Restoration Australia on ABC and ABC iview S7E5 – From a grubby hostel on a busy city street to a creaking, spartan weatherboard in remote countryside, and a raft of daunting restorations in between, the challenges of saving Australia’s heritage homes is a test of willpower, ingenuity, bank balances and relationships. Architecture expert Anthony Burke takes us deep into these passion projects in this brand-new series of Restoration Australia.
Episode Five
Sydney couple Mon and Charlie are preparing for retirement until Mon is online and stumbles upon a ramshackle, neglected and unsympathetically altered 19th century schoolhouse in South Australia’s Adelaide Hills.
Host Professor Anthony Burke joins this pair as they assemble a restoration team and confront the challenges of turning the school into a place that honours its vaulted role in the community and deliverson their dreams of comfortable modern living.
Production credit:
Commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. A Freemantle production. Supervising Executive Producer: Brooke Bayvel. Executive Producer: Michael Collette. ABC Commissioning Editor: Jo Chichester.
Restoration Australia on ABC and ABC iview – Thursday 1 May at 8.00pm
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Restoration Australia on ABC and ABC iview S7E5
