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Our New Home in North Melbourne

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Entrance way when we first bought our home. Beautiful old red brick revealed under cracking plaster. My girls outside our entrance. We hired painters to help patch up walls and refresh the paint job. We have wonderful Art Deco lead light windows. As it looked when we bought it. Beautiful textures on the old walls. Original Edwardian tiles The successful  auction day! Move in day.  Finding places for all our things in our new space. After many happy years of living in semi-rural, beautiful Warrandyte (24 km east of Melbourne CBD see previous post here ). Where our primary school aged kids benefitted from a tire swing in the yard and the Australian bush, we decided on a complete change. With our three girls growing up, recognising their need for independence and wanting to embrace all that Melbourne has to offer as one of the most 'livable cities in the world', we set our plan to move in, in motion. We chose a very good co-