A Metroland Art Deco Villa in White - Coonans Hill
This cottage style villa with its decorative gabling, leadlight windows, white stucco work and picked out brown and red feature bricks in geometric patterns may be found in the Melbourne suburb of Coonans Hill.
Houses like this were popular amongst the newly moneyed middle-class who could finally afford to buy their own homes. Comfortable and cottage like in the Metroland style of interwar Art Deco architecture so popular in Australia during the late 1920s, this house and many others like it represented stability and respectability, without being showy.
This villa still features its original rounded planter box beneath the front room's bay window. The current owners have added an extra splash of colour to their neat cottage garden by filling the planter box with pretty primulas and petunias in candy box shades. The pomegranite tree in the front garden, judging by its size, was probably planted when the house was first built back in the 1920s.
A Metroland Art Deco Villa in White - Coonans Hill
This cottage style villa with its decorative gabling, leadlight windows, white stucco work and picked out brown and red feature bricks in geometric patterns may be found in the Melbourne suburb of Coonans Hill.
Houses like this were popular amongst the newly moneyed middle-class who could finally afford to buy their own homes. Comfortable and cottage like in the Metroland style of interwar Art Deco architecture so popular in Australia during the late 1920s, this house and many others like it represented stability and respectability, without being showy.
This villa still features its original rounded planter box beneath the front room's bay window. The current owners have added an extra splash of colour to their neat cottage garden by filling the planter box with pretty primulas and petunias in candy box shades. The pomegranite tree in the front garden, judging by its size, was probably planted when the house was first built back in the 1920s.