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openly about sexist and offensive language being the start of the contempt that can lead to abuse. His intolerance of jokes and insults, of possessive and controlling behaviour, of abuse dressed up as male pride is a clarion call of honesty and courage. That it comes from a copper makes it impossible to ignore.

At a White Ribbon Day event that I was part of a couple of years ago, former Victorian deputy police commissioner Graham Ashton included the audience in a shocking experiment. On the morning of the lunch, he had pulled at random a 24-hour sheet of police attendances. No filter, no screening. Near the top, was a police callout to a home where a woman had been beaten by her partner. She was pregnant and her belly had been so severely squeezed that the life of the foetus was in doubt. The man was known to police.

Ashton’s point was that in any 24-hour period in Melbourne, police will attend an incident of family violence: imagine the number that go unreported.

In my mind I’ve given a silent Australia Day award to all police officers in all states who take this issue seriously, who see these assaults as indefensible as any other, who refuse to look the other way. They don’t need a knighthood: they honour us all with their work. \

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o one will ever know how she did it, how she watch the uncontrolled rage of those racquet smashes still does it. How, just hours after her precious without flinching. I wondered out loud whether on the son was brutally murdered in plain sight by her morning we celebrate the strength and grace of the raging former husband, Rosie Batty dragged herself extraordinary Rosie Batty, we shouldn’t be too blithe, to her feet, stepped out blinking into the lights of the too amused by the uncontrolled rage we see at the world’s media and told the truth about the lives of fear tennis. The behaviour that people like Batty want to and pain in which so many Australian women and change is on a continuum, from apparently anodyne children live. sexist jokes up to unspeakable family violence. As I admire Rosie Batty so much, even as I grieve a society dealing with epidemic levels of family for her every time I see her sweet, smiling face. violence, we can’t afford to be amused by It takes something even more than courage to it anymore. we can’t make your son’s death your life’s work.

I should have been utterly unsurprised It was a great morning, this Australia Day, afford to be when a gaggle of social-media nutters blew the to see the accomplished and civic-minded tin-foil hats right off their heads at the utterly amused women who were made Australians of the unsurprising observation. (Some of them even year: a modern portrait of commitment and had a meltdown at the use of the term “male duty democratic enough for all Australians. violence”. Yes, we really have that far to go.)

So it felt strangely uncomfortable that morning to Fellas, if you don’t understand that uncontrolled also join in the laughing and shoulder-shrugging that aggression – from abusing an umpire at a kids’ footy inevitably accompanies discussion of the all too familiar game to something much worse – is a threat to society antics of high-profile male sportsmen. The tennis was at all points, then you haven’t been listening to a word on, the tantrums were at full volume, the racquets were Rosie Batty has been saying. Or to what the former being smashed into the ground with such force one Victorian police commissioner, Ken Lay, has been player even split his carbon-fibre number right down the saying either. middle. It was pretty shocking behaviour. For a game.

The brave and forthright Lay is one of the few The many female victims of male violence to whom I high-profile men prepared to call us to account for have spoken over the years would not have been able to where violence against women all begins: he speaks

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ANDREW McUTCHEN meets the hidden side of Guy Pearce

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uy Pearce does not like the metaphor. Not one bit. It is proposed, as a very first conversation point in an hour-long face-to-face interview, that, for successful artists who have two strong outlets for their talent, one invariably becomes the “wife”, a daily commitment, and the other becomes the “mistress”, a shadowy, less visible obsession that tends to titillate but never gets the spotlight.

Once the roles are set, through a lucky break or more talent for one than the other, they can quickly self-perpetuate. In Pearce’s case, he “could have gone into music or acting” from his early teenage years when he was working at the arts centre in Geelong and spending his money on keyboards and four-track recorders.

Pearce objects to the mistress and wife metaphor when it’s applied to his music and his acting career for two reasons: one, “It doesn’t bode very well for your relationships,” and Pearce is more likely to know than most; he’s been married to psychologist wife Kate Mestitz for 18 years. He refers to her fondly and often.

And two, because he’s never put one necessarily ahead of the other: “I have an equally long and committed music career. The difference is it’s just not been public.”

“I don’t think I ever felt that one was more of a commitment than the other to be honest,” Pearce says.

“I’ve never stopped writing and making music from right back to 1980. I think it was just about opportunities that came up as an actor. They just meant I went in that direction.”

So, according to the now-rejected, and never-to-bementioned-again metaphor, Pearce has two wives. One we all know very well, and another he’s been married to for just as long that he’d like you to meet. The songwriting Guy. The singing Guy. At this point, Pearce knows you are rolling your eyes. “Not another actor forcing their music on you, right?” Which is why, rather than heap praise, faint or ferocious, upon his first album to convince you otherwise, I – well, in fact, we – advise that you do something unorthodox. Get up, right now, flip open your laptop or unlock your smartphone and Google “Guy Pearce, Storm song”. Make sure it’s in earshot, preferably quite loud, and then keep reading.

A little bouncy bass-line locked in with a percussive backbeat. Nice. Some nuanced atmospherics. And then a breathy, frankly sexy voice that recalls a male Norah Jones in the verse swooping up to a falsetto chorus with cooing harmonies that would not be out of place on a Gotye single.

No matter what music you’re into, you’ll have to agree, it’s a good song. It asks for no special consideration, it’s just a catchy, well-produced little number by a Guy you probably didn’t know existed. The respect deepens with a closer listen to Pearce’s carefully constructed debut album, Broken Bones.

“No dogs to walk, no family to visit”. But it was always done somewhat in secret. Which begs the question; who else is in this secret songwriter society? Who is the best actor slash songwriter too self-conscious to “come out”? “Rob Pattinson,” Pearce says, naming the Twilight megastar he recently acted alongside in The Rover Rover.

“He’s got an amazing voice and his songs are really contemporary.”

The rationale that, like Pattinson’s songwriting, his was a hidden passion and the concealment was for the best, became a story he told himself and others.

“I also like it better when I don’t know anything about the personal lives of actors on screen,” Pearce says, reinforcing recent comments by (ahem, actor-cum-guitarist) Johnny Depp, urging actors to keep their music to themselves.

“Unless you’re Daniel Day Lewis or Meryl Streep, finding out about the real lives of actors colours your view of them.”

Most people around him accepted this narrative, which embedded it. But one man did not. Enter Michael Barker, who Pearce worked with on the musical Poor Boy in 2009.

He heard Pearce sing and perform. He asked what Pearce was doing with his own music. Pearce recited his lines, including the now well-worn “no one wants to hear another actor do music”. Barker did not truck with Pearce’s logic.

“He said to me, ‘Do you realise the damage you’re doing to yourself by not releasing it?’ He told me I was operating on an old fear. He told me he thinks the songs are f---ing

“I have an equally long & committed music career … it’s just not been public” – guy pearce on his new album Opener Overflow is a widescreen opus with full Madonna Like a Prayer-style choir section that Pearce “can’t sing without crying”.

Why then, did it take Pearce this long to “go public”, as he puts it? Having heard the entire story now, it’s fair to say that the blame lies with Jason Donovan and dates back to Pearce’s days on Neighbours (he played heart throb Mike Young), which, horrifyingly for many of us, celebrates its 30-year anniversary this year.

“I can’t remember exactly when, but it was during the storyline of Kylie [Minogue] singing Locomotion and then Mushroom records giving her a deal and her taking off with British hit factory Pete Waterman Limited (PWL) and then Jason got a contract with EMI,” Pearce says.

“He told me about it and I was like, what? This is fantastic!

EMI! I mean, Kate Bush is with EMI, this is incredible!

I never really had any envious feelings myself, I was just thinking, ‘This is fantastic’.

“As it turned out, Jason did nothing with EMI and then he signed with PWL. He said, ‘Oh, it’s going to be so much easier because they’re going to write all the songs’. And part of me thought … oh, how weird, that idea of other people writing songs with you, because there I was, always writing songs everyday at home by myself.”

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eeing the stratospheric rise of his colleagues Minogue and Donovan up the charts, here and in Britain, awed Pearce, but did little to change his course towards music at that time: “There was no lure at all. I had absolutely no interest in doing that because I was into Cocteau Twins and Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel. But when I would talk about making music in my Neighbours interviews you could see the journalists going ‘Oh God, not another Neighbour releasing a single’. This whole idea of a brick wall faced me.”

Pearce decided he would make music privately. He would take his guitar to his film shoots but he would get it into his trailer by stealth.

“I’d try to sneak it in so nobody would see me. If they did, they’d all say, ‘Oh, he’s going to play at lunchtime’. I’ve let so many people down over the years on set because I don’t really play other people’s songs. I’ll be like, ‘Here’s a weird song I wrote in 1982!’.”

Pearce found film shoots the perfect place to write songs:

great and he said we should get a band together and record them. Within a few sentences it was all gone.” The brick wall was demolished.

On the other side lay Broken Bones. Is it a “greatest hits” of all his unheard songs? “I’d hate to think of it as that,” Pearce says.

“That would mean everything else that didn’t get chosen can never be used because it’s not as good. These were songs that worked well together on an emotional level – that’s what dictated the song choices.”

Meanwhile, back in Hollywood, the Pearce train steams on. In the past few years he has appeared in blockbusters such as Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, The Hurt Locker, The King’s Speech and Iron Man 3.

Among the attention-getting flicks are lesser-known performances, including his turn as Andy Warhol in Factory Girl, which he says others have described as “the best performance of Andy Warhol ever and the worst Andy movie ever”. We both laugh loud and long. Such a waste!

“I know! Such a waste.”

“There’s a quote by [Sir John] Gielgud that James Frey told me during the filming of The Count of Monte Cristo,” Pearce says, “which goes something like this …” Pearce flips into character, elevating him from just a guy I’m having coffee with on Greville Street to the Guy, a fêted actor on the world stage. “‘You can be good in a good movie, you can be good in a bad movie, you can be bad in a bad movie, but never be bad in a good movie.’ That’s absolutely true.”

In the good, maybe great, movie of Pearce’s stellar life as a proud Australian-based actor, we now have a second way to access him, aside from on the screen. We can do it through music that is well and truly out in the open: “It’s just great everyone knows that I make music now,” Pearce says, and he means it.

“Now I can just get on with it and it won’t be a big deal. I mean, it’s still a little bit of a thing because it’s so new, but it means I can now go and make a second and third record.” \ amcutchen@theweeklyreview.com.au » Pearce will perform live with Powderfinger’s Darren Middleton at the Thornbury Theatre on February 7 (www.thethornburytheatre.com) .

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THAT CHANGED THIS GUY’S LIFE Across the Universe \ The Beatles “My mum had a couple of Beatles records and I just listened to them obsessively when I was a kid. So she bought me the Beatles box set on vinyl and it just changed my life. It’s difficult to pick a song because I suddenly had 12 albums to swim around in.”

Under Ivy \ Kate Bush “It was the B-side to Running Up the Hill and it really was an incredibly moving kind of experience for me. It’s just her and the piano. But is it any more moving than Houdini off The Dreaming album?

I don’t know. Choosing between Kate Bush songs is painful.”

The Way Young Lovers Do \ Jeff Buckley (Live at Sin-é) “To hear him do that on the Telecaster [an electric guitar made by Fender] at Sin-é [a café in New York] … I just couldn’t believe it. I could not believe that scatting and sounding like a trumpet. It just blew me away.”

The Maker \ Daniel Lanois “Acadie Acadie is an incredible album. He came out and played a couple of times at our place in Hepburn Springs. I’m just as in awe of the production of his songs as the song itself.”

The Boatman’s Call \ Nick Cave “Kate and I had been married about a year and we were in Prague in 1998. We just played the album over and over. It’s such a beautiful album to go back to. I couldn’t pick a single song from it; the album as a work is perfect in its whole form.”

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MY Y VIEW \ LIFE’S (FINALLY) A BEACH FOR KATRINA HALL

cooling off in over-air-conditioned professional suites in the middle of what looked like a building site but could just be what hospitals look like all the time. Thankfully, I wouldn’t know.

After a while we all knew each other, the bringers-in and those being brought to, but we could only just manage hello,

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good morning. Mum said you can’t ask anyone, ‘How are you feeling?’ while they’re being treated for cancer, because everyone knows what the answer is already. Pretty damn ordinary, thanks.

And while my new friends held on to their Zimmer frames, and to life itself, everyone else was holding up new boogie boards or beer or showing off their painted toenails. Some of my new friends carried their newspapers into therapy inside plastic bags because even paper felt heavy and burdensome, and magazines full of superfood recipes and weight-loss tips are generally the only other reading material you can find at a hospital – there, one assumes, to spur on those so sick they can barely manage a piece of toast and a cup of Sustagen.

Meantime, the rest of the world was feasting on Christmas leftovers and barbecues, and sucking up all the great stuff summer Australia offers. I want to say it was making me sick, but I can’t.

When it was all over, we also took off for a few days at the beach. Not mum, though, because she was too sick, but the husband and kids and I, and it was overcast of course, and the water was freezing, but there was one whole day when the sun shone from morning to night and we stayed at the beach all day, eating ham and salad rolls, arriving home with chaffed thighs and sandy butts to have fish and chips for dinner.

It was so good in the life-affirming, recalibrating way a day on the beach is. And now we can start the year afresh.

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Every day for four weeks in December and January, my mum needed to be taken to hospital for radiotherapy. My brother and I took turns because hospitals are such magnificent places to hang around, said no one ever except maybe parking inspectors and people visiting new babies.

So there I was, in the full bling of summer, trapped inside a public hospital without caffeine because everyone is on holiday, even the café people, and I’m watching the rest of the world at the beach.

Good for some I thought, which wasn’t the most generous response to seeing other people eating crayfish in the sunset and clinking champagne glasses across a pristine blue sea.

A more rational human might have decided not to look at Facebook at all under the circumstances. But, just like that friend I can’t bring myself to unfriend even though I am constantly annoyed at her daily chatter about lame television shows and George Clooney, it is sometimes hard to let go of the thing that simultaneously amuses and infuriates. Facebook is my daily self-inflicted pain, my Munchausen Syndrome by Smartphone.

So I kept looking, kept sulking, kept pressing the “like” button through gritted teeth while mum and I, the magnificent nurses and my new friends the elderly and frail spent summer

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Gijsbers worked in bars and cafés in the The pour-over eastern suburbs before, during and after brew arrives in studying mathematics. He and a high a glass beaker wearing a cardboard school buddy ran Station Street label announcing it’s a washed Café in Nunawading for four try a buildEthiopian Yirgacheffe from the years and, after taking a year Wote Konga region. The lovingly off, he opened From On High in your-ownprepared nectar is reminiscent of Prahran just over 12 months ago. breakfast blueberries that mellow to include Three-month-old Hard Pressed flavours of dried apricots as it was an opportunity to indulge cools. Ngoc Autran says she’d drink in his love of alternative brewing pour-over brews like this all day long if methods and another chance to name a she could. café after an idiom. Recycled materials were Autran joined the coffee-crafting team at used where possible in the renovation of Hard Pressed about three months ago and the former restaurant space. It was Gijsbers’ says it’s her dream job. She dabbled with concept given life by interior design studio interior design after finishing school and Mimi-Myrtle + Co of Spotswood and worked at The Reading Room at VicUni in builder Callum Wallace.

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Riesling is Australia’s most cellared white wine – its racy, refreshing citrus acidity sets it up to age gracefully – but more people reach for a glass of sav blanc or pinot grigio over a fresh, young riesling on a hot day.

It’s dry riesling all the way for me when the temperature soars and, the colder it’s served, the better. I’ve even been known to make icy poles out of riesling. But there’s a trade-off when riesling is served so cold because the wine’s beautiful, floral aromas and fragrance are sacrificed for icy refreshment.

Riesling is a noble grape and has a terrific ability to display its sense of place and, as such, it tastes different all around Australia. Here’s a guide to what Australian riesling smells and tastes like.

South Australia’s Clare is broken up into two distinct areas – Watervale and Polish Hill River – and their rieslings are quite different.

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Eden Valley

Neighbouring the Barossa Valley in South Australia, riesling from the Eden’s south near the Adelaide Hills tends to contain lime and herbaceous characters.

Great Southern

A large area on Western Australia’s southern tip, Great Southern covers several sub-regions and is home to some established producers and an exciting new breed of winemakers. The fingerprint on the region’s riesling is lemon – as blossom, juice and zest form.

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Moving north, the wines develop floral aromas underpinned by zesty lime. Approaching the region’s northern tip, its riesling tends towards tropical fruits and pineapple.

Canberra

A range of soil types and aspects means the flavours vary widely in our capital’s riesling but Canberra’s high altitude – ranging from 550 metres to about 900 metres – gives the region loads of natural acidity. This makes for crisp, refreshing wines with purity of flavours.

Western Victoria

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Australia’s coldest. Vines at the southern end of the Grampians, around Henty and Drumborg, are planted over limestone, which gives the wines a fine gravelly minerality. Moving north to Great Western, where riesling was first planted by the Best family in the 1860s, the wines, grown on granite-based soils, are chalky and filled with citrus characters. They age well, too.

Tasmania

Riesling was one of the first grapes planted in Tasmania, although it’s pinot noir and chardonnay that now capture all the headlines. The vines that have survived – many have been grafted over to other varieties – now have some decent age to them and make some serious wines. Vibrant acidity and juicy lime flavours dominate.

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If you find yourself at a loose end this Sunday, head down to Peninsula at Docklands for Riesling Riot, the first event of the three-day festival Riesling Downunder.

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n a packed Tuesday night at L’HÔtel Gitan, Jacques Reymond’s ruffled grey eminence emerges from the kitchen and then melts swiftly into the crowd. Pity he doesn’t stick around – this place could use a hospitality pro like him to whip things into shape.

It’s no surprise to find Melbourne’s godfather of French cuisine at Prahran’s newest dining hotspot.

L’HÔtel Gitan is the latest venture by Reymond siblings Nathalie, Antoine and Edouard, aided by Jacques and his wife Kathy. They run the show while Jacques Reymond alumnus Adam Smith runs the kitchen.

The family has also collaborated on South Yarra’s Bistro Gitan, on the other side of Fawkner Park. With its convivial bar area, open fire and well-executed French and Spanish plates, Bistro Gitan attracted an immediate following. Locals took to it like a pair of comfy shoes.

Before that of course M.Reymond ran his eponymous restaurant for 26 years, maintaining superb standards and a three-hat status until the final service in December 2013.

Despite its DNA, L’HÔtel Gitan doesn’t have the same air of success about it. At least not yet. Service is unreliable, as is the menu (I hope never again to eat duck magret smeared with apple cider emulsion). And there are too many other mishaps occurring. On one visit they run out of oysters by 7.30 and the kitchen’s much-hyped rotisserie is “broken”. On another, staff are seriously overstretched and the wait between courses is embarrassing for all concerned.

It’s a shame it’s still a bit of a shambles because L’HÔtel Gitan is a beautiful place to be. It occupies the former Hotel Max on Commercial Road and is fresh from a deco-fabulous makeover that accentuates the building’s SEARED SCALLOP SALAD voluptuous bones and reveals a dining room oozing with old-school glamour.

An exposed kitchen, framed by burnished copper in a substantial batter – the sort your local chippie against a wall of striking geometric tiles, sits centre might do – to seal in juices, heat and the creature’s stage to divide the smart-casual bar area with its fleshy sweetness. high tables and low booths from the rear restaurant There’s also an unexpected triumph in a dish of where tables are clothed, floors are carpeted, and chic, smoked tomato and parsnip. Not something everyone funnel-shaped sconces cast a flattering soft light. will be rushing to order, but they should. As our waiter Both menus read solidly. The wine list assembles explains: “It seems simple, but there’s actually a lot respected labels and styles from across the of flavour.” old world and new according to who does The tomato is super sweet and heady with oozing what best – Barossa shiraz, Austrian smoke. It comes with half-spears of asparagus, with oldgrüner veltliner. a poached egg, salty Parmesan crisps and school On the food side, the mood is mainly parsnip purée for a base. I just want to keep glamour French and there are some sensations to diving back into the whole, delicious mess. be found. I’d nominate the croquettes – hot, But some staples of the French bistro golden potato puffs mined with Morteau, a songbook are less awe-inspiring. Seasoning is a sausage from Reymond’s home county near the Jura recurring issue.

Mountains. Apparently it’s smoked for a couple of House-made boudin noir and blanc are so bland days over conifer and juniper, which would explain they disappear from memory with the last mouthful. the stonkingly good eating. Hands down my favourite Steak tartare is served decoratively on a trio of lettuce croquette of the past 12 months (and I’ve eaten a few). cups, the meat roughly chopped and criminally I also like the fat plug of Moreton Bay bug deep fried underseasoned. I have no beef with the quality

of the meat but where are the basic condiments?

There’s a seared scallop salad featuring just two molluscs, salmon tartare, some kingfish that’s been ceviched (if that’s a verb) in passionfruit juice, guest appearances by radicchio, fennel and spinach but, again, not enough salt. It improves when you add your own.

I’ve already mentioned the confusing magret. Our dessert is a little confused too. It is a workman-like crème brûlée scented with ginger. And cinnamon.

And fennel seeds. And Szechuan pepper, bourbon and vanilla. There’s too much going on. In cuisine, as in fashion, it’s wise to follow Coco Chanel’s advice and take one thing off. The bourbon, perhaps.

L’HÔtel Gitan is underwhelming, which is disappointing because I really, really like Bistro Gitan. I don’t expect L’HÔtel G to be a carbon copy of its sibling, but it can definitely be better than it is right now. \ khill@theweeklyreview.com.au TO READ MORE REVIEWS

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INTERVIEW

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n accepting an AFI award in 2007 for his role in Romulus, My Father Father, Kodi Smit-McPhee gave a telling speech. “As a child actor I suppose I have to get used to it being all downhill from here,” said the then 10-year-old. “If that’s true I’d like to take this opportunity to thank a few people before I fade off into obscurity and the world of nightclub appearances and reality TV.” Of course, it slayed the crowd. This kid was talented and funny. Turns out a friend of his father’s wrote the words, but it showed that even though he was clearly on the first step of a huge career, Smit-McPhee possessed a line in self-deprecation and humour that, given the world he was entering, would be invaluable.

Eight years later, I’ve met Smit-McPhee in a South Melbourne café to talk about his part in Channel Nine’s blockbuster eight-part mini-series Gallipoli, which begins next week.

Now 18, he is tall, slim and quietly-spoken, a kid about to become a man, who can’t quite believe his luck and circumstances, doing what he loves. And despite having worked in the past five years with actors of the calibre of Gary Oldman, Ben Kingsley, Harvey Keitel, Michael Fassbender and Robert Duvall, he retains a teenager’s awe.

“It’s amazing,” he says. “I always act professionally on the outside but I’m always very star-struck on the inside.

and stepping out of Kodi and creating a different soul for someone else and jumping into that. People ask, how do I jump in and out so quickly – it’s the research my dad taught me to do.”

The movie was his big break. “It was kind of one of the most beautiful experiences of my life,” Smit-McPhee says. He met Gaita, on whose book it was based, at the wrap party.

“This was after living [Raimond’s] whole childhood.

As soon as I saw him we both broke down and cried and hugged. Didn’t really talk that much.”

Smit-McPhee has come a long way since then. At 12 he went to live in Los Angeles, initially just with his father. “I went over there, my family wasn’t there; I had all my friends here. It was basically a new life. I felt a little uncomfortable. It was a holiday and it was fun, it was that feeling, but I was like, ‘Man, is this home now?’

“Eventually I really felt comfortable there and sought all the opportunity and creativity they have there. It’s a good vibe for what I want to do with my future.”

A year later his mother, sister and younger brother joined them in LA. Smit-McPhee went to school in the US and also had tutors. He pursued acting while doing other regular kid stuff such as skateboarding and riding his bike. He also loved photography and writing poetry.

“I write very cool poems that will make you ‘double think’,” he says.

to show my versatility but also keeping them quality through brilliant stories.”

How does he reflect on making Romulus at age 10?

“I love going back and watching those movies and seeing how young I was,” he says. “I felt I had less wisdom and hadn’t been on the journey I’ve gone on. I loved what I was doing.”

Did he cope with the pressure? “There wasn’t any pressure. It’s that thing of knowing that what you’re doing is right and you love it. It’s new journeys and new lessons.”

In Gallipoli Smit-McPhee plays 17-year-old Thomas ‘Tolly’ Johnson, who lies about his age to join his older brother Bevan in the Gallipoli campaign in 1915. “It’s the most physically intense thing I’ve done since The Road’,” he says.

He convincingly portrays a young, skinny, sometimes terrified boy who, like his mates, had no idea what to expect from war, especially a disastrous campaign overseen by an incompetent British command, which chose to persist in what became notorious in history as a lost cause with a tragically high loss of life.

The drama focuses on the experience of the soldiers in that doomed campaign. “We all know about Gallipoli and we celebrate the Anzacs but there’s a whole side to it that was what we were taught in school but it was kind of just left because it was so tragic and horrible,” he says.

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Duvall was awesome. People ask me if people sit down and help you career-wise with things. They never really do, but it’s an awesome thing to watch their wisdom and see the path they’ve gone down.

“It’s the feeling you’re [both] doing the same things you love and I can see myself being that old one day and still doing it.”

In particular, Smit-McPhee admires Leonardo di Caprio, and Johnny Depp because of his versatility. “I love Quentin Tarantino. I’d love to make the transition to become a director one day and write and produce.”

Smit-McPhee was born in Adelaide. His family moved to Melbourne when he was three so his father, Andy, could follow his acting career (McPhee snr is a professional wrestler who “performed as a wrestler in a Hungry Jack’s commercial and really liked it”).

It was an acting family. His sister Sianoa Smit-McPhee also acts (she spent two years on Neighbours Neighbours). When Smit-McPhee was eight his father asked if he would like to audition for some short films. “I was so used to going to sets with him, and my sister was doing it, I thought ‘Why not?’.”

At 10 he did Romulus, his first feature film, opposite Eric Bana, who played his father. The film told the story of Romulus Gaita, a Romanian immigrant who settled in Australia after World War II and his struggles to bring up his son Raimond, the noted philosopher and author. “Through this whole phase my dad was my coach,” he says. “He taught me everything he knew, and everything he knew meant a lot to me. It’s what I’ve based everything on.

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He was little known in the US, but blessed with a well-placed advocate. Bana had a word with some agents in LA. “He said, ‘Meet up with this kid, check him out’,” Smit-McPhee says. It was a key move. He was offered a run of prize roles including a starring turn as the Boy opposite Viggo Mortensen in the post-Apocalyptic The Road, from Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (also in the cast were Duvall and Charlize Theron).

It was “another beautiful dramatic story”, he says.

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remind him of his funny speech when he was 10.

“Thanks to my dad and family, and being Australian too – we’re very laid-back and grounded – I know what is important in my life, and that’s family,” he says. “And to always make sure what you’re doing in this life is one big opportunity. That’s what life is about, to make sure you’re enjoying it and that’s what I’m always doing.

“I’ve been so lucky to make the hybrid of being able to enjoy a career, which I can’t believe is a career because it’s something I enjoy so much, and also be a kid at the same time, have my friends in America and my friends here, who I come back to. Everything has been a beautiful journey and still is.”

But his speech did touch on the issue of the child star transitioning to adulthood. “That’s where I’m at now,” he says. “It’s obviously talked about with every child actor, that transition of keeping people comfortable with what you’re doing and keeping it relevant and keeping it quality. That’s all we’re trying to do.

“I’m trying to do quality stories but in different genres. I did Romeo and Juliet, Gallipoli. I’m trying

“This will show that through the eyes of a young boy and the other men that went on that journey.

“I think people are going to be expecting the chest-pounding patriotic army show but it’s not that at all. I think it shows more who soldiers are when they don’t have their military mask on, when they’re not marching through the streets and being soldiers. It shows them at their weakest point, when they want to be home and have their socks on that their mum knitted.”

Smit-McPhee’s father Andy – “He’s around 60, I don’t think he tells me anymore” – also has a role in Gallipoli, playing a general in the Light Horse Brigade.

Smit-McPhee jnr says he misses Australia. Returning to Melbourne last year to shoot the series was “a really cool experience”.

“I’ve come back to the house [in Craigieburn] I left five years ago, seeing how things have changed, how friends have changed. It’s been a bit of a learning experience.”

He is a grounded young man with a strong passion for his craft. “I don’t do this to be famous or a celebrity or anything,” he says. “I do it because I love it.

“Someone like Viggo [Mortensen] is great. Everyone knows him but you don’t see him in the magazines or tabloids or on the red carpets all the time, he just loves what he does, and loves the arts itself. I love that I work with people like that because I see how important it is to be like that. And I’d love to be like that.” \ pwilmoth@theweeklyreview.com.au WATCH »

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RECREATING

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Three years in the making, Gallipoli is the story of two young brothers who face the brutality of war when sent to Gallipoli in 1915. The mini-series will screen in seven parts, starting with a two-hour double episode followed by six one-hour episodes.

The mini-series, filmed in Victoria over 16 weeks with additional photography on location in Turkey, was inspired by Les Carlyon’s best-selling book Gallipoli.

Production designer Jo Ford used thousands of photographs, sketches, charts and records to recreate the Gallipoli peninsula. An extensive system of frontline and support trenches was constructed west of Melbourne to form the main set for the mini-series. Locations included Bacchus Marsh, Point Cook, Werribee and Mount Eliza.

While most set dressings and props were created for the production, a few rare original items were used, including a Turkish field gun captured on April 25, 1915, near Lone Pine. The creative team drew on the expertise of military adviser and former Australian Army major Dayton McCarthy, who also led the cast through military training before filming to help them understand the physical and psychological experience of a solider at Gallipoli.

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FASHION

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ianca Spender has never felt completely at ease following trends. She has defied them since she can remember. Even when grunge ruled the ’90s and Kurt Cobain was its reluctant king, she was the sort of girl who never wore band T-shirts, jeans or flannelette on a casual clothes day at school.

“I’d turn up to school in a skirt, cardigan and ballet flats before it was cool to wear ballet flats. Everyone was like, ‘What are you wearing?’. I didn’t feel the code was really me,” the 37-year-old says.

Spender, the daughter of renowned Australian fashion designer Carla Zampatti, is following in the family footsteps. She recently hosted an intimate breakfast at The European to showcase her latest winter collection, called Counterpoint.

Spender spent three years living in Paris in the early 2000s, chasing her fashion dream. These days she lives in Sydney with her partner and two young sons.

A dewy rebellion informs her collection every season. She defies trends and, when it comes to women’s wear, she is all about contemporary, stylish, tailored pieces.

“Each collection I create is an evolution of the last one,” says Spender, who made her fashion debut in collaboration with her mother in 2007.

“I find a thread of an idea and go with it. I become fascinated with something and I push it hard enough so I find the next thing.”

For example, a few years ago Spender spent time in an overgrown forest. The idea was to inspire new thinking.

“From there I began to explore the pre-Raphaelite

period. For a while it was all about crazy draping. By the time the next season came along, I couldn’t look at a dress,” she says.

“I had done feminine to the point that all I wanted was something masculine and tailored.”

In turn, when sharp tailoring had run its creative course, she turned to modernism – cool, clean lines.

When that also got boring, video installations and photographic stills prompted a moody response.

“Fashion is a real emotional journey for me,” says Spender, who also applies a mathematical formula to her design.

“I want to give women freedom to wear what they want to wear and to make it relevant to their mood. If it’s relevant to their mood, then it’s relevant,” she says.

Counterpoint is an apt title for winter. Spender takes masculine jackets and adds feminine oomph, refines tailoring with a sexy verve and creates long dresses that transcend from day to nightwear. She’s all about taking dress codes for work, play and formal and bending them a little.

“I am more known for being over than underdressed,” she says – this season she turned a T-shirt idea into a floor-length gown with a leather bodice.

“I want women to experiment with what they love and that’s what I hope to offer through my own collection. They can mix and match whatever they want,” she says.

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There are deep-sea blues, rich burgundies and sheens and shades of black.

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Know their style Observe his or her sense of style, likes and dislikes; pry into their fragrance stash and check out what they wear now.

Keep it in the family Buy something from a similar fragrance family or buy the same scent in a limited-edition bottle or in a travel or purse size. Scented candles in similar fragrance families are also great options.

Variety is the spice of life Vary their perfume concentrations. If they wear an eau de parfum (10-20 per cent aromatic concentration), buy them a lighter version – either an eau de toilette (5-15 per cent aromatic concentration) or cologne (3-8 per cent aromatic concentration) – and vice versa.

Play matchmaker If you know they like your scent, buy them the male or female equivalent.

Or complement their favourites with scents from other fragrance families – florals go well with citrus scents, woody notes complement amber and musk and green notes take to incense and leather very well.

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he festive season is just fading into the background and we are hit with Valentine’s Day. Some are adamant it is just a marketer’s dream while others truly believe in the power of love. Whatever your persuasion, it is a great day to tell the one you love how much he or she means to you.

You can go crazy and splurge or handle the day in quiet style.

I am no love guru but I believe action speaks louder than words. Yet if opening your wallet is your modus operandi, do not go past fragrances.

It is without doubt that fragrance is the language of memory. “The olfactory bulb is part of the brain’s limbic system, an area so closely associated with memory and feeling it’s sometimes called the ‘emotional brain’,” says Sarah Dowdey, editor of education website How Stuff Works. “Smell can call up memories and powerful responses almost instantaneously.”

If you are in the market for something special for your true love, connect the fragrance to a memory you share. It could be a holiday you took, a first meal, your wedding bouquet or a place you have always wanted to visit and experience.

Whatever the memory, I can assure you it will be well received. But, for those whose partners are a little absent-minded – spell out the connection in your card. \ dnaidu@theweeklyreview.com.au

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EDT (75ml, $89) A perfect addition for Daisy devotees; perfumer Richard Herpin has blended sheer florals with a hint of fruit. The scent is lush and playfully fresh, with notes of pear, passionfruit, jasmine and lily of the valley.

EDP (100ml, $110) A beautifully blended floral fragrance combining lemon and hyacinth top notes, rose and iris middle notes and musk as a base note. Up and coming perfumer Mohammed Ne’emah, who is quietly taking over the fragrance world, created this unique concoction.

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EDP (100ml, $185) This sensual and spicy fragrance is inspired by Vaslav Nijinsky’s ballet performance of Stéphane Mallarmé’s poem The Afternoon of a Faun. It features bergamot, pepper, cinnamon, incense, orris root, myrrh, leather, rose, jasmine and oak moss.

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From the writers and director of Kick Ass, this playful spin – for laughs, rather than shocks. When people explode, on the super-spy movie is about as dumb as the kids’ table there’s not a smudge of crimson to be seen. Instead, their at a Tea T Party convention – but a lot more fun. Eggsy (Taron T Taron heads vaporise into a trail of psychedelic gas that recalls the Egerton) is a working-class kid from a tough London estate, “no blood” kiddie mode available to certain games. whose idea of a good night out is stealing a flash car.

Part Harry Potter Potter, part Grand Theft Auto, this is a When these hijinks get him into trouble, he is rescued kids’ film that teenagers will actually want to watch,

by Harry (Colin Firth), who inducts him into a secret packed with action, swearing and subversive humour.

TOP order of stiff-upper-lipped spies whose job involves As with anything adolescent, it isn’t always sure PICK them saving the world on a daily basis. where to draw the line. The final scene, which riffs Packed with gadgets, secret tunnels and on the sleazy finales to ’70s Bond films, might lure a high-octane action, Kingsman gleefully riffs on the snigger from 13-year-old boys, but makes Roger Moore sort of outrageous silliness modern-day Bond films lack. look like a feminist icon.

These nods at the past are moderated by a hyperreal (and Still, we post-pubescents can enjoy some strong turns hyperviolent) aesthetic borrowed from some very modern from Firth, Mark Strong and Michael Caine, all of whom computer games. This is ultraviolence without consequence seem to be having as much fun as we are. \

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The debut from this Norwegian-Irish-Brazilian trio (based in Britain) is a blend of the drowsy and the danceable. There’s a strange, lethargic disco vibe, best illustrated by seductive single Feel Safe, which bubbles along on a funk rhythm while falsetto vocals swoon and sigh before erupting in an irresistible disco-freakout climax. Other tracks such as Stone, Keep Me Alive and Utmost Good are dreamy, grand, epic pop, without sacrificing energy for atmosphere. Tight melodies and a sense of drama keep a tendency to sprawl under control, with the overall effect being like a fusion of the Cocteau Twins and the Bee Gees playing stadium rock. Even allowing for a couple of gossamer, T forgettable moments, All We Are feels like the first truly great record of 2015. \

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Market open for business The Camberwell Fresh Food Market reopened on Tuesday 3 February, and to celebrate we are holding a Family Market Day on Saturday 7 February.

Come along between 10am and 1pm, and take your pick from a variety of fresh produce, watch cooking demonstrations, sample a selection of foods from market traders and listen to roving performers.

There will also be plenty of activities for the kids, including face painting and balloon twisting.

While at the market, have a look at its great new features, including new floor finishes, new wall finishes in some areas, new shop signage, a relocated fruit and vegetable section, new toilets and parents’ room, and new external paving and seating to the market’s north.

For more information, visit www.boroondara.vic.gov.au/cffm or phone 9278 4444.

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LISTENING \ Björk. Vulnicura.

Surprise new LP from the always inventive Icelander is a heartbroken and rather stunning return to form.

ATTENDING \ Roma! (ACMI).

The Eternal City is honoured with an impressive program of cinematic tributes, including Roman Holiday Holiday, La Dolce Vita and The Great Beauty.

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WATCHING \ Black Sails.

(Showcase, Thursday) The first season of this piratey Treasure Island prequel never quite reached deep water, but the cast alone makes it worth risking a second voyage.

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A photogenic young family are sent into hiding when dad Troy (James Stewart) is caught in a drug deal. The witness protection program transplants them from Gold Coast suburbia to a spooky old house on the outskirts of Sydney where not a lot happens. Not in this first episode, at least. Presumably there will be tensions between new lives and old lives and, we imagine, Marcus Graham’s gangster Nils will come looking for vengeance.

But there’s no real sense of anything new being done with a well-trodden premise. The script has a few comic flourishes, but meanders to a limp ending that offers little incentive to tune-in next week. Stephen Curry brings his usual laconic charm and it’s great to see Jacqueline McKenzie on screen, but this is a strangely sluggish start to a new crime drama. \

PLAY The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas \ Red Stitch Theatre, opens February 6, $20-$39 » www.redstitch.net Red Stitch kicks off its 2015 season with the Australian premiere of this dark morality tale starring Richard Cawthorne and Jordan Fraser-Trumble. The fittingly named Gorge leads us on a tour through the capitalistic peaks of the ’80s and ’90s, in which greed is not only good but essential. His three rules for success are: lie, damn the consequences and never regret.

Playwright Dennis Kelly is best known for collaborating with Tim Minchin on the hit musical Matilda, but has an impressive range of politically tinged credits to his name. \ TO READ MORE REVIEWS

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Its 300 rooms and suites, fresh from a $720-million makeover, are hands-down the best designed I’ve stayed in. Everything is where you want it to be, nothing is superfluous or annoying.

Finishes are elegantly luxurious – marble bathrooms, high-gloss walnut and mahogany – and views are

eye-popping. The in-room technology is unprecedented; intuitive tablet computers let guests order room service, control lighting and temperature, connect to myriad internet TV and radio stations, plan excursions via virtual city guides – and more, in 11 languages.

There is a lot to love about this hotel. Free phone calls to anywhere in the world, faultless wi-fi, laundry returned to your personal valet box with an orchid flower (just because), the music room with its grand

piano always ready for use, and the illustrious Lobby, Hong Kong’s favourite meeting place.

And, best of all, the airport transfers in Peninsula-green Rolls-Royce Phantoms. Way to make an entrance. \ khill@theweeklyreview.com.au » www.peninsula.com

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Star British chef Jason Atherton (of Mayfair’s Pollen Street Social) is behind the modern British menu at Aberdeen Street Social, a duplex restaurant housed in the former Junior Police Clubhouse. Upstairs is fine dining on raw Hokkaido scallops, confit quail and an optional seven-course “bespoke” menu for about $137. Downstairs is an all-day café with a patio that’s popular for weekday brunches and any-day cocktails and desserts. A Sweet Social shop sells takeaway pastries, gelati and chocolate. \

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» duddells.co Everywhere-entrepreneur Yenn Wong (she’s a partner in Aberdeen Street Social) is behind this Cantonese restaurant-cum-art-gallerycum-cocktail-bar in the Shanghai Tang Mansion. Head to the upstairs salon and garden terrace to try out the expansive list, which runs from Château Mouton Rothschild wines to classic cocktails. Best consumed while grazing on dim sum prepared in the Michelin-starred restaurant downstairs. \

The initials stand for Police Married Quarters, and it is a heritage pile being reinvented as a creative hub. PMQ opened in June and its shopfronts are filling fast with designers, artists and other creatives. Shops include fashion labels such as Kapok and YC Yeung Chin. Workshops teach how to make jewellery and other arty-crafty objects. » www.pmq.org.hk DOGOSEE

British expat Dicky Woollard leads tours brimming with insights into Hong Kong, the Kowloon Peninsula, the New Territories and the islands, including Lantau. Discover a Jing Dynasty tollhouse, markets, tearooms and the legend of Kowloon’s nine dragons. » dogosee.hk

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Cathay Pacific has three direct daily flights from Melbourne to Hong Kong, with a total flying time of 9.5 hours in business, premium economy and economy cabins. Bookings and details » www.cathaypacific.com.au

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emember when eating out in regional Victoria meant grabbing a pie from the local bakery, or a roast-lamb counter lunch at the pub? How times change. Now towns across the state boast fine dining restaurants, hipster cafés and gourmet providores showcasing regional produce and gastronomic smarts.

Few have made as convincing a culinary transformation as Beechworth. Sure, you can still grab one of the best pies going at the legendary Beechworth Bakery but within a couple of hundred metres you’ll find a multi-award-winning fine diner (Provenance), a craft brewery (Bridge Road Brewers), a coffee-roaster and café (Blynzz Coffee Roaster & Café), an excellent bistro (Ox and Hound), a hip tapas place (The Press

Room), a sleek wine bar (Cellar Door Wine Store), and a honey-themed café and shop (Beechworth Honey Discovery). These culinary credentials will be on show next month when Beechworth hosts its World’s Longest Lunch as part of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. Guests will feast on a bee-inspired menu presented

by Beechworth Honey and devised by The Age Good Food Guide’s 2013 Chef of the Year, Michael Ryan, featuring the region’s best produce, chefs, wines and mead. \ jhutchinson@theweeklyreview.com.au » www.melbournefoodandwine.com.au

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For a one-stop snapshot of history take the kids to Beechworth’s historic precinct.

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After an exquisite multicourse dinner in one of the state’s best restaurants, what could be better than strolling a few metres across a pretty courtyard to retire in a luxurious suite inside the property’s old carriage house?

Each of Provenance’s four guest rooms has been decorated with a nod towards the restaurant’s Japanese sensibility, and equipped with king-size bed, capacious spa bath, flat-screen TV and fluffy bath robes.

Don’t miss breakfast in the restaurant’s main dining room – the house-cured bacon alone is worth the drive to Beechworth. \

Craft beers, artisanal pizzas and a sunny courtyard out the front – what’s not to like about this converted historic coach house in the centre of town? Grab one of the hotly contested wooden bench seats under a wide market umbrella and choose from 20 house beers, or order a tasting paddle to try four, six, eight or 10 varieties. There’s also local cider, handmade giant pretzels and a relaxed feel-good vibe. After lunch, check out the brewery inside, which produces 300,000 litres of liquid gold a year. \

Seated under the soaring ceiling of the former Bank of Australasia building, it doesn’t take long to see why Provenance’s chef Michael Ryan was named The Age Good Food Guide’s chef of the year in 2013. The minute the house-baked bread and smoked miso butter hits the table it’s clear you’re in for something special. Ryan fuses classical and Japanese techniques to create dishes such as asparagus with seaweed butter, or cured cobia with sake-infused cucumber and sweetcorn. It’s worth lashing out on the six-course degustation with matched wines. \

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n an established area that has long experienced strong demand but lower supply for contemporary new housing, national developer Mirvac is unveiling its latest master-planned residential community of Jack Rd. Located in Cheltenham, Jack Rd will offer a diverse range of new housing and apartment designs in a loved and established suburb on the bay side of the Nepean Highway and surrounded by amenities that appeal to singles, families and downsizers.

The 4.2-hectare site, between Jack and Reserve roads, was once home to a furniture factory. Those days are long gone and the land is set to become a village-style estate that embraces bayside culture and the site’s industrial past in its design.

Drawing on its experience creating Beacon Cove in Port Melbourne and the Heath in Heatherton, Mirvac’s plan for Jack Rd puts a community park at the heart of the development and incorporates environmentally sustainable principles into all buildings.

“We have been able to create an exclusive village that embraces the outdoor bayside lifestyle through a master plan that focuses homes around a feature park, creating an intimate and walkable enclave for families,”

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Mirvac group executive for residential John Carfi says.

“Mirvac’s ability to create a development that has the fabric of a community sewn into it from the outset is one of our key advantages, and one we look forward to sharing with Jack Rd’s surrounding neighbourhood.”

Mirvac Design national housing design director Andrew La has gained a lot of experience in residential development planning in his 20 years with the company.

He says Mirvac aims to capture the distinctive nature of an area and create a development with a unique identity.

Jack Rd has been created to encourage a friendly neighbourhood feel through its street network, orientation of the houses and the leafy green park created by MDG Landscape Architects, he says.

“At the heart of the development is Jack’s Park, a 1800-square-metre green space with an undercover seating area, picnic area and a children’s play area. It is like the village green,” he says.

“Street paving will be a softer colour than you are used to seeing and the landscaping will have a lush native coastal appearance.”

There is also good news for young families. “We have designed the Jack Rd master plan to be a low-traffic

community, with the layout encouraging people to drive slowly,” La says.

A wide variety of housing and block sizes will attract a diverse range of buyers, from bayside renters looking to buy their first home to established families.

Buyers can choose from a range of house, townhouse and boutique apartment designs by Mirvac architects.

Two-bedroom townhouses and apartments will appeal to singles, downsizers, and first home buyers, while families will have a choice of spacious three- or four-bedroom homes up to three levels.

Mirvac expects the response to be strong in an area where usually just 750 houses are added to the market each year, while there is demand for about 1100.

Mirvac is also designing for activities beyond family life. The Soho design in some apartments can allow the ground floor to be used separately to the rest of the house. It could become a home office, a business, be rented, or used as multigenerational accommodation.

“Having people work from home or possibly using some of the properties for business purposes can help to activate the streets. We want to create an active community,” La says.

Enjoying the area European settlement in Cheltenham began not long after Melbourne was established, with the first lots sold in 1853. It is now a key southern suburb, with an emerging café culture and surrounded by excellent amenities of all kinds.

The beach Cheltenham is close to the bay. Sandringham Beach, with its cafés and restaurants, is at the end of Bay Road.

This area is one of Melbourne’s most vibrant water sports foreshores. There’s a boat harbour, the prestigious Sandringham Yacht Club, sailing clubs, swimming and life-saving clubs, and other sporting facilities. This section of the bay is popular with families for fishing, snorkelling and just enjoying a day on the sand. Learn stand-up paddle boarding, Australia’s fastest-growing water sport, at Sandringham beach.

At the end of Balcombe Road is Black Rock Beach, which has boat hire and a yacht club.

The Bayside Coastal Art Trail, celebrating notable artists who painted the magnificent views of the cliffs and beaches, stretches for 17 kilometres and can be explored on foot or by bicycle.

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“We have been able to create an exclusive village that embraces the outdoor bayside lifestyle” – JOHN CARFI All homes will be completed to the last detail, with landscaping included in the package. “Buyers don’t need to do anything – just choose a colour scheme,” La says.

Appliances, fittings and materials are of a high standard, with customisation packages available. Colour schemes are neutral, taking cues from the area, with textures adding interest. Rainwater tanks and solar hot water panels are included in the price of most homes.

Jack Rd is being released in stages. When complete, it will have 184 residences, including boutique two-bedroom apartments in three blocks. The first stage, close to Charlton Avenue, will feature two-bedroom apartments, two- and three-bedroom

Westfield Southland, with its distinctive bridge of shops over the Nepean Highway, has more than 400 shops and a 16-screen cinema. It is a 15-minute walk from Jack Rd. The Cheltenham shops are set around the train station, and Charman Road has a large shopping strip in the heart of the suburb. DFO Moorabbin and Kingston Central Plaza are on the eastern border of Cheltenham.

Sports facilities Several of Melbourne’s world famous sandbelt golf clubs are in Cheltenham and on the doorstep of the suburb. In a beautiful swathe of green open space, Cheltenham and Victoria golf clubs border Sandringham Municipal Golf Course, and the Royal Melbourne Golf Club, which was established in 1891 and hosts world cups, Australian masters’ tournaments and presidents’ cups.

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hese last few weeks at the University of Minnesota, reported that the my best friend Al height of a room’s ceiling “affects the way you process (Alka-Seltzer) and I information”. She suggested higher ceilings encouraged have been up pretty late most people to think more freely and creatively, which might nights. I doubt if anyone other help them to make more abstract connections. Find than David Attenborough a building where the ceiling is conspicuously high could describe what I look like. and spend some time looking up; it’s cheaper than After endlessly shoving food medication. The only side effect is you may get giddy, in my gob and wearing but in a good way. only garments without buttons or fasteners, it’s For a sustained head spin, visit the Great Hall time to get my ducks in a row and put away (opened in 1968) at the National Gallery of you may the tinsel. We all have earnest intentions of Victoria. The stained-glass ceiling here is the get giddy, a citrus-fresh, new beginning at the start of world’s largest and it’s powerfully evocative. but in a the year. It’s prudent to get some retrospective Designed by Australian artist Leonard good way clarity on the year that’s been while also French, who’d never worked with glass having the courage to take a peek at what we before, the ceiling is high (13.72 metres), vast hope to achieve in the year ahead. Currently both (60.9 metres x 15.24 metres) and so heavy with outlooks give me indigestion. glass and steel that its downward projecting triangles In play are civil wars and the growing impression are held up by steel columns. Each of the main triangles of inadequacy or vulnerability in every field of global has been turned into thousands of geometric pieces of endeavour – from protecting the environment and coloured and clear glass cut so their facets bounce and alleviating poverty and homelessness, to halting the refract light. The 224 triangles of diamond-cut primary spread of Ebola, combating terrorism, stopping the sale colours weigh 300 kilograms each. When French’s of weapons and drugs, and lowering unemployment. assistant Les Hawkins suggested they use a grinding Now is not the time to sneer at hope. Hold up your glass; machine to cut the slabs of imported French and Belgian could it be half full? Stupid, I know, but finding meaning glass and that each piece would take about four hours in all this is a useful option. I’m not encouraging to cut, French ran a glass cutter along the surface then meeting your demons or spirit angels, walking on hot cracked the glass with a hammer. “It cut perfectly,” he coals or delving into ancient Mayan prophecies – using said. “We’d still be there if he’d had it his way.” a home-made ear syringe would be less painful. But you I’m betting the vivid colour and height of this could try experiencing the “cathedral effect”.

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Goatcher’s images represent recent technologies of the time (mathematics, chemistry and medicine) in classical and idyllic terms, while pastoral scenes acknowledge the role the country played in our economy and sense of identity. \

Stuart Doyle, who bought the building to make way for the new State Theatre “picture palace”, met John Eberson on a visit to the US in the early 1920s.

Eberson had designed a chain of “atmospheric” theatres famous for their ceilings, which gave the illusion of sitting under a night sky. Doyle commissioned Eberson to design the State Theatre (later The Forum). Thankfully we can still experience the magic of this auditorium with its classic Greek and Roman busts and, of course, that wondrous cerulean blue ceiling imitating the night-time Mediterranean sky. \

The Manchester Unity Building was built in 1932 to a design by Marcus Barlow. Its construction convinced Melburnians the building slump of the Depression was almost over. It inspired confidence well before anyone had seen the ground-floor lobby ceiling and cornices with their high-relief depictions of Aborigines, Australian flora and fauna, and transport, building and primary industries. Cornice panels in the corridors depict the society’s role in providing welfare, embodying the motto “Friendship, Love and Truth”. \

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Four-bedroom as displayed $788,000 (excluding landscaping, fencing and site costs)

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hat do Melbourne families want most when they’re building a contemporary home? When Australia’s most awarded home builder, Glenvill, set out to create its latest display, its team asked this question while contemplating every aspect of its design, construction and features to develop and deliver on a highly considered wish list, drawing on the perspective of the families they have worked with in recent years.

Visiting Glenvill’s new home at 1 Bateman Street, Hampton, it’s clear that space and light, living area flexibility, integrated indoor and outdoor living, contemporary styling and practicality are high on that list. Add one of Glenvill’s largest outdoor living rooms with dining and entertainment areas, and an outdoor kitchen.

Designed in compliance with Bayside Council regulations, the 483-square-metre, two-storey, four-bedroom house is constructed in rendered Hebel and is $788,000 as displayed, excluding landscaping, fencing and site costs.

Glenvill general manager housing Cameron George says the company wanted to create a generous, practical family home that was easy to live in and lovely to look at.

“We looked at the design features our clients regularly request and incorporated as much as we could into the Bateman,” he says.

“For example, people appreciate open formal and informal living areas but also want the choice of closing them off. They are also grasping the concept of outdoor living and want a generous room integrated with indoor living.”

The Bateman is an evolution of Glenvill’s 2013 Linear design.

Like the Linear, the Bateman has a discreet side entry allowing clean lines across its façade and heightened security.

An oversized front door opens to a spacious entry with a side door to a study and views through to one of two full-height picture windows in the formal living room. To the side, a short passage leads to the double garage and a powder room.

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Ceiling recesses and bulkheads frame kitchen, dining and living spaces. French doors in the dining area lead to a pergola and side courtyard. High stacking glass doors pull away from the living area, uniting it with the L-shaped 54-square-metre outdoor room.

The outdoor room has cedar-lined 2.7-metre ceilings and when opened up the house can accommodate 100-plus guests.

The kitchen has several preparation benches, including a 3.2-metre island bench. It also has a 900-millimetre stainless-steel Smeg oven/cooktop, mirrored splashback, an integrated refrigerator and freezer and Albedor white-gloss soft-close joinery.

Sliding doors conceal a walk-in pantry and a large laundry.

Wide (180-millimetre) grey-stained, engineered-oak boards add a sophisticated beach feel on the ground-floor. Neutral light tones continue in the upper level, stair carpets and other finishes.

At the top of the stairs, the second level opens into a multipurpose room ideal for relaxing with movies or TV. In tune with the generous dimensions, the main bedroom suite has an entrance foyer with doors to the walk-in wardrobe and a spa-like en suite bathroom with stone-topped double vanity, curved freestanding bath, double-length shower and separate toilet.

Two of the three other bedrooms have walk-in wardrobes, with a built-in wardrobe in the third. The family bathroom includes a bath, shower, separate toilet and linen cupboard and storage room.

The house has zoned integrated heating, refrigerated cooling and double glazing.

Glenvill, which has been in the residential housing sector since 1958, offers a full service including site development, in-house architect, town planning, documentation, structural engineering, construction, interior design and landscaping to a finished house. \ LIZ McLACHLAN lmclachlan@theweeklyreview.com.au

Rendered Hebel exterior construction Colorbond roof Outdoor living room with cedar-lined ceiling Oversized front entry door Semi-commercial aluminium window joinery 2.7-metre ground-level ceilings Square-set cornices Wide engineered grey-stained oak floorboards Wool-blend carpet Stacking sliding doors Sliding servery from kitchen 3.2-metre island bench Silestone benchtops throughout Mirrored glass splashback White high-gloss kitchen joinery with 30-millimetre brushed aluminium shadow line and brushed aluminium kicker Smeg stainless-steel oven, cooktop, rangehood and dishwasher Integrated refrigerator and freezer Walk-in pantry Semi-framed and frameless glass shower screens Freestanding bath in en suite Walk-in and built-in wardrobes Double garage with remote-controlled wood-grained panel door Zoned refrigerated cooling Gas ducted heating

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NICE TO BE AV A ENUE 14 BELMONT AVENUE, KEW, 3101

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ew, like other areas in Boroondara, is known for its substantial houses in leafy streets. But Belmont Avenue, off Cotham Road, stands out for its near-intact streetscape of Victorian houses that are more commonly associated with neighbouring Hawthorn.

When this single-storey late Victorian villa was built in 1889, the builder used all the flourishes of the Italianate style fashionable at the time. The house, which is in an area of historical significance, impresses with its polychrome brick façade. The bricks were most likely made at the Hawthorn brickworks only a few kilometres away, which was at peak production in the late 19th century.

A boldly projecting polygonal bay and adjacent square gabled bay show the asymmetry typical of Italianate houses.

The two-toned brickwork extends to the chimneys, which pierce a new Welsh slate roof.

Hawthorn bricks have also been used in part for the contemporary extension.

Although the house has lost some of its decoration, many original features remain, including leadlight windows, a double-arched hall, ceiling roses and deep cornices. Polished floorboards throughout set the tone for the blend of period and contemporary interiors.

The floor plan is very family friendly, in an area that has long been a favourite of families large and small.

Contemporary additions mean the house is well suited to those who love to entertain at home.

A side entry off the lace-trimmed verandah opens to a wide hall, which has a music room or study at the front with a bay window overlooking the front garden. A wall of built-in storage includes space for books and ornaments.

The hall then turns to the right (a feature of the Edwardian floor plan).

The spacious main bedroom suite includes a walk-in wardrobe and en suite created out of a second room. The bedroom, complete with white marble mantelpiece at the open fireplace, opens to a large walk-in wardrobe with

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storage on three walls. A door connects to the en suite where marble finishes, a dual vanity, separate shower and freestanding bath add to the glamour factor.

On the other side of the hall, the living room also has a bay window, and white marble mantelpiece.

A bedroom and a study complete the picture in this part of the house. Double glass doors at the end of the hall open to the contemporary open-plan kitchen, dining and living area.

Along the way though, you will find a decent-sized laundry with access to the sideway and a sleek powder room to serve the informal living zone.

In the kitchen, stone and stainless-steel benchtops include an island bench, and there are European appliances.

Broad windows give great views of the flourishing vegetable garden, and along the back wall two sets of french doors open the living and meals area to the east-facing deck, garden and swimming pool.

The living room has an open fireplace on one wall, with storage on either side of it. Still in this part of the house, a carpeted timber staircase with a white-painted balustrade works its way up to the first floor, which gives this house extra accommodation and big family appeal.

This floor features a rumpus room or teenage retreat, a bathroom and three bedrooms. All the bedrooms have built-in wardrobes and two have built-in desks. The elevation allows views over the surrounding rooftops and trees.

Plantation shutters here and at the other windows show how contemporary features enhance the period style.

The garden, which complements this house, is a gem. At the front, dense plantings of gardenias edge the brilliant green lawn (real grass) that is cut by a granite path to the verandah. Ornamental pear trees flourish against the boundary fences and the side garden is home to a terrific array of herbs and seasonal vegetables such as tomatoes that should appeal to cooks in the family. \ MARIA HARRIS mharris@theweeklyreview.com.au

Price \ About $3.5 million

Auction \ February 14 at 11.30 am

Fast facts \ Renovated and extended Victorian house in gorgeous garden setting; period features, including arched hall, leadlight windows, open fireplace and marble mantels; powder room; en suite and walk-in wardrobe to main bedroom; study/music room; zoned living; polished floorboards; designer kitchen with stone and stainless-steel benchtops; European appliances; teenage retreat; reverse-cycle and evaporative cooling; hydronic heating; security system; solar and gas-heated swimming pool; double garage with rear lane access; close to many leading schools, shops and transport.

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CAMBERWELL \ 30 MOREY STREET At the height of summer, this house is showing its true family value. Its street, in an established neighbourhood, is shady and tree-lined; its private north-facing front terrace, accessed through the lounge room’s french doors, is perfect for a cuppa in the morning, or something refreshing at sunset; and its rear garden is a summer-holiday haven, with a free-form pool under palm trees and multilevel decking for dining, entertainment and lounging.

The formal tone of the front rooms – main bedroom (with en suite), lounge and dining area – is set by hardwood floors, ornate cornices and ceiling roses that suggest 1930s origins.

Across the back of the house, a contemporary casual meals area and central kitchen take advantage of the slope of the land for supervision of kids enjoying the glass-fenced pool, and for a lovely outlook through full-height windows.

A building extension gives the kids a rumpus room down at pool level, and three bedrooms and a bathroom on the top floor. There’s an open study in what was formerly a second bedroom and the backyard bonus on this generous 728 square metres is a detached studio that could be a gym or teen retreat.

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Price \ $1.35 million – $1.45 million

KEW \ 37 GLADSTONE STREET

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Auction \ February 14 at 11am

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Agent: Madeline Kennedy 0411 873 913 .................................................................

Price: $1.7 million + .................................................................

Auction: Saturday February 21 at 12.30pm .................................................................

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Agent: Mark Wridgway 0419 510 777 .................................................................

Price: About $3.5 million .................................................................

Auction: Saturday February 28 at 1pm .................................................................

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This single-level, five-bedroom residence's generous proportions, zoning and designer style highlight its exceptional family appeal.

A beautifully presented solid-brick contemporary family house seamlessly combining open-plan living areas with outdoor entertainment spaces and pool.

Let's eat lunch @ He Says She Says, 1101 Toorak Road Let's eat dinner @ Squire's Loft, 766 Toorak Road Let's drink coffee @ Glen Iris Pantry, 106 Glen Iris Road

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Price \ $1.4 million +

Auction \ February 21 at 11am

Built nine years ago, this architect-designed house embraces minimalist design light-years ahead of its time. Utilising the entire width of the block, the dimensions inside are impressive. The modern yet relaxed interior has polished concrete floors and wide sliding doors, contributing greatly to the sense of space once retracted.

First past the dark timber façade is a front bedroom or study. Past this, the focal point becomes the impressively large central courtyard – acting as a beautiful and functional light well to the hall, second bedroom, main bedroom and its bluestone en suite. Both rooms have built-in wardrobes. At the rear, the living and dining area is open plan; there is a skylight above the stainless-steel and marble kitchen, and it’s serviced by a laundry and nearby bathroom.

Storage isn’t a problem; it’s right along the south wall, concealed behind black timber doors.

From here, a large sliding door extends this space to a verandah and second courtyard. There’s even a remote-controlled double garage with laneway access. \ JULIAN HEALEY

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TOORAK \ 1 CLENDON COURT This elegant Wayne Gillespie house is situated between St John’s and Cranlana, two icons that define Toorak. Although designed nearly 20 years ago, it provides the accommodation wanted today: glamorous entertainment space indoors and out and more bathrooms than bedrooms.

The house politely turns its back on the mansion-lined street to capture northern sun.

Three reception rooms open from a central, double-storeyed entrance hall. They give on to a private, walled garden that provides a dining terrace and a tiled, heated lap pool.

The family living room, with outlook to the west and north, has a new kitchen along its southern wall. Its stainless-steel appliances are set into finely detailed joinery.

The upper floor contains three double bedrooms all facing north, giving on to a balcony, each with a marble-clad bathroom.

The bedrooms open off a gallery above the dramatic central space lighted by a barrel-vaulted skylight. An innovation is the laundry on the upper floor.

To cater for that broken leg or relationship, the downstairs study could become a fourth bedroom, with its own marble bathroom.

The travertine-tiled ground floor is heated and an air-conditioning system provides ideal year-round comfort control for Melbourne.

A triple garage and workshop are accessible from the ground floor. \ NEIL CLEREHAN

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PROPERTY ID » 2011667468

Price \ $6 million – $6.5 million

Expressions of interest \ Close February 27 at 3pm

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Agent: Brad Cooper 0418 344 733 .................................................................

Price: $1.5 million + .................................................................

Auction: Saturday February 21 at 11am .................................................................

OFI: Thur 2-2.30pm; Sat 10.45-11.15am .................................................................

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Agent: Scott Patterson 0417 581 074 .................................................................

Price: $1.1 million + .................................................................

Auction: Saturday February 21 at 10am .................................................................

OFI: Thur 1pm, Sat 10am .................................................................

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PROPERTY ID » 2011689650

Price \ $1.65 million – $1.75 million

Auction \ February 7 at 1pm

A colonnaded porch and manicured garden are a stately welcome to this single-level house. The interior has a breezy elegance, with full-length windows, porcelain and parquet floors for under-foot cool and a garden so colourful everyone will want to hang around out the back. The house is nine years old and ripe for families – it’s zoned for Balwyn High School and is a five-minute walk from North Balwyn Village. Formal living and dining rooms, warmed by a Heat & Glo gas log fire, face each other across the parquet hall. Double doors link it with the open-plan area, where the meals and family zones open north and east to the L-shaped garden. The glossy white kitchen has Kashmir Gold bench tops and a Miele 900-millimetre gas cooktop, under-bench oven and dishwasher. Of the three bedrooms, the main suite is at the front and has a walk-in wardrobe and en suite with a shower and twin basins. Two more bedrooms have built-in wardrobes and share a spa bathroom with a shower. The large study could make a fourth bedroom. \ ALISON BARCLAY

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Enthusiasts of 1970s style will love this beautifully crafted Kevin Borland-designed house featured in "The Design Files" that showcases sun-drenched open spaces.

A contemporary three-bedroom, threebathroom house delightfully styled in classic terrace traditions and tucked amid a peaceful leafy setting.

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Family Sanctuary In Resort-Style Setting A luxurious Sackville Ward family lifestyle on an expansive 1544 sq. metre double block (approx.) is enviably enhanced by the prestigious private schools position of this substantial 4 Bedroom plus executive Study residence. A craftsman-built showpiece from multi-award winning Ravida, this modern home is superbly zoned incorporating Formal, Family, Games and Children´s wings and an upperlevel dedicated to parents´ comfort with large Bedroom and Retreat, huge ensuite, dressing room and balcony. Magnificently completed by a resort-style garden featuring self-cleaning heated pool/spa, N/S floodlit Modgrass tennis court and a four car auto garage.

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Auction Saturday 21 February - 10.00am

Capturing attention with its enchanting street appeal & stunning manicured gardens, this home reveals an easyflowing layout & stylish terrace designed for entertainment pleasure, located meters to Ashburton Village, station, parks & schools. A rare offering - there’s a beautiful balance of classic charms & contemporary personality throughout this updated 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home comprising lounge/dining zone, premium kitchen/meals, single carport & unique opening for future commercial use if desired (STCA).

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1/721 Toorak Road (Cnr Avenel Road)

Seamlessly combining huge open plan living areas with generous outdoor living spaces occupying a total 370m2 approx. on the ground floor in the exclusive ´Avenel´ residency, this 4 bedroom apartment offers inner city living of the highest standard. Boasting Miele kitchen, stone bench tops, second living/study, high ceilings, timber floors, 3 fully tiled bathrooms, (master en suite), 3 car spaces, 2 storage cages, lift access and noise reducing acoustic windows. Situated in one of Melbourne´s most elite suburbs opposite Sir Robert Menzies reserve, with easy access to Tooronga Village, Kooyong station and the Monash freeway.

Saturday 14th February at 11.00am (Unless Sold Prior) Wednesday & Saturday 11.00-11.30am Justine Harris 0407 332 618 Mark Wridgway 0419 510 777 10 Wallace Avenue, Toorak 9826 1000 rtedgar.com.au

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MALVERN 42 Somers Avenue An inspired design by renowned Architects, Cocks Carmichael featuring voids and picture windows delivers a spacious interior loaded with natural light and tranquil garden vistas - exemplifying all that is desirable in a contemporary two-storey family residence. Boasting clean lines and an eye-catching façade it is highlighted by zoned living areas surrounding and opening to a central paved courtyard with solar heated in-ground pool - perfect for indoor/outdoor living and entertaining.

The home sits in an elevated position and features a flowing interior with wide entrance hall opening to a fully-fitted study, sitting room, dining room and powder room plus a generous open-plan family precinct including a marble and Euro appointed kitchen (walk-in pantry) adjacent laundry and downstairs guest bedroom with ensuite. Upstairs there are four bedrooms, two with ensuites plus a family bathroom and generous retreat with north-facing balcony. Other features include intercom, alarm, ducted heating & cooling, sauna, cellar/wine room and remote double garage with internal access.

Perfectly located in one of Malvern´s leafy streets in the Stonington Mansion district with easy access to some of Melbourne´s finest shopping precincts including Glenferrie, Malvern or Toorak Roads, High Street, plus an array of prestige schools, CityLink/CBD and public transport options - offering a convenient, private and secure lifestyle. Land size: 787sqm (approx.)

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 3pm

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KEW 14 Belmont Avenue This classic Victorian family residence features Welsh slate roof & tuck point Hawthorn brick facade surrounded by lush gardens in one of Kew´s finest tree-lined streets. The home features a return double arched hallway, 5 bedrooms, main/ WIR/ensuite, study/music room, sitting room, office/2nd study, upstairs retreat, family bathroom, p/room & laundry; stylish S/S Euro kitchen informal living & alfresco with I/G pool. Incls. V/intercom, OFPs, Hydronic heating, R/C airconditioners, r/storage, cellar, auto watering, rem/front OSP & rear dble garage/ROW. Land size: 1,035sqm approx

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James Tostevin 0417 003 333 Andrew Gibbons 0407 577 007

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Office

266 Auburn Road Hawthorn 9822 9999

Web

www.14belmontavenue-kew.com

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66 THE WEEKLY REVIEW \ FEBRUARY 4, 2015

TOORAK 12 Kilsyth Avenue Combining a cul de sac setting with close proximity to Toorak Village, transformed by architect Mary Ruth Sindrey, this classic residence has created a totally captivating contemporary indoor/outdoor sanctuary. Dark timber floors and high ceilings are highlighted in the expansive living room and stylish kitchen while the dining area features an abundance of glass and bi-fold doors opening to beautiful private northeast gardens. Lavish main bedroom with designer en-suite is accompanied by 2 additional bedrooms, study and stunning bathroom.

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 10.30am

Inspect

Thursday 2-2.30pm & Saturday 11-11.30am

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Contact

Susan McGlashan 0417 554 224 Joanna Nairn 0419 994 664

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Office

1111 High Street Armadale 9822 9999

Web

www.12kilsythavenue-toorak.com

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FEBRUARY 4, 2015 \ THE WEEKLY REVIEW 67

CAMBERWELL 10 Lyric Grove This charming period family residence in the leafy Golf Links Estate is loaded with appeal highlighted by spacious zoned family accommodation over 2 levels including sitting & dining rooms, 4 bedrooms, main/ensuite, 2 upstairs with retreat, bathroom & storage; powder room & laundry plus a generous family living with stylish timber/granite kitchen, WIP & Euro appliances - all flowing to a sandstone paved entertaining area with water feature in a lush garden setting. Incls alarm, d/heating, Jetmaster FPs, 5,000ltr w/ tanks+drippers, garage/storage & OSP.

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 12.30pm

Inspect

Thursday 11-11.30am & Saturday 1.15-1.45pm

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Contact

James Tostevin 0417 003 333 Kathy Malcolm 0416 279 966 Michael Wood 0425 280 191

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Office

266 Auburn Road Hawthorn 9822 9999

Web

www.10lyricgrove-camberwell.com

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68 THE WEEKLY REVIEW \ FEBRUARY 4, 2015

KEW 5 Pleasant Avenue With it´s northerly rear aspect and generous parcel of land this spacious family home is perfectly located in a quiet leafy street moments from Kew and Camberwell Junction and boasts a formal living room, formal dining room, open plan family room that opens onto the rear garden with heated spa and outdoor rumpus with powder room and a/c, 4BRs with BIRs (main: terrace with city view, retreat area, WIR, ensuite), study, central bathroom, powder room and sep laundry. Feat: DLUG (I/A, workbench), central floor heating, a/c, B2B security. Land size: 805sqm/8,665sqft approx.

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 2.30pm

Inspect

Thursday 11-11.30am & Saturday 10-10.30am

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Contact

Duane Wolowiec 0418 567 581 Stuart Evans 0402 067 710

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Office

266 Auburn Road Hawthorn 9822 9999

Web

www.5pleasantavenue-kew.com

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FEBRUARY 4, 2015 \ THE WEEKLY REVIEW 69

CAMBERWELL 70 Rowell Avenue Cutting edge style is reflected in the eye-catching faรงade & spacious light-filled interior of this superb Architect designed 2-storey residence in the sought-after Sunnyside Estate. The interior is highlighted floor-to-ceiling windows, timber floors & wide entrance plus study/5th bedroom, sitting room, laundry, p/rooms & expansive living with sleek Stone/AEG kitchen opening to a northern terrace; upstairs retreat+balcony, 4 bedrooms, main/WIR/ensuite, family bathroom & City skyline views. Incls hydronic heating, cooling, front/rear dble garages (I/A).

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 10.30am

Inspect

Thursday 1.15-1.45pm & Saturday 2-2.30pm

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Contact

Andrew Gibbons 0407 577 007 Jason Brinkworth 0416 006 282

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Office

266 Auburn Road Hawthorn 9822 9999

Web

www.70rowellavenue-camberwell.com

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70 THE WEEKLY REVIEW \ FEBRUARY 4, 2015

CAMBERWELL 7 Wiringa Avenue This substantial four bedroom plus study family residence´s cul-de-sac exclusivity, schools, Highfield Park and Riversdale Road tram routes underline the desirability of the setting while north facing rear aspects add a natural advantage to the address. Luxurious formal entertaining areas and huge, light filled informal spaces surround a central kitchen featuring timber tones, stainless steel appliances and stone bench-tops. Solar heated pool, heating, cooling, substantial storage, 6500L and 2000L water tanks and secure double garage put fine finishing touches to an elite family property.

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 1.30pm

Inspect

Thursday 12.30-1pm & Saturday 11.45-12.15pm

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Contact

Mark Sproule 0408 090 205 Duane Wolowiec 0418 567 581

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Office

266 Auburn Road Hawthorn 9822 9999

Web

www.7wiringaave-camberwell.com

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FEBRUARY 4, 2015 \ THE WEEKLY REVIEW 71

GLEN IRIS 36 Bourne Road An exceptional light-filled haven set apart by soaring cathedral ceilings and natural timber finishes. Peaceful hues and floor-to-ceiling glass enhance the expansive living, dining and kitchen areas and Tasmanian spotted gum floors create a refreshing flow between zones. The main bedroom is complemented by WIR, ensuite and three further bedrooms. Three timber decks are perfect for indoor/outdoor entertaining and lush gardens create serenity in a quiet, private street. Well-appointed kitchen, bright bathroom, double garage and cellar. Land 858sqm approx.

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 11.30am

Inspect

Thursday & Saturday 11-11.30am

Contact

Fiona Ansell-Jones 0410 325 240 Andrew Hayne 0418 395 349

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Office

1111 High Street Armadale 9822 9999

Web

www.36bourneroad-gleniris.com

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72 THE WEEKLY REVIEW \ FEBRUARY 4, 2015

HAWTHORN EAST 87 Rathmines Road This single-level slate roof Victorian residence exhibits a superb fusion of timeless elegance, design inspiration and outdoor excellence; perfectly harmonizing contemporary living with sun-soaked alfresco court-gardens. Meticulous renovations under the supervision of architect Victoria Hamer showcase generous 4 bedroom + study/2 bathroom proportions boasting the right doses of modern functionality, while taking full advantage of a prized northerly rear garden incorporating solar heated pool, spa and double garage.

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 3.30pm

Inspect

Thursday 12-12.30pm & Saturday 12.45pm-1.15pm

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Contact

Peter Mitchell 0418 374 556 Chris Barrett 0412 927 409

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Office

266 Auburn Road Hawthorn 9822 9999

Web

www.87rathminesroad-hawthorn.com

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FEBRUARY 4, 2015 \ THE WEEKLY REVIEW 73

GLEN IRIS 26 Hillcrest Road Superbly situated near Hill ´n´ Dale Park, Ashburton Village, station & leading schools, this near-new single-level residence´s generous proportions, zoned living & designer style highlight its family appeal. Dark timber floors & plantation shutters add contemporary elegance throughout.

The wide hallway leads to sitting room, gourmet kitchen & living/dining room opening to the north-facing garden with terrace. The main bedroom with designer ensuite is matched by 3 spacious bedrooms, 5th bedroom/study & stylish bathroom. Double garage. Land: 757sqm (approx.)

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 12.30pm

Inspect

Thursday & Saturday 12-12.30pm

Contact

Madeline Kennedy 0411 873 913 Daniel Wheeler 0411 676 058

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Office

1111 High Street Armadale 9822 9999

Web

www.26hillcrestroad-gleniris.com

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74 THE WEEKLY REVIEW \ FEBRUARY 4, 2015

MALVERN EAST 10 Albert Street This stunning generously proportioned c1924 Inter War home´s blend of captivating elegance and contemporary style responds impressively to every family requirement near shops, cafes, trams, trains and schools. Impeccably presented throughout, the wide hallway introduces a study, sitting and formal dining rooms, gourmet European kitchen, casual dining area, studio/home office and expansive living room opening to northeast garden. The beautiful main bedroom with stylish en-suite is complemented by three further bedrooms and two bathrooms. Land 697sqm approx.

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 11.30am

Inspect

Thursday 1.45-2.15pm & Saturday 1.30-2pm

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Contact

Jason Brinkworth 0416 006 282 Daniel Wheeler 0411 676 058

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Office

1111 High Street Armadale 9822 9999

Web

www.10albertstreet-malverneast.com

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FEBRUARY 4, 2015 \ THE WEEKLY REVIEW 75

GLEN IRIS 33 Dillon Grove Perfectly situated near Ferndale Park, Ashburton Village, train/bus/tram and schools, the impressive family appeal of this picturesque 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom c1929 timber residence is brilliantly accentuated by its period allure and generous dimensions. A picture perfect faรงade reveals gracious lounge and dining room. Timber floors flow through well-appointed kitchen and living area opening to northern garden. A downstairs bedroom and bathroom are complemented upstairs by the main bedroom with en-suite, study, two additional bedrooms and bathroom.

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 1.30pm

Inspect

Thursday & Saturday 12.45-1.15pm

Contact

Jason Brinkworth 0416 006 282 Daniel Wheeler 0411 676 058

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Office

1111 High Street Armadale 9822 9999

Web

www.33dillongrove-gleniris.com

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76 THE WEEKLY REVIEW \ FEBRUARY 4, 2015

GLEN IRIS 21 Leopold Street Captivating period charm, generous family spaces and a deep north-facing allotment highlight the instant family appeal of this delightful single-level Edwardian home, superbly situated near High St and great schools. Baltic pine floors and high ceilings are showcased through L-shaped hallway leading to beautiful sitting room (OFP), main bedroom with ensuite and BIR´s, three additional bedrooms with BIR´s and central bathroom. The bright well-appointed kitchen, meals area and expansive living room wrap around a huge deck and deep north-facing garden. OSP.

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 1.30pm

Inspect

Thursday 1-1.30pm & Saturday 2-2.30pm

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Contact

Madeline Kennedy 0411 873 913 Anna Perry 0434 212 271

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Office

1111 High Street Armadale 9822 9999

Web

www.21leopoldstreet-gleniris.com

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FEBRUARY 4, 2015 \ THE WEEKLY REVIEW 77

GLEN IRIS 38 Audrey Crescent An understated faรงade introduces this deceptively spacious clinker brick home in the coveted Summerhill Estate offering exceptional zoned family accommodation with plenty of flexibility for living & entertaining. Comprising 4 bedrooms, main/WIR/ensuite, family bathroom plus generous living and/or dining, one with home cinema, sleek Miele kitchen & dining with adjacent laundry & leafy garden vistas. A covered deck overlooks the garden+lower level paved alfresco area. Incls alarm, d/heating, R/C air conditioner, extensive storage, rem/dble garage+workshop.

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 2.30pm

Inspect

Thursday & Saturday 11.45-12.15pm

Contact

Zali Booker 0422 576 049 Grayson Rayner 0433 654 744

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Office

266 Auburn Road Hawthorn 9822 9999

Web

www.38audreycrescent-gleniris.com

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78 THE WEEKLY REVIEW \ FEBRUARY 4, 2015

BALWYN 2/8 Knutsford Street Peacefully private in one of the Golden Mile´s most exclusive locations, luxurious appointments, impeccable design elements and generous free-flowing living areas beautifully balance the gentle rhythms of light and space ensuring a scaled-down lifestyle without compromise close to Whitehorse Road shops and trams. Glorious garden outlooks and stunning north-facing designer courtyard contribute boundless allure to the low-maintenance lifestyle appeal of this outstanding 3 bedroom/2 bathroom single-level unit including double garage with internal access.

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 1.30pm

Inspect

Thursday & Saturday 11-11.30am

Contact

Sue Woollard 0448 808 826 Doug McLauchlan 0418 377 718

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Office

266 Auburn Road Hawthorn 9822 9999

Web

www.2-8knutsfordstreet-balwyn.com

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FEBRUARY 4, 2015 \ THE WEEKLY REVIEW 79

BALWYN NORTH 1/16 Rangeview Grove The exceptional quality, contemporary style and generous proportions showcased by this stunning architect designed residence are brilliantly matched by its beautiful garden surrounds and coveted Balwyn High zone location near good schools, shops and trams. The flawless presentation features dark timber floors through sitting room, gourmet European kitchen and light-filled living/dining room opening to a landscaped courtyard. The main bedroom with stylish ensuite is downstairs while two additional bedrooms, retreat and sleek bathroom are upstairs.

Auction

Saturday 14th February at 12.30pm

Inspect

Thursday 10.15-10.45am & Saturday 10-10.30am

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Contact

Stephen Gough 0439 844 855 Tori McGregor 0400 633 992

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Office

266 Auburn Road Hawthorn 9822 9999

Web

www.1-16rangeviewgrove-balwynnorth.com

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BALWYN 41 King Street Extremely generous proportions, enticing period charm and an enviable north-facing corner locale near great schools, trams, Balwyn Village and bike path highlight the significant family appeal of this delightful timber residence. Timber floors flow through wide central hallway, inviting sitting room (OFP), dining room, modern kitchen and light-filled living room. Bi-fold doors extend living out to a large covered deck and northwest garden. The main bedroom with en-suite/WIR is complemented by three additional bedrooms (BIRs) and a smart bathroom.

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 9.30am

Inspect

Thursday & Saturday 11-11.30am

Contact

Nick Ptak 0413 370 442 Stephen Gough 0439 844 855

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Office

266 Auburn Road Hawthorn 9822 9999

Web

www.41kingstreet-balwyn.com

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80 THE WEEKLY REVIEW \ FEBRUARY 4, 2015

BALWYN 6/7 Boston Road Wonderfully secluded at the rear of "Berkley", an immaculately maintained enclave of 6 single-storey residences, this delightfully private, sensibly configured and particularly spacious 3 bedroom/2 bathroom home offers superb downsizing options in one of Balwyn´s finest treelined streets. The enduring hallmarks of renowned architect Joe Fudge are ever-present, including timeless marble finishes, lovely garden ambience and large rooms framed by high ceilings and northerly orientations.

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 2.30pm

Inspect

Thursday & Saturday 11.45-12.15pm

Contact

Doug McLauchlan 0418 377 718 Sue Woollard 0448 808 826

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Office

266 Auburn Road Hawthorn 9822 9999

Web

www.6-7bostonroad-balwyn.com

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GLEN IRIS 19 Faircroft Avenue In a lovely leafy pocket near Tooronga Village, schools, bike path and Gardiner station, this beautiful c1930´s solid brick residence´s exceptionally spacious dimensions impressively blend original elegance with contemporary style. Ornate ceilings are highlighted through the sitting and formal dining rooms. Brush Box floors convey a more contemporary tone through the gourmet marble kitchen and expansive living/dining room opening to north garden. The main bedroom with ensuite is complemented by 4 additional bedrooms, study and designer bathroom.

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 10.30am

Inspect

Thursday 12-12.30pm & Saturday 10-10.30am

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Contact

David Volpato 0414 701 983 James Redfern 0412 360 667

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Office

1111 High Street Armadale 9822 9999

Web

www.19faircroftavenue-gleniris.com

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FEBRUARY 4, 2015 \ THE WEEKLY REVIEW 81

GLEN IRIS 2 Netherlee Street Just a short stroll to Central Park, excellent schools, village shops and cafes and trams, this original solid brick period residence set within a very deep allotment represents an outstanding opportunity to renovate or rebuild in a highly prized location (STCA). Original high ceilings and generous proportions are displayed through the wide entrance hall, spacious living room, separate dining room and bright kitchen. Three good-sized bedrooms are accompanied by a bathroom with separate toilet. Land 737sqm approx.

Auction

Saturday 14th February at 10.30am

Inspect

Thursday 11-11.30am & Saturday 10-10.30am

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Contact

Jason Brinkworth 0416 006 282 Justin Krongold 0403 163 355

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Office

1111 High Street Armadale 9822 9999

Web

www.2netherleestreet-gleniris.com

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GLEN IRIS 8 Cusdin Street An ideal combination of period character, classic comfort & a renowned parkland position establishes this three bedroom/ two bathroom Bungalow´s immediate family appeal close to Back Creek Reserve & leafy Ferndale Park.

Three separate living domains & two alfresco decks offer ample family lifestyle flexibility served by an accomplished modern kitchen, high Art Deco ceilings, original open fireplaces, ducted heating/ cooling & dual off street parking.

A great area introduction with scope to update, renovate or even rebuild (STCA) if desired. Land size: 557sqm (approx)

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 10.30am

Inspect

Thursday 1.15-1.45pm & Saturday 11-11.30am

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Contact

Cameron Edgoose 0438 064 212 Zali Booker 0422 576 049

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Office

266 Auburn Road Hawthorn 9822 9999

Web

www.8cusdinstreet-gleniris.com

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82 THE WEEKLY REVIEW \ FEBRUARY 4, 2015

HAWTHORN EAST 529 Tooronga Road Behind its high fence this magnificently renovated brick Edwardian seamlessly blends period detail with modern luxury boasting a light-filled open plan kitchen/family room opening onto a substantial covered deck (B/I BBQ) overlooking the rear garden and I/G pool, 3BRs with BIRs (main: ensuite, WIR, OFP), teenage retreat, home office/4th bedroom, central bathroom, 2 powder rooms and sep laundry. Feat: OSP for two cars via ROW,, security system, hydronic heating, a/c, remote blinds, leadlight windows, pressed metal ceilings, OFPs, Baltic Pine floors.

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 10.30am

Inspect

Thursday 1.45-2.15pm & Saturday 2.45-3.15pm

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Contact

Stuart Evans 0402 067 710 Damian O’Sullivan 0418 566 916

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Office

266 Auburn Road Hawthorn 9822 9999

Web

www.529toorongaroad-hawthorneast.com

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HAWTHORN EAST 100 Rathmines Road Lushly private, wonderfully central and larger than anticipated, this renovated and extended 4 bedroom/2 bathroom Edwardian residence (C1906) offers refined multilevel interiors for an exceptional family lifestyle, culminating in sublime alfresco entertaining amidst an endlessly deep garden sanctuary. A versatile layout boasts elegant formal rooms, light-bathed Caesarstone kitchen, air conditioned casual dining, family room with lovely leafy outlooks, and lower level with additional living room/ bedroom/bathroom.

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 4.00pm

Inspect

Thursday 12.30-1pm & Saturday 12-12.30pm

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Contact

Chris Barrett 0412 927 409 Peter Mitchell 0418 374 556

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Office

266 Auburn Road Hawthorn 9822 9999

Web

www.100rathminesroad-hawthorneast.com

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FEBRUARY 4, 2015 \ THE WEEKLY REVIEW 83

HAWTHORN 8 Johnson Street This classic tuck-pointed Hawthorn brick Victorian home features arched hallway, rich Jarrah floors, 4 bedrooms, 1 downstairs with WIR+access to a sparkling bathroom & 1 upstairs with ensuite; powder room, laundry & generous fullwidth family living area incorporating a smart black granite kitchen with S/S appliances flowing to a partially covered deck overlooking a lush landscaped garden - creating the perfect indoor/outdoor precinct for entertaining. Incls. alarm, d/heating, R/C air conditioners, OFPs, flood lit gardens, watering system & storage.

Auction

Saturday 14th February at 9.30am

Inspect

Thursday 10.15-10.45am & Saturday 10-10:30am

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Contact

Jack Stean 0434 588 664 James Tostevin 0417 003 333

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Office

266 Auburn Road Hawthorn 9822 9999

Web

www.8johnsonstreet-hawthorn.com

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HAWTHORN 17 Bell Street A period streetscape in the heart of Hawthorn, opposite a delightful playground and park just moments from the vibrant Glenferrie Road adds new meaning to convenience in this pretty single-fronted freestanding Victorian cottage highlighted by a good sized allotment with rarely found tandem OSP. Featuring traditional period attributes, arched hallway, 2 bedrooms, full-width modern kitchen & dining area, bathroom & living room opening to a deck & easy care garden. Other features include ample room to extend out or up (STCA) & scope for further updating, d/heating, OFPs.

Auction

Saturday 14th February at 10.30am

Inspect

Thursday 11-11.30am & Saturday 10.45-11.15am

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Contact

Jack Stean 0434 588 664 James Tostevin 0417 003 333

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Office

266 Auburn Road Hawthorn 9822 9999

Web

www.17bellstreet-hawthorn.com

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84 THE WEEKLY REVIEW \ FEBRUARY 4, 2015

KEW 26 Wellington Street In the heart of the private school belt near Kew Junction, Alexandra Gardens and trams, this sensational architect designed residence´s exceptionally generous dimensions fulfill every family requirement. Timber floors and high ceilings feature through the sunny sitting room, gourmet Miele and stone kitchen and expansive living/dining room opening to a large northwest courtyard. On the basement level there is a study and home cinema/retreat. The main bedroom with sleek en-suite is complemented by two additional bedrooms and stylish bathroom.

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 12.30pm

Inspect

Thursday 11.45-12.15pm & Saturday 10.45-11.15am

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Contact

Robert Ding 0418 858 393 Duane Wolowiec 0418 567 581

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Office

266 Auburn Road Hawthorn 9822 9999

Web

www.26wellingtonstreet-kew.com

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KEW 12 Valentine Avenue Instantly appealing, this c1920´s timber Edwardian residence´s surprisingly generous dimensions combine wonderful period character with modern comfort in a coveted cul de sac location near leading schools and Kew Junction. Soaring ceilings and Baltic pine floors exude period charm through L-shaped entrance hall. The three generously proportioned bedrooms (OFPs) are accompanied by a smart bathroom, 2nd shower and powder-room. The dining room, family room and modern kitchen open to a deep northfacing garden. Land 302sqm (approx.)

Auction

Saturday 14th February at 10.30am

Inspect

Thursday 12-12.30pm & Saturday 11-11.30am

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Contact

Nikki Van Gulick 0419 325 911 Nicholas Franzmann 0412 247 175

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Office

266 Auburn Road Hawthorn 9822 9999

Web

www.12valentineavenue-kew.com

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FEBRUARY 4, 2015 \ THE WEEKLY REVIEW 85

KEW 4 Bramley Court An exceptionally broad frontage & coveted cul de sac location in the exclusive Sackville Ward highlight the enormous potential offered by this immaculately presented single level residence. A fantastic opportunity to enter this impressive Kew area to renovate or rebuild as a new luxury family home (STCA). The generously proportioned sitting & dining room & casual dining area served by a well appointed kitchen open to the north-facing garden. The main bedroom with bright en-suite is accompanied by two further bedrooms, second shower & toilet. Land 610sqm (approx.)

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 11.30am

Inspect

Thursday 1-1.30pm & Saturday 10-10.30am

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Contact

Nikki Van Gulick 0419 325 911 Nicholas Franzmann 0412 247 175

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Office

266 Auburn Road Hawthorn 9822 9999

Web

www.4bramleycourt-kew.com

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MALVERN EAST 3 Belgrave Road An outstanding renovation blends period form with contemporary function in this brilliantly spacious c.1925 single-level family residence. Chic designer styling and superior finishes enhance 4 double bedrooms (BIRs, main OFP/ ensuite), central bathroom, plus visually impressive open plan living/dining (gas OFP) with sleek stone kitchen (walk-in pantry), built-in storage and seamless alfresco entertaining aside a solar heated pool, manicured garden.

Features gas ducted heating, evaporative cooling & secure OSP x 3.

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 10.30am

Inspect

Thursday & Saturday 11-11.30am

Contact

Madeline Kennedy 0411 873 913 Anna Perry 0434 212 271

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Office

1111 High Street Armadale 9822 9999

Web

www.3belgraveroad-malverneast.com

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86 THE WEEKLY REVIEW \ FEBRUARY 4, 2015

MALVERN 15 East Street Inspired designer style and attention to detail shine through this stunning 3 year old Canonbury designed residence. Oak floors, plantation shutters and high ceilings create a luxurious contemporary ambience throughout. Wide entrance hall, elegant formal living and separate generous living/ dining together with a premium Miele kitchen looks out onto a private north-facing courtyard. Upstairs 3 double bedrooms (main with WIR and ensuite), study area and wellappointed bathroom. Features double lock-up garage, separate laundry and heating/cooling.

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 2.30pm

Inspect

Thursday & Saturday 2-2.30pm

Contact

Anthony Reis 0417 352 774 Madeline Kennedy 0411 873 913

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Office

1111 High Street Armadale 9822 9999

Web

www.15eaststreet-malvern.com

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MONT ALBERT 26 Salisbury Avenue This generously proportioned period family residence enjoys a large garden allotment dotted with mature trees & lovely garden vistas. The carefully maintained and inviting interior over 2 levels features polished timber floors, hallway, formal sitting room with adjacent study & dining room, downstairs main bedroom+ensuite, p/room & laundry. Light filled family living areas incl. a contemporary timber kitchen/meals & separate informal living opening to a 2-tiered deck & paved entertaining area. Incls d/heating, d/aircon upstairs, r/ storage & tandem OSP. Land size 728sqm approx

Auction

Saturday 14th February at 12.30pm

Inspect

Thursday 11-11.30am & Saturday 11.45-12.15pm

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Contact

Hamish Tostevin 0408 004 766 Davide Lettieri 0414 018 707

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Office

266 Auburn Road Hawthorn 9822 9999

Web

www.26salisburyavenue-montalbert.com

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FEBRUARY 4, 2015 \ THE WEEKLY REVIEW 87

PRAHRAN 2/51 James Street Sensational warehouse conversion with natural wood and brick finishes, exposed beams and soaring vaulted ceilings presents 3 bedroom comfort in a prime Prahran pocket.

Timber floors, strategically positioned windows and spiral staircase add ambience to an incredible full-floor open plan living area with Miele/Smeg equipped kitchen and French doors leading to a perfect alfresco balcony. Further stairway leads to a versatile mezzanine eyrie that could function as a study/office or additional bedroom. 28 squares (approx.) of living, lock up garage and hydronic heating.

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 9.30am

Inspect

Thursday 12-12.30pm & Saturday 12-12.30pm

Contact

Dean Gilbert 0418 994 939 Jason Brinkworth 0416 006 282

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Office

1111 High Street Armadale 9822 9999

Web

www.2-51jamesstreet-windsor.com

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SOUTH YARRA 2/33 Alexandra Avenue Commanding wonderful river outlooks from a vantage point directly opposite the Yarra, this sensational boutique apartment´s sleek, sophisticated dimensions deliver unbeatable lifestyle enjoyment near the Botanic Gardens and Domain and Toorak Roads´ restaurants. A streamlined design and contemporary tones accentuate the sense of space and light through the generous north-facing living/dining room with a fabulous balcony and stunning Miele kitchen. The main bedroom with designer en-suite is complemented by two spacious bedrooms and stylish bathroom.

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 10.30am

Inspect

Saturday 10.45-11.15am & Wednesday 10.30-11am

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Contact

Nicole French 0417 571 505 Marcus Chiminello 0411 411 271

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Office

1111 High Street Armadale 9822 9999

Web

www.2-31-33alexandraavenue-southyarra.com

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88 THE WEEKLY REVIEW \ FEBRUARY 4, 2015

ST KILDA EAST 32 Prentice Street Immaculate Victorian with refined attention to detail melds period charm with modern comforts in a peaceful cul-de-sac location. Exceptionally spacious dimensions for living and dining combine with a well-appointed kitchen and alfresco entertaining area, to offer endless entertaining opportunities. Effortlessly stylish, the main bedroom with BIR, WIR, ensuite and delightful private sun-deck, is complemented by two further bedrooms. Also includes a zoned Bluetooth surround sound system, ducted heating, evaporative cooling and spacious wine cellar.

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 1.30pm

Inspect

Thursday 12-12.30pm & Saturday 10-10.30am

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Contact

Sam Hobbs 0404 164 444 James Redfern 0412 360 667

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Office

101 Dundas Place Albert Park 9822 9999

Web

www.32prenticestreet-stkildaeast.com

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SURREY HILLS 6 James Street This substantial 5 bedroom plus study modern residence is beautifully presented delivering low-maintenance family excellence just metres to the 109 tram and minutes to leading schools. Proudly standing in an easily-managed landscaped setting, this immaculate home boasts downstairs master bedroom (WIR & Ensuite), formal sitting room (OFP), huge family living & meals area (Jetmaster gas heater), stunning granite kitchen, upstairs children´s retreat , two bathrooms, powder room, storage, central heating, airconditioning throughout, alarm, vacuum, alfresco terrace and auto DLUG.

Auction

Saturday 14th February at 11.30am

Inspect

Thursday 11.45-12.15pm & Saturday 12-12.30pm

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Contact

Désirée Wakim 0412 336 266 Antony Woodley 0421 286 741

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Office

266 Auburn Road Hawthorn 9822 9999

Web

www.6jamesstreet-surreyhills.com

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FEBRUARY 4, 2015 \ THE WEEKLY REVIEW 89

SURREY HILLS 59a Florence Road Rear 1 of 2 on its own title and no owners corp, this freestanding single level brick home boasts 3BRs with BIRs (main: WIR, ensuite, sep toilet), home office, formal sitting and dining rooms, family room and adjacent renovated kitchen (Caesarstone, quality appliances, meals area), renovated central bathroom and north facing courtyard and garden. Closely located to Riversdale Rd tram, Union Rd Village and parklands. Feat: electric security gate entrance, SLUG/storage, dbl carport, water tanks, duct heat, a/c.

Land size: 813sqm/8,752sqft approx.

Auction

Saturday 21st February at 11.30am

Inspect

Thursday 10.15-10.45am & Saturday 12.30-1pm

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5 Howitt Avenue Hampton $900 p/w

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GENEROUS VENDOR TERMS - 25% DEPOSIT, 3 YEARS AT 5%

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A4 | B4 | C1

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Inner city, made easy. A quality building by Davies Henderson.

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| 62a Cromwell Road

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Elite schools, Kooyong Village and public transport provide this superlative, substantial town residence with enviable family surroundings. Formal entertaining areas lead to a central granite kitchen, a large family dining domain and a spectacular conservatory living space. A refined library and jarrah panelled study enhance downstairs dimensions below four upstairs bedrooms and two bathrooms, including a superb main suite. A versatile children´s living area and a freshly renovated guest suite further ensure ongoing family enjoyment in a position of acknowledged prestige.

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Hugh Hardy 0407 339 807 Rob Vickers-Willis 0412 210 066 Office 9864 5300

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abercrombys.com.au

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An Exceptional Sense Of Space

| 20 Moonga Road

A5 | B4 | C2

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Tim Derham 0438 332 844 Kate Cusack 0438 334 374 Office 9864 5300

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Thursday & Saturday 1.00-1.30pm

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Impeccable Family Credentials

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A perfectionist’s approach to lavish design, this 3 level residence boasts the finest imported and local fixtures and fittings throughout. Your guests will love the formal lounge, living and dining with Italian marble gas fireplace, home theatre/rumpus and spa/gym room leading out to the alfresco with outdoor kitchen. Spoiling the consummate chef, enjoy the Italian marble/ Miele kitchen. In a separate zone, guests have their own stone kitchen, living, double bedroom and ensuite. With a total of 6 bedrooms, study and 5 bathrooms, relax in the master with WIR and sublime marble ensuite. Features double glazing, lift, C-Bus lighting and double garage. Near trams and first-class schools.

5

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Thurs 1.00 - 1.30pm, 5.30 - 6.00pm & Sat 11.00 - 11.30am Private Sale Mel Ref 45 / K2 EPR Price on Application Contact Claire Wenn 0409 857 506 Toby Parker 0413 581 104 Office Balwyn/Hawthorn 9830 7000

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RICHMOND | 2/29 Gipps Street Set on top of the highly prized Richmond Hill precinct, this very r rare second flf oor warehouse apart ry r ment boasts spectacular 360 rt degree views including breathtaking city views, spacious light fif lled open plan living, soaring 5 metre ceilings, timber flf oors, intricate timber trusses, exposed brickw k ork, quirky kw k character and an abiding sense of being part ky r of living history rt r . ry This stunning warehouse apart r ment is cool, calm and contemporary rt r . Only moments to Church and Swan Streets and Bridge Road ry shopping, cafe f s, bars, restaurants, schools, transport fe r , the MCG and the CBD. Featuring entry rt r , open plan living, dining, fa ry f mily room, 3 bedrooms, study, 2 bathrooms, ducted heating, air conditioning, security system, steam room, attic storage, Nort r h/ rt West private balcony and secure garage.

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14 Wallace Avenue, Toorak

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Phillip French Dav a id Colbran av

0411 090 987 0418 348 481

9825 0555

ST KILDA, 50 ALMA ROAD A GRAND VICTORIAN DAME C1884 A distinguished and stately home, this c1884 4 bedroom 3 bathroom Hawthorn brick Victorian terrace exudes grandeur and grace. Retaining its 12ft approx. ceilings and Baltic pine polished boards, this exquisite home provides 4 resplendent entertaining rooms (marble OFPs), Blackwood kitchen (Ilve stove and WI pantry), 4 superb bedrooms (BIRs/WIR & OFPs), 3 bathrooms (ensuite), a secret terrace, rambling north facing paved courtyard garden, workshed & secure parking. Metres to St Michaels Grammar, Alma Park, fabulous Fitzroy Street and trams.

AUCTION: SUN 22ND FEBRUARY AT 1 INSPECT: SAT & SUN 12-12:30

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Campbell Kilsby 0402 212 093 Leonard Persichetti 0417 319 900

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THE HOME DIRECTORY RUBBISH REMOVAL Cheap and Clean

At cheap and clean we specialise in rubbish removal, domestic and commercial, demolition and strip out.

Same day service 7 days per week Also public holidays, before and after hours, emergency callout and free quotes also tight excess specialist. Call 6am to 9pm 24/7.

Contact: Peter 0412 803 208 1169883-PB05-15

GARDEN SERVICES Groundswell Design & Management * Regular garden maintenance * Garden design and plant selection * Renovations and Construction Garden management solutions and professional service.

Call to arrange your free consultation and quote.

Contact: Cameron 0433 766 923

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PAINTING Proficient Coats

Our aim at Proficient Coats is to give each customer superior service by providing high quality work at competitive prices and therefore offer free quotations and advice to all our customers. Whether it’s restoration or new, internal or external, even a repaint to protect. Let our team of qualified and experienced painters transform your next project into something you can be proud to own.

Contact: Sergio 0421 966 274

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SHUTTERS Victorian Shutters & Shades

Distributors of the Durafit® Shutter System. This premium product exceeds quality standards of most shutters available today, providing peace of mind and a guarantee of quality. We also have on offer an entire range of Window Furnishings.

Showroom/Factory, 405 Canterbury Rd, Surrey Hills.

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GARDEN MAINTENANCE Gardens By Glen

30+ years experience in all aspects of Horticulture and Plants. Garden maintenance, new gardens, garden planning, garden renovations, regular garden service calls.

Contact: Glen 0408 456 988

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BATHROOMS

Bathrooms ‘R’ Us We do it all, from renovations and remodelling to plumbing and electrical, plastering, waterproofing and tiling. Contact us 24 hours, 7 days a week and we will happily assist. Call us now for a quote.

Contact: 0423 676 555 or 9530 0422.

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Smarter Bathrooms Escape to a beautiful bathroom with a complete design, build and project management from Melbourne’s smartest bathroom renovator. Guaranteed start and finish dates, or we pay you. Call for an award winning interior designer to visit you. 77 Salmon Street, Port Melbourne.

Contact: 1300 662 838.

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BATHROOM RENOVATIONS

Pepper Constructions Melbourne’s premier bathroom renovator. Specialising in design, build and total project management. Working with a fully registered, Master Builder brings peace of mind. Call now to arrange a free in-home consultation with our award-winning designer. MBVA, HIA, KBDI member Contact: 9568 1112. www.pepperconstructions.com.au

BLINDS

A/P Shutters & Blinds Highest quality blinds and Timber Plantation Shutters at Melbourne’s best prices. Specialising in all other window furnishings including Holland Blinds, Sun Screens, Awnings, Venetians, Romans and Curtains.

Contact: 9818 1133.

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Visit our showroom - We deal direct with you from the manufacture. We are committed to creating furniture which you will cherish for a lifetime.

Contact: Colin 9380 6399

and freight delivery services and complete packaging solutions for customers in and around Hawthorn and Richmond. You can drop off your goods at our Service Centre or we can pick up from your door - it’s your choice. Our freight solutions include domestic, international and domestic deliveries. 469 Riversdale Road, Hawthorn East.

Contact: 9813 4522.

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DECKING

Town and Country Gardens Personalised service including solving existing garden problems, plant health checks & revamping or establishing a new garden.

Practical, professional advice & garden designs ensuring your gardening needs are fulfilled.

Contact: 9822 3305.

Deck Tech provides a professional cleaning and sealing service for all timber decking, screening, paved areas and hardwood timber. Deck Tech will return your tired surface to a natural looking, hard wearing one. Suitable for all domestic areas including pool surrounds.

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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.

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Contact: Glen 0408 456 988.

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GARDEN SERVICES Groundswell Garden Design & Management Providing horticultural

FENCING

Bracken Blinds & Shutters Specialises in designing quality window coverings for the home, office or builders/architects on time and within budget. Showroom: 391 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, or let us come to you .

Contact: 1300 884 838 or 9882 3332.

Practitioner. Building quality timber fences in Stonnington and Boroondara 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, including fences over two metres high.

Contact: Les Webster between 7.00am and 7.00pm for a quote. Ph: 9547 4700

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Sold your home, renovating or wanting to get rid of unwanted goods? Clean up with my help. Let me help you sell your unwanted goods and turn it into $$$$.

We sell used furniture, kitchens, bathrooms and home décor. Contact me to give you a free appraisal.

Contact: 0425 329 247.

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Handyman, small job specialist, all maintenance, defects and repairs works, minor construction and demolition, kitchen/ bathroom refurnish refit works, plaster restoration, tiling, carpentry, painting, grouting, accredited waterproofing. Expert troubleshooting.

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solutions since 1990 • Regular garden maintenance • Garden design and plant selection • Renovations and Construction • Irrigation, Instant turf and mulching Comprehensive garden management solutions and professional service delivery.

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BATHROOM RENOVATIONS Pepper Constructions

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KITCHEN RENOVATIONS Smarter Kitchens Live in the kitchen you love with a complete design, build and project management from Melbourne’s smartest kitchen renovator. Guaranteed start and finish dates, or we pay you.

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Coats is to give each customer superior service by providing high quality work at competitive prices and therefore offer free quotations and advice to all our customers.

Whether it’s restoration or new, internal or external, even a repaint to protect. Let our team of qualified and experienced painters transform your next project into something you can be proud to own.

PLUMBING Mr H2O Plumbing Company has arrived and we’re ready to service your local area if you need plumbing in Melbourne!

We’re unlike any other Melbourne plumbing companies, so if you’re sick of using an unreliable plumber in Melbourne that charges a horrendous call out fee, then you’ve come to the right place.

Contact: 0488 166 166

OVEN CLEANING Ovenu We provide you with the ultimate professional domestic oven cleaning and detailing service that will leave your oven and other associated cooking appliances in near showroom condition. Return your oven to new using non caustic, biodegradable solutions. Introductory $10 discount.

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specialise in rubbish removal, domestic and commercial, demolition and strip out.

Same day service 7 days per week. Also public holidays, before and after hours, emergency callout and free quotes also tight excess specialist. Call 6am to 9pm 24/7.

Contact: Peter 0412 803 208

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Email: info@ap-shutters.com Contact: 9818 1133.

Victorian Shutters & Shades Distributors of the Durafit® Shutter System. This premium product exceeds quality standards of most shutters, providing peace of mind and guaranteed quality. An entire range of window furnishings on offer.

405 Canterbury Rd, Surrey Hills.

Contact: 9849 0355.

www.vicshutters.com.au

TREE DOCTOR

Professional, Reliable and Trustworthy.

Frank Duke Total tree care, including

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Contact: Paul 9509 4768.

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Matt’s Painting & Decorating Personalised, highly efficient and motivated team. Free quotes, prompt service and high quality paint finish.

Experienced porters paintapplicator and specialist in wall paper hanging. We don’t just paint, we create Contact: 0418 384 620.

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Almara Cabinets Winners of the

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Contact: 0418 338 996 or

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Showroom: 145-147 Williams Road, Dandenong.

Contact: 9793 8233.

www.mpainting.com.au

0419 473 156.

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ROOF REPAIRS The Roof Dentist

The Roof Dentist - Our business is about maintaining a durable, dry and safe roof over your head. Tile and metal roof maintenance and replacement, guttering repairs, replacement and cleaning.

Contact: Andrew on 0418 338 996 or Garry on 0419 473 156 for a high quality and professional service.

maintenance and replacement, guttering repairs, replacement and cleaning. High quality and professional service.

GARDEN CONSULTATION Town and Country Gardens

Personalised service including solving existing garden problems, plant health checks & revamping or establishing a new garden.

Practical, professional advice & garden designs ensuring your gardening needs are fulfilled.

Contact: 9822 3305

www.townandcountrygardens.com.au 1147684-KC32-14

1145343-KC30-14

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DECKING Deckseal Revival Pty Ltd

Melbourne’s deck care & maintenance professionals.

Residential and Commercial: Deck Sanding, cleaning & sealing. Concrete & paving cleaning and sealing.

Delivering a beautiful and

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for six years, Expert tradesmen,

Master Plumber at:

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long lasting deck surface.

Contact: Brian 0410 537 164.

www.deckseal.com.au 1165535-KC48-14

BLINDS Bracken Blinds & Shutters

Bracken Blinds specialises in designing quality window coverings for the home, office or builders/architects on time and within budget. Visit us at our showroom or let us come to you.

Contact: 1300 884 838 or (03) 0882 3332 391 Camberwell Road, Camberwell

www.brackenblinds.com.au 1144371-KC29-14

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www.plumber.com.au 1147720-KC32-14

PLUMBING Mr H2O Plumbing Company

has arrived and we’re ready to service your local area if you need plumbing in Melbourne!

We’re unlike any other Melbourne plumbing companies, so if you’re sick of using an unreliable plumber in Melbourne that charges a horrendous call out fee, then you’ve come to the right place.

Contact: 0488 166 166 1160324-LB43-14

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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 and Safety switches.

Free quotes 24 hour service.

Lic 17824.

Contact: Jason 0411 300 772

www.jlhuttelectrical.com.au 1145289-PB30-14

Natural Coloured Sapphires www.michaelwilson.com.au 725 Main Road Eltham 3095

03 9439 3111 info@michaelwilson.com.au