Here is our house as it stood when we first bought it in May 2007. It is a late 1940's or early 1950's fibro house located in Hunters Hill around the Boronia Park area. We bought the house with the intention to knock down and rebuild in the not so distant future. We looked at several older houses in the area, but many of them were protected by heritage conservation, so when this house came up for sale we snapped it up. The plan was to stay in the house for about 5 years then rebuild, but in the end we decided to build after only 3 years as we have a young family and wanted to get the new house built before school starts!!
After 3 years living in the house, we had mixed feelings about knocking it down. The house had a certain charm about it, but in the end, waking up to 5 degree temps inside the house in winter, hot summers, and house basics screaming out for urgent repairs and renovation meant our old house had reached the end of its life...
