Photographer Tom Ross’ Peachy Melbourne Family Apartment
Tom Ross previously lived in a Cairo apartment (one of Melbourne’s outstanding examples of medium-density small housing, designed in the 1930s) so he knows how good design can optimise a compact space.
The photographer and his wife Emily Shields purchased this 1960s apartment in Kew as their future young family home.
Subsequent renovations designed by Architecture Architecture value the same ‘quality over quantity’ approach as Cairo. Two load bearing walls were removed, in favour of an open (peach-coloured) steel frame, allowing light to stream into the living space and kitchen via eight-metres of north-facing glass.