Domain Review Bayside & Port Phillip - April 05, 2023

PEOPLE & PROPERTY OF MELBOURNE

STEFANIE JONES THE MAGIC OF MARY POPPINS

APRIL 5-11, 2023

ANTHONY CALLEA

HIS MELBOURNE

CHILD’S PLAY THE SCHOOL HOLIDAY GUIDE

CHEF’S SECRETS A HEARTY DISH BY NABIL ANSARI

B AY S I D E & P O R T P H I L L I P

C o mp i l e d b y H A I L E Y C O U L E S

The editor’s desk

“A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down” is the very best parenting tip I’ve ever heard. I knew the phrase as a kid – perpetually playing a VHS tape of Mary Poppins, which my parents swore I’d wear out.

But it wasn’t until my own daughter started watching the film on repeat that I got the true meaning of the lyrics; kids need love (sugar) while you’re setting boundaries (medicine).

It’s why the story still resonates today, Mary Poppins the musical star Stefanie Jones says. I spoke to Jones about playing the world’s most-loved flying nanny for our cover story this week. Give it a read – spit spot! ●

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THE EDIT Things we love about Melbourne

OUR COVER \ Stefanie Jones. Photographed by Kristoffer Paulsen

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he short hop from Wile E. Coyote to Wagner may not be an obvious one. All the same, Emmy Award-winning conductor George Daugherty says his background in ballet helped prepare him to front the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra as they perform Bugs Bunny at the Symphony at Hamer Hall.

“For me, conducting a Road Runner cartoon is like conducting a ballet,” Daugherty says. “It’s all movement and music.”

And laughter, of course. Daugherty says these symphonic performances, where a full orchestra accompanies classic Warner Bros cartoons, have four elements — the music, the dialogue, the sound effects and the response from the audience.

They are perfect family events, where the joy comes from sharing timeless animation across the generations (complete with an enthusiastic laughter track) and maybe learning a thing or two about classical music along the way.

For many young viewers, the Looney Tunes cartoons — such as The Rabbit of Seville, which parodies Rossini’s famous opera — were their first exposure to the great composers.

“When I was a little kid, I thought that The Barber of Seville came from Bugs Bunny,” Daugherty says.

“When I first heard the actual Barber of Seville, I thought, ‘oh my god, they stole this from Bugs!’ To me, nothing is more brilliant than seeing Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny singing Wagner or Rossini.”

Bugs Bunny at the Symphony (April 27-29) is just one of the family-friendly treats Melbourne has on offer around the Easter school holidays.

Thanks to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, there’s no shortage of shows to tickle those with smaller funny bones.

Wildhouse Circus: Party Pooper (April 7-16) makes its Melbourne debut after wowing Adelaide Fringe. Expect an energetic circus-style spin on the classic kids’ birthday party with all the hits – pin the tail on the donkey, pass the parcel and musical statues – performed by three very childish acrobats.

Other festival treats include Comedy Club for Kids (April 8-23) and Sean Choolburra’s Didj & Dance (April 7-23).

ENTERTAINMENT There is plenty of fun ahead

for the whole family during the school holidays.

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There’s more comedy at the Playhouse, as “kidult” duo The Listies – famous for bad-taste jokes popular with parents and offspring alike – offer a unique and very silly reworking of Shakespeare with Hamlet: Prince of Skidmark (April 11-15).

The core idea is that a pair of idiots (our heroes) attempt the impossible (staging a successful theatrical production).

We’re promised all the good bits from the original (ghosts, castles, sword fights) with bonus pillow fights, ninjas, pirates, aliens and ninja pirate aliens.

Previous runs have been a hit, so book early.

If the lure of the screen is stronger than the stage, the kids might enjoy a visit to ACMI’s free exhibition The Story of the Moving Image.

The interactive installation offers a journey through the past, present and future of screen entertainment, from shadow puppets, through

films to video games. Young visitors can try their hands at animation, film editing and sound recording or marvel at the original costumes from the recent blockbuster Thor: Love and Thunder Thunder.

Of course, the headline treat for young cinephiles these holidays is The Super Mario Bros. Movie (opens April 5), which – much like Bugs Bunny at the Symphony – promises to have crossgenerational appeal, particularly for anyone who has picked up a Nintendo controller in the past 30 years.

The cast, which includes Chris Pratt and Anya Taylor-Joy, looks promising and there’s some pleasing gender-flipping in having the princess rescue one of the plumber brothers, but it remains to be seen if symphony orchestras will be performing the catchy theme tune 80 years from now. ●

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To the highest heights COVER STORY Mary Poppins star Stefanie Jones on

the enduring power of P.L. Travers’ classic story.

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n 2021, deep in the time of COVID restrictions, Stefanie Jones stood on a stage in London’s West End to audition for the lead in a show.

It was the last in a string of call-backs for the part, but this time she was in front of renowned theatre producer Cameron Mackintosh, and it was the start of something brewing, about to begin.

“I was certainly the most nervous I’ve ever been, especially when you’re that close to getting your dream role,” Jones says.

That role? Mary Poppins. Jones got the call that she would be Australia’s next practically perfect nanny on her return home to a locked-down Sydney.

Now, Jones is in Melbourne where Mary Poppins is full flight after its runs in Sydney and Brisbane.

The songs most would know and love from the classic movie are there, with new tunes propelling the story (written by Downton Abbey’s Julian Fellowes), which does differ from the film.

There’s a magical garden rather than a cafe run by penguins during Jolly Holiday and new, quirky characters in Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

There’s a new villain (more on that later), tapdancing (on the ceiling!) and, of course, flying seemingly with only an umbrella with which to soar.

Jones says she grew up watching the 1965 movie starring Julie Andrews, but when she saw the stage show for the first time, she was awestruck.

“When Mary flies over the audience at the end, I just thought ‘this is the height of music theatre for me; this is as good as it gets’,” she says.

The 31-year-old, who grew up in Brisbane and studied music theatre at the Victorian College of the Arts, says her love of Andrews as the title character has influenced her performance – but not so much so that she is a “carbon-copy”.

“On one hand, you want to give the audiences what they want and what they expect because there is an element of nostalgia attached to this story for so many people,” Jones says. “[But] I have all these other opportunities to make a certain scene or a certain song my own, because they haven’t been featured in the film.”

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And that’s one of the reasons adults (as well as children) will get a kick out of the show; it’s not just a duplicate of the movie. The other reason? It tugs – no pulls – at the heartstrings.

“Even though people think, ‘oh Mary Poppins, gosh that’s old’, it’s a story about family and relationships and communicating,” Jones says.

“Those are the foundations of everyone’s happiness.”

The first book in the Mary Poppins series by Australian-turned-English writer P.L. Travers was written almost 90 years ago, but the themes of family, and parenting in particular, hold true today.

Australian theatre legend and mother of five Marina Prior says this is the true heart of the story.

“It says it in the opening phrases of the show,” Prior says, then she sings: “‘A mother, a father, a daughter, a son, their lives are unravelling … ’ That’s the essence of the story right there.

“It’s about them, and Mary Poppins being the agent of change to bring their unravelled-ness back together.

“That is universal and timeless.”

Prior played Mrs Banks in the 2010 tour of the show, and plays two parts in this production: the kindly Bird Woman and the villain Miss Andrew.

“I walk out, and if people haven’t bought a program, they say, ‘I didn’t know it was you!’ ” Prior will finish her run of shows in June, when Patti Newton will take over as the Bird Woman and Chelsea Plumley will play Miss Andrew.

Jones says she has loved working with Prior. ““Feed the Birds is one of my favourite numbers,” she says. “To share that song with Marina is especially wonderful because she really challenges me as a singer and she’s a beautiful actor.”

Unlike the Bird Woman, Miss Andrew is meanspirited and, in stark contrast to Mary Poppins’ Spoonful of Sugar Sugar, insists Brimstone and Treacle is how to make the children behave.

Many a parent will recognise this as a metaphor for the more gentle parenting of today versus the “children should be seen and not heard” attitudes of previous generations.

Mr Banks (played by Tom Wren) is the product of brimstone and treacle – his own nanny being the villainous Miss Andrew. But he is transformed through the story, seeing the importance of childhood and the impact parents and carers can have on the adults children become.

“It’s about an absent father who wasn’t given the right sort of love and support when he was young, transferring that into the next generation. It’s about breaking the generational curse, if you like, of bad parenting,” Prior says.

As I sat in the theatre with my four-year-old daughter and my own mother, I welled up as Burt (played by Jack Chambers) sang to Mr Banks: “You’ve got to grind, grind, grind at that grindstone, though childhood slips like sand through a sieve … ” That part gets Jones, too.

“I really think the hero, the protagonist of this story, is Mr Banks. It really is about him. It’s so evident in the books because P.L. Travers started creating this story in her mind as a little kid after her father died,” she says, referencing the movie Saving Mr Banks about Travers’ childhood and the adaptation of her books by Disney.

Once she packs away her umbrella later this year after shows in Adelaide and Perth, Jones will once again be up in the air – at least metaphorically.

“The tricky thing about this industry is that you can’t really plan too far ahead, and as someone who likes to be extremely organised – I guess I’m like Mary Poppins in that way – I have had to really try to relax that side of me and just sort of let it be.”

For now, she’ll stay until the wind changes. ●

Marina Prior as the Bird Woman.

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“It’s a story about family and relationships … those are the foundations of everyone’s happiness.”

KRISTOFFER PAULSEN

STEFANIE JONES

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MUSIC Maestro Chong Lim on 25 years since Kylie’s Intimate & Live tour.

GREG BRIGGS

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Step back in time N early 25 years ago, pop princess Kylie Minogue made a triumphant return to Australia for a concert tour after years of living in the UK. The Intimate and Live tour in 1998 saw Minogue sell out venues across Australia – including seven concerts in Melbourne at the Palais Theatre. It gave Minogue the respect she had previously lacked from Australian music critics.

Kylie the live performer had arrived and finally, aged 30, was getting the recognition she deserved.

Behind the scenes, the man who worked with Minogue and her UK team to make the groundbreaking concert happen was musical director Chong Lim. “She wanted the concert to begin in Melbourne because it was her hometown,” Lim says. “I was so excited because at that stage, if you remember, we

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were still very rock-focused as an industry, and there were not many opportunities to work with an artist like Kylie.”

Lim was then best known as the man behind the famous John Farnham band, a brilliant producer of live concerts, events and music in Australia.

Sitting in a Richmond cafe, Lim recalls he first worked with Minogue in 1997, at the opening of Crown Casino. “After that, her manager Terry Blamey gave me a call and asked if I wanted to put the band together for the concert,” he says.

Lim used some members of the Farnham band, including backup singer Lisa Edwards and the late Stuart Fraser on guitar.

Minogue brought her UK music director Steve Anderson and a couple of musicians with her.

Lim says the band only rehearsed with Minogue for a week, and everyone nailed it.

“I would rehearse with the band in the morning and she would come around in the afternoon and sing the songs,” Lim says.

“Kylie is very conscientious, a hard worker and she does her homework.

“She is effortless on stage, but people don’t realise the hard work she does behind the scenes.”

Compared with the ritzy sets of a Kylie tour these days, the Intimate and Live tour was stripped back.

The set was based on the Impossible Princess album and Minogue was joined on stage by the band and only two male dancers, often wearing giant angel wings.

Lim believes this worked because it showed Australia she could really perform.

“It was a conscious decision to front her with a band,” he says. “Normally she might have been flanked by 20 dancers and musicians hiding behind a screen or something like that, but for this tour, everything was laid bare on the stage.”

Minogue came out on stage for the first concert on June 2, 1998, wearing navy blue pedal pushers

by Melbourne label Princess Highway, and the atmosphere at the Palais Theatre was electric.

The tour travelled around Australia and later the UK to incredible reviews.

Lim says it was a real privilege to see Minogue embraced by the Australian public.

He has since gone on to work with many huge names in the music business, including Robbie Williams last year at the AFL grand final, but says the Intimate and Live tour of 1998 will always remain close to his heart.

“I was so happy for Kylie … because she had worked so hard, and the band sounds great to this day,” Lim says. “I am so proud of what we all did.” ●

“Kylie … is effortless on stage, but people don’t realise the hard work she does behind the scenes.”

CHONG LIM

CHEF’S SECRETS

Ansari describes the vibe as “energetic”, the kind of place you can pop in for a drink at the bar before heading out, or settle in for a meal with mates.

Beyond sourcing the best produce for Firebird, Ansari wants people to have fun with their food.

That might mean ordering the $59-per-person set menu with unlimited fries and oysters (the record is held by a group who ate four dozen each), or digging into playful desserts.

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Chicken heart skewers

Daring dishes Firebird head chef Nabil Ansari gets adventurous.

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abil Ansari wants more people to eat offal.

The Firebird head chef joined Commune Group (also New Quarter, Moonhouse and Tokyo Tina) in September, but only recently overhauled the menu to include a “skewer of the week”. When we speak, it’s chicken hearts.

“People expect them to be minerally or the texture to be no good, but we soak them overnight in milk … there’s not much prep involved at all and you end up with a delicious piece of meat,” he says.

The rotating skewers are Ansari’s way of introducing inquisitive eaters to something new by providing a small taste.

For many, it will be the first time they realise how tender beef intercostal can be, all sweet and sour from a palm sugar and tamarind glaze.

On other weeks, offal might be replaced with skewers such as octopus slow-braised in Vietnamese bun rieu (a traditional crab noodle soup).

Most recently senior sous chef at Sunda in the CBD, Ansari’s command of ingredients can be

traced back to his first kitchen job after he moved to Melbourne from Saudi Arabia to be a chef (he dropped out of aviation school to do so).

He dived into the deep end at The European, where he mastered basic stocks and sauces. From there he worked at Hotel Windsor, before cooking under Khanh Nguyen for four years at Sunda and learning South-East Asian flavours.

Ansari’s experiences converge at Firebird where, in his first head chef position, he marries Vietnamese-leaning cuisine with its colonial French influence. Perhaps the dish that best exemplifies this is the smoked, dry-aged duck, inspired by Khanh’s dish at Aru restaurant (part of the Sunda and Hotel Windsor family).

Every morning before service, Ansari and his team throw wood on the hearth and smoke the ducks for four hours. The result is crisp, glossy skin with soft, pink flesh still intact.

They’re also marinated in Vietnamese five spice, lemongrass, and orange and mandarin peel. As for that French influence, it’s in the accompanying duck jus and orange vinaigrette splashed over radicchio.

Firebird is a change of pace for Ansari. Here, the walls are vibrant with projections and artwork, and while the music won’t drown out a conversation, it won’t exactly appease your grandparents, either.

with smoked salt and lime Makes 25 skewers Ingredients Chicken hearts: 1kg chicken hearts 2l fresh milk Marinade: 100g fish sauce 90g sugar 100g lime juice 10g long red chilli, blitzed 20g shio koji

Smoked salt: 100g Olsson’s smoked salt 5g Vietnamese five spice 5g raw sugar 10g lime zest 3g black pepper, crushed

Method ■ Prepare the chicken hearts a couple of days ahead.

■ First, make an incision in the middle of each heart and gently fan out. Trim the excess fat at the top and remove any blood vessels. Soak the chicken hearts in fresh milk for 24 hours.

■ For the marinade, combine all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Marinate the hearts for a minimum of six hours.

■ For the smoked salt, combine all ingredients in a bowl and mix well.

■ To cook, skewer the hearts by fanning them on the skewers to ensure they cook evenly. Grill the skewers on charcoal or a wood barbecue, or sear them in a heavy, cast-iron pan. They’re best medium-rare, which takes about a minute cooking time on each side.

■ Serve hot with smoked salt and a fresh lime wedge on the side.

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MY MELBOURNE

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n his memoir, Behind the Voice: Dietro la Voce, Melbourne singer-songwriter Anthony Callea takes us on a personal journey of his rise to stardom and self-discovery in a no-holds-barred expose of how he navigated the past 20 years of his career. From childhood entertainer to being crowned runner-up on Australian Idol in 2004, his single The Prayer became one of the fastest-selling singles by an Australian artist at the time. He continues to sell out shows, including show-stoppers at The Palms at Crown, and if you’ve been to one of his shows, you know he loves to have a good old chat with his fans throughout. ●

Anthony Callea The singer-songwriter shares his secrets of life in the city.

New obsession

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E-SCOOTERS Let’s just say I have surprised myself with the love JOHN TSIAVIS

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I’ve got little legs, so they don’t like walking too far.

[My husband, Tim Campbell] and I have definitely

“There is also a great lobby bar inside the NEXT Hotel in Little Collins Street that makes great cocktails.” rocked up to the Village Wine Bar in Albert Park on

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Australian Open with my brother – and scooted

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Collins Street that makes great cocktails. For me,

home afterwards. Beats a cab or an Uber queue.

I was never a fan of French cuisine until I ate at

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I love to host and entertain at home. We are lucky

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I’ve never been a snail-eating type of guy, but this

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city from our apartment and I love having friends

is the only place I will eat snails, or as the fancy

I’ve watched a few performances at Paris Cat over

over. The problem is I can’t cook, and when I say

people like to call it, escargot.

the years. It’s a great venue that showcases local

can’t – I mean I don’t like cooking. I can outsource, so you’ll find me running around South Melbourne

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Market finding what I need. I also call Kyle at

musicians – some of whom are my friends – and many international acts as well. You’ll also find me spending a lot of time at The Palms at Crown

LaManna asking him to make me up last-minute

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Melbourne. I have played eight concerts there this

charcuterie boards. Sunday afternoons are spent

I love browsing the luxury department store

year already. The venue and audiences have been

on the balcony with good tunes, cocktails and a lot

Harrold’s on Collins Street – yes, browsing, unless

so good to me over the years and the team at Palms

of laughs and inappropriate conversations.

there’s a sale on. I’m sure Tim would kill me if I

is like family. ●

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hese days, we have all kinds of movements designed to help slow down our fast-paced lives.

There’s the slow food philosophy, with a focus on seasonal, local, organic produce, slow medicine, where doctors spend a little more time with each patient, and slow fashion, the opposite of fast fashion.

NOW, MEET SLOW FURNITURE

Slow furniture is a philosophy that represents both a rejection of modern throwaway culture and a return to traditional craftsmanship.

CJ Cornish is the marketing and merchandising manager at Melbourne luxury furniture retailer Cosh Living, where slow furniture is front and centre. She says the concept is all about “thoughtful materials and thoughtful purchases”.

“For us, slow furniture taps into the ideology of ‘buy once, buy well’,” explains Cornish. “We represent a curated selection of brands. Each has a commitment to quality and timeless design. It is furniture

designed for longevity, not seasonal trends. We encourage our clients to buy from the heart and for the long term.”

Cornish has noticed that clients are more conscious than they used to be about where their furniture is coming from and the story behind it.

While Cosh stocks European furniture, it also has an in-house label, Kett, which is devoted to creating made-to-order slow furniture that captures the Australian way of life.

“Kett uses traditional techniques.

All the timber tables are made by hand,” says Cornish. “All the upholstery, staining, finishing … when we talk about handcrafted, we really mean handcrafted.”

Kett design director Justin Hutchinson says designing for sustainability and taking responsibility for the entire lifespan of a product have been part of his ethos since the start of his career.

“What occurred to me early on was you could design products that were

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not influenced by trends or fads or fashion but had a timeless sentiment,” he says. “And so taking a reductionist approach and trying to design classic pieces that people would see not only expressing a contemporary, forward-thinking environment but also that would have longevity. So, something that had an heirloom-type status where it might be passed from one generation to the next.

“I think that very much ties back to the idea of a slow furniture movement in that it’s not about rapid consumption. Most of our challenges with areas of consumption are things that have a very, very short lifespan.

For example, a coffee cup. You essentially use it once, and it goes straight into the bin.”

To this end, Kett is currently working on an innovative new sofa system called Feathertop that can be continually refurbished and reinvigorated instead of cast aside due to wear and tear. Hutchinson and his team are exploring elements like removable covers and repairable components that will give the product a long and healthy life.

Slow furniture is more sustainable than its fast counterpart both because it’s less likely to wind up discarded and headed for landfill, and because it’s made without toxins and with natural, local materials that create a smaller carbon footprint.

Kett uses “quintessential” Australian materials like wool, timber, leather and natural stone in its furniture. “Because ultimately,” says Hutchinson, “it’s like going out to a good restaurant: the quality of the produce is what makes the dish.”

Explore Kett’s slow furniture in Cosh Living showrooms all over Australia. In Melbourne, these are located in Richmond and Cheltenham. ● JANE HONE

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HOUSE OF THE WEEK BRIGHTON \ 417 NEW STREET 5

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Built in 1878, elegant Colombo House is one of the area’s earliest homes. It has all the hallmarks of gracious living in an earlier era, not the least of which is space.

Rooms are on a comfortably grand scale with 3.7-metre ceilings, and the house is set on about 2405 square metres.

Victorian flourishes are there in the arched hall, ceiling roses, ornate cornices, lavish fireplaces of ornate marble and wide skirting boards and architraves. Marble chequerboard floors are a feature, and the house has bluestone foundations.

At the front of the home, a sandstone verandah leads to the front door with decorative glass and to an arched hallway that becomes a central gallery. To one side, a sumptuous living room is defined by a large bay window, a red and grey marble mantel to the open fireplace and steps down to the side garden. The living room opens to the dining room, also with an open fireplace, and across the hall is a flexible room that could be a bedroom or study.

The main bedroom suite, off the wide gallery, has a large walk-in wardrobe and an en suite with a bath. The bedroom, on the sunny northern side of the building, has double doors to a conservatory.

The timber kitchen has two wall ovens and ample storage.

Looking out to the rear garden is another dining room with an atrium ceiling and the remaining bedrooms.

Mature trees are a feature of the private garden. The three-car garage also has a storage area and a workshop.

The beach and the golden mile are a short distance away, and Colombo House is close to everything that makes Brighton one of Melbourne’s most aspirational suburbs, including Martin Street village and Bay Street’s shops, cafes and restaurants.

The address is zoned for Elsternwick Primary School and Elwood College and is also close to many prestigious independent schools. ● BEVERLEY JOHANSON property@domain.com.au

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Described by agent Fran Harkin as “sultry and sexy”, this house is a contemporary stunner endowed with a rich and bespoke ambience. The facade greets in polar white.

Along with the garage, the ground level comprises a lounge, an office, a powder room, a laundry and open-plan living giving on to a protected, poolside terrace. Head upstairs for four bedrooms – including a palatial main with all the trappings and second with an en suite – a bathroom and a retreat. Honeycomb tiling embellishes the chef’s kitchen.

The bathrooms opt for moody hues. Oak floors, Turkish sheers, zoned heating and cooling and double-glazing figure among the extras. Built by Boutique Homes to the owner’s specifications, it’s a lifestyle home with style to spare. ● KAY KEIGHERY

Agent: Belle Property Sandringham, Fran Harkin 0414 957 840 Price: $3.15 million-$3.4 million Expressions of interest: Close 5pm, April 6

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Indoor-outdoor interchange plays an integral part in the pleasure of living here. On the ground level, the kitchendining-living area has folding glass doors to a designer deck that feels like an outdoor room. Beyond the deck (with stainless-steel barbecue), the semi-open garage doubles as more space for semi-al fresco socialising. The main bedroom suite follows suit. Occupying the first floor, with a walk-in wardrobe, en suite and other accoutrements, it too has folding glass doors, in this case, opening to a romantic, city-view roof terrace. Both bedrooms on the ground level have fireplaces. The kitchen sports top-shelf appliances.

Location-wise, you’re also spoilt for fresh air, with Albert Park Lake and the beach within strolling distance. ● KAY KEIGHERY

Agent: Marshall White, Oliver Bruce 0409 856 599 Price: $2.7 million-$2.9 million

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This Victorian property in the lifestyle suburb of Albert Park was rebuilt in 2011 to create a home with a high level of style, space and contemporary amenity. The living, kitchen and dining area opens across the entire rear wall to a courtyard filled with greenery and shaded by an electric awning. The living area has a gas pebble fireplace and a skylight, and the white kitchen has stone benchtops and a wine fridge.

The main bedroom is on the ground floor, and a timber single-stringer staircase leads to the first floor, the rest of the bedrooms, and a balcony with city views. The house has a three-kilowatt solar system and lane access from the rear. It is 200 metres from the beach and close to cafes, restaurants and transport. The address is zoned for Albert Park primary and college. ● BEVERLEY JOHANSON

Agent: RT Edgar, Gerald Betts 0418 371 855 Price: $2.35 million-$2.5 million Auction: 10.30am, April 22

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This one-of-a-pair residence delivers modern living with indoor-outdoor advantages. The floor plan is familyoriented, and people who like to entertain al fresco will appreciate the set-up of the backyard. The facade looks handsome in shades of grey. Beyond the garage, mudroomlaundry, powder room and en suite-equipped bedroom on the ground level, the open-plan living area adjoins a side terrace (currently accommodating a kitchen garden) while also affording a broad connection with the entertainment deck, where a shiny barbecue and drinks fridges promote sociable enjoyment, and aspects over the pool and lawn mean you can keep an eye on the kids. A retreat buffers the main bedroom suite from the two minor bedrooms on the first floor. All bedrooms up here have desks. ● KAY KEIGHERY

Agent: Hodges, Amanda Jones 0427 643 760 Price: $1.95 million-$2.09 million Auction: 11am, April 22 DOM A IN REV IEW

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