The Fintelmansion

A little information on our house as it stands  The street plan circa 1905, complete with middle of the road sink. Our house was built in 1888 by The Slater Brothers*, as part of a set of four terrace houses on a main street in Fitzroy, Melbourne, three of which are still standing. The house is 127 years old! The original Victorian era house was a two-story double-brick terrace with four rooms, oriented north-south and sharing the east and west walls with its neighbours. The downstairs was originally just a hallway with two rooms and a terrifyingly steep staircase running across the house between them. The upstairs consists of two rooms separated by the staircase. Three of the four rooms had a fireplace. The house got a weatherboard add on in 1905 which now comprises a lounge room and at the very back, a kitchen, with a fireplace between these two rooms. The house also has a crumby lean-to add on like many of these houses, which includes a fairly gross bathroom and laun...

About The Fintelmans We are Emily and Gary and we are a couple in our twenties who have just bought our first house together. We both seem to have missed the gene that makes you interested in houses with these kind of windows and instead love old houses and the history they have. We both love Grand Designs and tolerate The Block, and have bought our slightly shabby 19th century terrace house with the intention of renovating over a couple of years. The plan is to restore it to its former glory, whilst adding space and features to suit our totally hipster 21st century lifestyle. It might not look like much now, but in our minds/in the future/in a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, it's incredible. Should be fun. At the moment the house is being rented out and we will continue living in our love shack about 20 minutes away while we prepare our building plans and lodge applications. We will be doing some minor works on the house in the next few months before we go full ball and...