0488 300 800 michaelpaproth@theagency.com.au

ROCHESTER TERRACE C1868

• Directly opposite St Vincent Gardens whilst walking distance to all of Albert Park’s amenities

• Double garage parking via Bevan St

• Awe-inspiring right from the bluestone threshold, the residence retains soaring 3.5m ceilings with decorative plaster work, the typical Victorian arch and original master joinery

• Spectacular main bedroom with park, city and sunset aspects

P o r t M e l b o u r n e 49/15 beach Street

A Wealth of Lifestyle with Bay Glimpses

• Once in a lifetime chance to create your statement home (STCA)

• Currently in an easy to enjoy condition with updated kitchen and bathroom, twin living rooms, office and hydronic heating for modern comfort

In an exclusive lifestyle address with resort-style amenities, this exciting 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom town residence is your independent slice of beachside bliss with bay glimpses. Enjoying its own private entrance on Dow Street with a paved alfresco courtyard, this urban residence features 2 quality ground floor bedroom suites and an upstairs entertaining zone with a spacious classic kitchen (Bosch dishwasher) centered around the fabulous living and dining areas Indulge in the holiday atmosphere with use of the tennis court, swimming pool, gymnasium and sauna, while being comforted by reverse cycle air conditioning and secure undercover parking (2) Ultimate position, between Bay Street and the beach.

Note: Potential for 3rd level extension (Subject to Council Approval)

• Highly sought after bay views

• Private entry via Dow Street

• Amenities – pool, tennis court, gym

• Potential for upstairs extension (STCA)

• A heartbeat to the Bay Street café scene

Auction: Saturday 6th May 12.00pm

Guide: $1,100,000 - $1,175,000

Contact: Jon Kett 0415 853 564 Mel Fredricksen 0497 942 933

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CARPETS/CURTAINS

Harkness Interiors (inc Thomas Okeeffe)

Wool carpet specialists. For all your needs for carpet, shutters, blinds, curtains and timber and hybrid flooring. Quality products with quality workmanship.

Contact: 9830 4172 www.harknessinteriors.com.au

ELECTRICAL SERVICES

J.L Hutt Electrical Specialising in all electrical installations: Extensions/ Refurbishments, Stove/Oven/Hot Water Repair, Switchboard upgrades, House Rewires, TV/Phone/Data, Safety switches. Free quotes. 24 hour service. Lic 17824.

Contact: Jason 0411 300 772. www.jlhuttelectrical.com.au

CARPETS/CURTAINS

FENCING

Websters Fencing Building quality fences in Stonnington and Booroondara since 1982. Websters fencing provides a tailored and reliable service, with the experience to ensure quality and longevity of your fence. We specialise in boundary fencing. Please call Les Webster between 7am and 7pm for a quote.

Contact: 0417 356 608

RESTAURANT

Moti Mahal Tandoori Indian Restaurant

We specialize in regional, North Indian and Tandoori dishes. Serving Malvern for 38 years! We cater for all occasions. Group bookings welcome.

230 Glenferrie Road, Malvern

Bring in this ad for a 10% discount.

Contact: 9509 2931

www.motimahalrestaurant.com.au

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