A House for Charlie Home Tour | Let Us In | A Modern Restored Edwardian! S01E04

Hey everyone! You are here, I am here, because both of us love to sneak inside other people's homes and just have a good old sticky beak. Some people like to think of that as stalking, personally I like to think of it as inquisitive. Without further ado, I'm going to take you through a beautiful renovated Federation home in Windsor. Let's go take a look! Oh my gosh! That arch! Wait, I always chose the arch window in play school, so I'm a sucker for an arch. And that skylight, can you see that? That is just punching so much light in here, it's awesome. Oh, there's so much I want to see down there, but first we're going to go into the master bedroom. This is really, really neat. I mean, that looks like a queen, no, that's definitely a king bed actually. Beautiful plantation shutters, this is cool, it's all the heritage, you've got original features up here, you've got the cornices. And I love this, this is an original marble fireplace, that's incredible that mantelpiece, I love it. Oh my god, are you ready? I didn't know Kanye West lived here. What? Oh my god, this is amazing! And then we've got the bathroom, you've got another one of those amazing skylights punching all the light in, and it looks like double shower heads. Let's see what's on the other side. Okay, so we're definitely in kids' territory. This is Charlie's room, Charlie is a lucky boy, this is massive. High ceilings, heaps of storage, again, he's got the original fireplace, which is pretty much taken over by Hot Wheels Ultimate Garage. Let's have a go at this sucker, come on. Okay, all right, let's see what we've got in the rest of the house. Look at the size of this artwork, it's phenomenal, I love it. Beautiful colour fletcher. Oh, another really, really big kids' room. So this is Ollie's room, again, you've got the plantation shutters. I love it, it's a family home, it's awesome, I love the artwork. Oh, my man Geoffrey on the wall there, represent. Before we get into the guts of it, I'm going in here. This is definitely the adult-only room, this is the study. This is beautiful, I love the curtains here, these are incredible. And then I think, look at the amazing light that you get through here, beautiful garden. Open this up, how about I meet you around the other side? Fancy seeing you here, welcome to my home. But first, how clever is this? Storage, not just a pretty faceless house, it's very, very clever. But look at this, look at the size and the scale of this place, the amount of light that's coming through here is beautiful. Brownies, I can only assume that this was left here for me. Oh, my gosh, this is, oh, my gosh. What is this? Even the brownie is amazing. What's over here? Hidden laundry, very cool. Oh, calendar, got my birthday in it. Let's see, what's right in here? May they never forget. Okay, let's go see the rest of the house. I'll get that later. This is where the party obviously happens, beautiful outdoor space. This is a really good sized pool. Outdoor shower, I like that, I like that a lot. This is beautiful, but we're in Melbourne, and so is it heated? It's so warm, it is so warm. Oh, my gosh, there's a lot of land, there's a lot of land down there. Tell you what, let's go have a seat. These guys, they know what they're doing. Oh, they really know what they're doing, look at that. I'm going to grab my brownie, got my water. Ready? I'll meet you on the couch. What I love about this home is that it is seriously, seriously luxe, but at the same time, it's also very practical. I mean, it's very clear to me that this is a family home. The owners have created this with their kids in mind, they've got beautiful rooms for their kids, they've got incredible lawn space, the gardens are fantastic, and plus the pool. I mean, seriously, they've created beautiful spaces for their children, but it's more skewed around the playground for the adults, and that's kind of what I really love. I mean, this is a serious entertainment space. You can tell that the owners love to party, and I mean, they've got a dining table that sits 12 people. I don't even know if I can get 12 people around for dinner. The kitchen is massive, that island bench is just phenomenal, and this couch, oh my God, this couch, it is so big. I could Netflix on here so good, it's just ridiculous, but it's really centralized, it creates a really warm hub, and it just feels friendly, it feels cozy. To be honest, it's hard to do sometimes when you go in kind of a luxury look, it's hard to kind of get that under-earth cozy feel, but they've managed to do it as well. There is very much a monochromatic vibe going on here, there's a lot of black, there's a lot of white, but there's also a lot of marble, so that's beautiful for the textural element, it brings in a little bit of natural tone. The other thing I've noticed is the greenery, there's a really nice feel of, I think, this sort of soft green, eucalyptus, a touch of blue, so it's calming as well, so it softens it a little bit. If you go too heavy on the monochrome, sometimes it can be just a little bit too much and intense, but this feels really warm and really welcoming as well. When I was speaking to the owners about this home, when they had their first child, Charlie, that was when they started to think about, well, we need to create a space now, it needs to be bigger and we want to create a family home. Great bones, obviously, from all the original features that we've seen throughout the tour. This home was originally a little bit closed in, as most of those older homes were, there wasn't a lot of light, there was lots of sort of pokey spaces and different odd-sized rooms tacked on here, there, and everywhere, and so they basically wanted to really focus on space and they really wanted to focus on light and they just wanted to open it all up and make sure that it was a really functional space. That's pretty much what they've done. The size of it is kind of what hits you. You walk through that hallway and it's so, so wide. That hallway is huge. I think the way that they've done it is through those skylights as well. It's really pulled in a lot of light, so if you're wanting to make a space look bigger, the more light you have, the better. And also, what they've done out here as well, because this is south-facing, they've really opened it up by putting windows at the top here, because they're not north-facing, they're not going to have that luxury of the sun streaming into that big open scale from the pool side, so they've done a bit of a trick. They've lifted the roof and they've created a big panel of windows and that really pulls in and draws a lot of light into that living space. Speaking of size, the other thing that I noticed is scale. So the scale of things is really interesting to me because there's so many big things and it just really helps to like elevate everything and just enhance the feeling of scale. Again, the artwork is out of this world big. I can't even begin to explain. It's some of the biggest artwork I've ever seen. And also, what I love about the artwork is that it has very much been mixed. It's not all the same. There's photography, there's beautiful original artwork, there's kids' hand paintings on the wall. There is no formula and I like that, and the owner really loved to actually mix that around as well. And I love to mix artwork, so I love that this owner loves that as well. The other cool thing about this house is that rear access. That used to be an old laneway access for septic collection. Ew. But back in the day, a horse and cart used to have to go down there sorting out the waste. It's locked into this tidal over time and so now they have an incredible access to the back. So the owners are thinking about putting in double car park, maybe putting in a granny flat studio. So there's kind of more to this story as well to come, which is also really cool. I really love the way that the owners have actually celebrated the heritage of this home, but they've also given it an incredible modern makeover. It's very much tradition at the front, party at the back, and I really do like that. It's about entertaining, it's about family, and ultimately, it's a really cozy, happy home. That's it from me, guys. I hope you enjoyed this home tour. Leave us a comment, let us know what you thought. And if you liked it, make it official, hit the like button and subscribe below if you want to see more home tours. I'll catch you next time. Bye!