Karori: Renovation project at Mount Macedon, Victoria
SMH Tuesday Oct 11, 2011 |
| Overgrown gardens surround the house. |
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| Baltic and kauri pine panels lend a distinguished character. Picture: Luis Enrique Ascui |
Baltic and kauri pine panels lend a distinguished character. Picture: Luis Enrique Ascui
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| Dominic Romeo outside Kaorori. Picture: Luis Enrique Ascui |
Story at SMH: ****Karori: A project for a romantic****
This restoration enthusiast is smitten by the potential in a shabby 1890s chalet.
It's lucky Dominic Romeo likes the cold, is passionate about the tasks of major heritage renovations and has a wife, Marie, who is an interior designer, because they've just taken on the task of fixing up ''Karori'', a heritage-listed 1890 hill station at Mount Macedon.
Mr Romeo says of the house: ''I was sold at the front gate even before seeing [it].''
When he saw the six-bedroom weatherboard pile in the overgrown 2.47-hectare garden full of huge, 120-year-old specimen trees, he says it took him a two-second visual survey to know ''this was it''.
The Swiss-Italian-style chalet with its decorative fretwork, fancy roof finials, tall chimneys and square tower was the very definition of shabby chic, albeit with impressive provenance.
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| Picture: Luis Enrique Ascui |
External view of fineal timber work - Picture: Luis Enrique Ascui
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| Picture: Luis Enrique Ascui |
Lounge room bay window - Picture: Luis Enrique Ascui
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Dominic Romeo outside Kaorori. Picture: Luis Enrique Ascui 
Overgrown gardens surround the house. 
The exterior will likely get a coat of soft green. 
Picture: Luis Enrique Ascui 
Baltic and kauri pine panels lend a distinguished character. Picture: Luis Enrique Ascui 
Picture: Luis Enrique Ascui 
Picture: Luis Enrique Ascui 
Picture: Luis Enrique Ascui 
Picture: Luis Enrique Ascui 
Picture: Luis Enrique Ascui 
Picture: Luis Enrique Ascui 
Picture: Luis Enrique Ascui 
Picture: Luis Enrique Ascu
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