With its excessive ceilings and industrial heritage, the Melbourne dwelling of content material creator Camelia Farhoodi and photographer Ramsay Hosn is harking back to a New York loft.

The couple found the Fitzroy condo for lease in 2022 after they have been residing in Heidelberg West.

‘[Living in Heidelberg West] was a really completely different expertise because it felt very suburban, and we wished to strive one thing completely different. We determined we’d attempt to discover a place within the coronary heart of the motion, and we have been going to inspections on the lookout for over a yr to search out this gem,’ says Camelia.

Camelia and Ramsay noticed an commercial for flats and townhouses in a brand new improvement, and determined to have a look.

The event was a two-storey heritage brick constructing in Fitzroy that had not too long ago been transformed into townhouses and flats. When designing the challenge, Kerstin Thompson Architects challenged the council on typical heritage responses, in an effort to construct the higher extension in alignment with the face of the heritage facade beneath, fairly than having this set again and ‘wedding ceremony caked.’ This manoeuvre allowed the flats to be pushed to the perimeter, making a central courtyard shared by all residents. The idea attracts on Italian housing fashions that reveal a personal ‘interior world’ behind their robust road frontage.

Camelia and Ramsay appreciated the transformed constructing’s architectural design and the distinct interiors of every residence. ‘Upon coming to the inspections, we realised how completely different every residence was,’ says Camelia. ‘To call a couple of standout options: the unique facade, excessive ceilings, exhausting picket flooring mixed with concrete, and fashionable utilities however with classical options which are simply so exhausting to search out in new buildings.’

There was additionally loads of area for Camelia and Ramsay’s pet snake, Leche! ‘Ramsay has stored and bred snakes for over 15 years, however now he simply retains one as a pet,’ says Camelia. ‘He spent a whole lot of time placing collectively the proper naturalistic enclosure for little Leche, as there’s not precisely the largest marketplace for such a factor. It positively was a problem to discover a place to accommodate it, as most new developments have bedrooms that may barely match a mattress — not to mention work gear and different giant items!’

Camelia says she and Ramsay have beforehand made the error of furnishing a house too rapidly, so that they’re taking a slower method this time round. ‘That doesn’t work out very properly when our temperamental tastes change from month to month,’ she explains. ‘We’re taking our time fastidiously selecting items so as to add to our dwelling.’

Among the couple’s favorite items embrace their stone espresso desk (‘We’ve modified nearly all the pieces however stored that piece for the final three years,’ Camelia says) and the Persian rug purchased from Fb Market (‘an ode to our backgrounds’).

Camelia describes the house as lofty and industrial, with mid-century impressed influences. It’s a ‘briefly minimal’ however ‘ultimately maximal area’, she muses.