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Clients Mers and Ian had a small child and another on the way when they found their redbrick home nestled beside a primary school in a sweet Northcote street lined with lovely trees, grasses and heritage duplexes, built originally as public housing and affordable homes for soldiers returning from war. A simple renovation by an architect-owner made it immediately liveable.

The WA couple had moved to Melbourne for work and were loath to leave their adopted community in Clifton Hill. “But we knew it was

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