Interior Designer: Rob Mills, Armadale, Melbourne

INTERIOR DESIGNER & ARCHITECT Rob Mills‘ own home, a former warehouse at Armadale Residence, in the Melbourne suburb of Armadale, was once a cardboard factory on the edge of a tree-lined park. Today, it is a stunning, light-filled family home with a self-contained two-bedroom apartment on the ground floor, which can be rented out or used for guests or extended family, while the five-bedroom main living area is on the first floor. Here, there are high ceilings and a beautiful selection of materials that interact with each other in the most glamorous way — dusky stucco walls and a spiral staircase, stone floors from a sixth generation quarry in Verona and veined marble with traces of brownish-red — but the pièce de résistance is the brass kitchen that is truly a work of art. Deep door frames are also brass-lined adding fluidity to the space. The home is also sustainable, with the use of organic and low-VOC paints and glues, indirect lighting, cross-ventilation and low-e glass. Scroll through for a glimpse…

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