Making an opening statement  so much care is put into the entrance way to Cambridge houses. Most of the places are bereft of gardens,and some gardens are just so inept. If you only have two metres of front yard a Leylandii does not an appealing feature.  But the doors and brickwork, the paths, cast iron and cobblestone,are so invitational.

So often in Australia we can't even find our front door. The front door of the house we are moving to at Cow Flat is obstructed by fences...you enter stage left and lose your bearings and miss the most magnificent part of the house. I can change that. What I can't do it put one of these Victorian entrances into a Victorian Colonial "bungalow".

I love the use of bright colours, random bricks and modern leadlight. So many of the ancient architectural oddities - angels and ghouls,acanthus mollis cornices are perpetuated in newer and renovated buildings.