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HOMES

ARTIST ANDREW O’BRIEN AND GEORGIE CORKE, FOUNDER OF

THEHOME-JOURNAL.COM, AND 2-YEAR-OLD TWINS LENI AND BECKETT

“I grew up in Bayside Melbourne in a house built in the 1900s,” Andrew says. “The house

was built by an owner-builder influenced by American architecture and in particular

Thomas Jefferson’s house, Monticello, in Virginia, USA. It had a large columned portico,

red brick and white rendered pelmets. It influenced me to think about crafting a space

with rigorous attention to materials and simple strong proportions.” A

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