A Family’s Magical Mid-Century ‘Treehouse’ Is For Sale In Kew East

There’s a ton that feels magical about the home at 24 Lister Street, in Melbourne’s Kew East. Designed and made by proprietor-architect Keith Lodge, it features all the qualities of a coveted home from the modernist era – from its use of geometric glass to its amazing composition, elevated above ground by a common steel body.

But perhaps even a lot more unique is the story powering it, possessing been lived in and cherished by Keith’s family members for an extraordinary six many years. Right until now!

‘Our father created and crafted this home in 1959,’ a person of the vendor’s young children Fiona Lodge claims. ‘He was a young enthusiastic architect who conceived the home at the age of 26, which has develop into a lot more amazing to me in my grownup several years, for him to display these kinds of a bold and but powerful home, which frankly has stood the check of time.’

It was at first created as a ‘humble’ two-bed room home set in farm-like surrounds and unmade roadways, with views through to the Yarra River and outside of. ‘As the precinct matured and grew, so did the family members and in convert the house,’ Fiona clarifies.

In 1967, the household was extended out to the east with two more bedrooms, and in 1973 a playroom and two more bedrooms ended up added in an underneath croft which is linked to the key dwelling ground by a spiral stair. Inside timber features provide supplemental heat and attraction, though an first 12ft granite wall showcasing an open fire has been the literal coronary heart of the home for the relatives to assemble all-around.

The homeowners say its powerful architectural bones have been tailored to modern living in excess of the previous 60 many years, even transforming the interior color techniques of the four-bed room home several instances. But 1 of the Lodge’s favourite features is the facade and triangular home windows, which frame the 1575 square metre block’s established indigenous gardens.

‘To believe that the wonderful, landscaped yard that appears to be like a lot more like parkland, was planted by our mom and dad, every single single tree,’ she adds. ‘Unbeknown to me, as a child, we were dwelling amongst the treetops, with views throughout parkland, in just suburban Kew. Our father under no circumstances weary of pointing out: that no window was the similar, the way the light would stream through the home windows at the proper time of the day and the magical sensation of residing within just the treetops. He made use of to say, “look we reside in a tree house”.’

Now, the nostalgic Lodge Home is lastly on the market place, and the family’s hoping to hand the property above to somebody who will cherish it for decades to occur!

24 Lister Avenue, Kew East is mentioned with Kay & Burton Hawthorn with expressions of interest closing October 25 at 5pm.