We see a lot of houses here at TDF, but we’ve never seen an Australian house quite like Bronte Taton’s! 

Bronte’s family home is reminiscent of classical Greek architecture, and surrounded by a French-inspired garden in Darlington – a quaint country town 30 minutes from Perth. 

The creative director and antique collector at Cleo Collects moved here with her husband Joshua Casey, Indigenous program coordinator and design teacher shortly after the birth of their daughter, Clementine. The move has felt like returning home to Bronte, who grew up between Paris and California. The dream!

Yesterday we brought you our most popular homes of 2019, but today we’re focusing solely on a specific style of home that’s very dear to TDF readers – mid-century modern!

Homes from the 1950s, 60’s and 70’s  consistently rate among the most read stories we publish. Today, we revisit your top ten favourite examples from the past year!

In the early 1970s, a young architect named Stuart Whitelaw was engaged by Marr Grounds – a sculptor and lecturer in architecture who Stuart worked with at the University of Sydney – to design his personal home.

Upon seeing the proposed design, Marr Grounds’ father, famed architect Sir Roy Grounds, decided to buy the house next door, that Stuart was also designing. 

A long and complicated history ensued (which Stuart has extensively documented), but today, the latter of these two heritage-protected homes belongs to architect Conrad Johnston, director of Fox Johnston.

Conrad recently re-engineered the house for contemporary family life, turning what was originally  a two bedroom home into one with four-bedrooms and an additional two-bedroom granny flat. The updated home offers stronger connections to landscape and place, while maintaining the integrity of the heritage structure.