Made With Love
Home Beautiful|November 2019
ONE CLEVER PERTH COUPLE HAS CREATED A HOME THAT’S SUNNY, STYLISH AND SYMPATHETIC TO ITS ROOTS – PLUS, TAILOR-MADE JUST FOR THEM
Kathryn Madden
Made With Love

When this quaint 1930s weatherboard was listed for sale in 2015, perhaps it should have come with an ‘endangered species’ tag. Set in a lovely, leafy suburb in inner-city Perth, the home had watched many of its long-time neighbours be knocked down and rebuilt. Lucky, then, for this little home that it was snapped up at auction by young couple Seve, a building designer, and Laila, a primary school teacher with a creative bent. “The house had a great front facade and sat on a nice flat block,” says Seve. “But it needed a lot of work.” With its broken floorboards, cracked tiles and unattractive rusty-brown shower, it would have been all too easy to demolish the crumbling yet characterful two-bedder, but the couple had other plans. “We wanted to show the value of retaining a character home in the area,” affirms Laila.

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