Luxury home sports a sedate exterior

Unassuming from the outside, but pristine and stylish on the inside. Tommy Barker reports

YOU shouldn’t judge a book by its cover - though we often do. And, in the very same way, house façades are often no guide at all as to what’s on the insides of their walls.

Well, if the walls of 11 Melbourne Mews could talk, they’d whisper — it’s that calming, quiet sort of place, perhaps interrupted just a tad by the crackle of logs on the hearty open fire, with the timber scent mixing with that of wax candles. Yep, this is an immaculate house, in which a woman who knew her mind ruled the roost.