Daggy Delight: The Best Uncool-But-We-Love-It Homes
Not every house on the list is a marble palace. Some are just properly daggy, and we love them for it. A house that seems to have been designed around its bar. A backyard with a hand-built cave. A Belrose home still wearing its 1970s best. These places were never trying to impress anyone, and they're more charming because of it. They never made a design magazine. They made us smile instead.
For SaleOxley Built a Booth Into the Kitchen
Boiling an egg? Take a seat. The kitchen has a booth.
For SaleStirling's Lounge Room Is a Par Three
Is it a carpet, or a putting green that went a little too far?
For saleMount Macedon's Castle-Adjacent Party House
Not a castle. Castle adjacent. The stairs on the outside go to the roof.
For SaleWarners Bay Has a Cave and Nobody Will Say Why
IT'S GOT A CAVE.
Not for saleGreenwith's Red Heart Tub Has Seen Things
There's a red heart-shaped spa in the bedroom. No door. No wall.
SoldRenovate This, Go to Jail: Newstead's Time Capsule
The agent says it has incredible potential. How dare you.
SoldThe Blue Carpet Cannot Be Ignored: Daylesford
The blue carpet cannot be ignored. We tried.
SoldKentucky Blue and Not One Day Younger: Lambton's Time Capsule
Finished in 1978. Everyone agreed never to speak of it again.
SoldIt's Red. It's Very Red.: Nowra's Boogie Nights House
It's red. Not striking red. Just red.
For SaleDo Not Touch This House: Lane Cove Edition
Fifty years, one family, zero renovations. Do not touch it.
Not for saleThe House That Bloomed Too Much
Normal brick house outside. Every doily in New South Wales inside.
For SaleShe Left And Never Came Back
She left five furnished bedrooms and a teddy bear behind. We have questions.
Under ContractThe House That Started At The Bar
The bar came first. The house was designed backwards from it.
SoldThe House The Jungle Ate
The garden won this fight years ago.
SoldThe 3.4 Metre Wonder
3.4 metres wide. The bath is in the side passage.
For SaleWhat Was I Thinking?: Port Lincoln's Gold-And-Marble Fever Dream
Two houses stacked on top of each other, joined by a golden nude.
SoldThe Time Machine On Park Street
The red leather bar is still waiting for guests who stopped coming decades ago.
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