hen we decided to undertake a tricky home extension in South Melbourne, we knew we needed a…read morespecialist residential architect. John Vos and the team at Vos Architecture + Design came referred, and we have had no regrets engaging him. Our brief was a spacious open-plan living, kitchen, and meals area on the ground floor, a seamless inside/outside connection to a new rear yard pool, and an upper-floor addition featuring two bedrooms and a dedicated rumpus area or kids' retreat. Because our property is located within a strict heritage precinct in the City of Port Phillip, the design phase came with significant town planning challenges. John had to ensure the double-story extension remained entirely hidden from the street to protect the historic heritage streetscape. He also had to cleverly manage inner-city design constraints, including strict council regulations regarding overlooking, overshadowing, and maintaining sensitivity to the immediate neighbouring context, all while maximising natural light. The architectural solutions John delivered are wonderful. He designed a beautiful, spacious ground-floor living area with large, high-performance sliding doors that erase the boundary between the interiors and the covered outdoor alfresco and pool area. Upstairs, he created a perfect zone for our children, complete with two generous bedrooms, a beautiful kids bathroom, and a bright kids' retreat. All additional rooms had inbuilt cabinetry which he designed and offered advice with all facets of interior design. Vos Architecture + Design perfectly balanced luxury family living, the budget and the local requirements. He has also been extremely helpful and available with all follow up requests from us when they arose. For anyone looking for a great architect in the Port Phillip area, to navigate complex heritage planning permits and deliver high-end home renovations, we highly recommend John Vos

I'll say this for Pomegranate. They may charge $400 for a lamp, but I don't get the impression that…read morethey're just doing so that they can charge $400 for a lamp. The price isn't the point for their customers, is what I'm saying. Properly cluttered like a knick-knack design shop should be, there's not really a central theme to Pomegranate. There's everything from brass desk lamps to what I assume are terracotta bird feeders. None of it's particularly cheap, but some of it is quite nice.

Pomegranate is a homewares store that has an interesting mix of items. From first glance, it might…read moreappear to be your run of the mill candles and scarves, with a few stools and chairs, but enter and you'll find that there's something different around every corner. Pomegranate has rooms both upstairs and downstairs, which makes it a fun place to explore if you're not shopping for anything in particular. The main room is filled with scarves, candles and kitchen items. Two back rooms store specials, resin jewellery, bags and cushions. Head upstairs and you'll find linens, lamps and designer furniture. Wander outside and you'll see pottery and cacti. Don't come in here with a large bag/backpack, you'll probably break something you can't afford navigating the halls and rooms. Confused at what they're offering here? Well, basically it's anything that could go in a home. There's some pricey items here, but also plenty of items under $50 that are ideal for gifting. I used to think they were expensive, until I spied them offering some pots I had been eyeing off for $10 less than where I had first spotted them. On a $20 item, that's a big difference! Ideal place for last minute gift hunting, big fancy cushions or those great two toned stools that I can't afford.

Thank you Ferris for doing such an excellent job on our four panel bifold timber doors. When we…read morebought the house they were a real effort to move and even the swing open door was misaligned and scraping on the ground. Ferris and his assistant worked on all the hinges, bolts and locks and got everything perfectly aligned again. Now it all moves as smoothly as butter - I am absolutely delighted! Ferris was very professional, efficient and great with communication. Highly recommend him.

I love my new blinds and curtains I ordered through the Curtain Machine. As a younger new home…read moreowner I haven't ever bought blinds before yet the process was easy. I ordered some great plantation shutters for my bathroom and they turned out great,. Really stylish and great quality and wasn't that expensive. Then we got some curtains for the bedrooms and it was so nice to have a huge selection of fabrics to choose from. There would have been a whole wall of fabric swatches to choose from which was great at the Essendon showroom. We live in Brunswick and had the whole house done and I love the new feel of our house. The whole project cost around $6000 which was great value as we got some more expensive fabrics to last us the next 5-10 years.

A great combination of friendliness, professionalism and fair pricing…read more Couldn't recommend them more highly

I have used the services of Cobblers of Kew for over a decade. The team are consummate…read moreprofessionals who are incredibly friendly and accommodating. The service costs are ridiculously inexpensive and the quality of their work is outstanding! Thank you.

I was so happy to find Chippy's Outdoor when searching online because the prices for the items I…read moreneeded really are the cheapest I could find at Chippy's. What I didn't expect was the absolutely exemplary customer service!!! Justin the manager is an extremely customer service oriented person, and highly organised and efficient, and I've been absolutely blown away by the customer service not just the high quality of the items I've purchased! Thank you Justin for your incredible customer service - so refreshing given you don't see that much any more these days. Thank you for your dedication and commitment to help your customers get what they want (especially me lol!), and for being a really decent trustworthy guy. I will never buy any landscaping supplies anywhere but Chippy's now!!

I am POSTING and sharing my experience to try and help others…read more I built a what currently feels like a METRI-COFFIN with Metricon in 2011. My original settlement date was delayed to check for slab heave they said there was nothing wrong, I had fixed site cost however they dug into my flat block of land 1.4m leaving me with additional site cost and retaining wall around my whole 500m2 block and unexpected concrete around the entire house multiple site managers and no-one knew what was going on or why it was done they said it should not have been done. I have a ton of emails from deposit stage saying that retaining walls were included the sales lady even crossed out the retaining wall exclusion on the fixed site cost form emailing me confirmation of them being included before I signed it and paid. They then asked me if it was okay to move my house 35cm away from the fence line so then I wouldn't need retaining walls... I didn't want to but I was trying to work with them and was happy I wouldn't need the 300-600mm est cut it would make it less than a 300mm cut I was advised then shock horror seeing my block with a huge hole leaving a moat around my house. I was stuck because within weeks of moving in my house was falling apart and was told my warranty is void if I don't address these issues and pay them more. Since then earlier last year I have severe heaving walls and floors. I had a mental break down and have not been working since Feb 2016 I had to relocate they came and did a patch job knocking and redoing parts of the house expect the major item that needed addressing. The slab. The ceiling and wall plaster was not even all nailed in they discovered parts of my ceiling were only being held up by the Cornes which is secured with liquid nails when it was torn down and I have damp carpet, loose tiles cracks starting to appear I have spiders living in holes in my mortar so I'm waiting for more bricks to snap off soon. It has given me severe anxiety and panic attacks I signed my contract at 21 hoping for a dream home now I've attempted suicide and have to be medicated and monitored after the torture Metricon homes has put me through mentally and financially my house is still on a lean they attempted redoing some brickwork due to edge heave I have to sticky tape my draws from opening. They never checked under my flooring to see if my slab was ok they said they didn't have time. I have salt attack foam around the edges of my garage that has been sealed numerous times the Metri-con fix was to attempt to angle grind it off just in the visible areas which didn't even work this salt attack can rot timber I have had bricks snap off from the salt it also attacks termites. They admit to the unnecessary stress they put me under but aren't even willing to discuss any sort of compensation and told me to seek legal advise. Well there is another big softley storm coming there way thank gp the warranty manager for that one. This house is just a financial burden and emotional disaster this company has caused I have done everything they told me to do to prevent any further damages, however their delays in denying liability was to late (I did retaining walls and concrete within months of moving in when I noticed what was going on as per their direction..The edge of one side then dropped a bit because I'm guessing it prevented moisture they caused by leaving a moat around my House and a back yard I had to climb into early 2012 there was lots of rain I would just watch my highly reactive balsitic clay splash all over my back sliding door and wait for my fences to fall over ..When the house edge moved again dropping (then they tried to blame my external concrete on the existing problem) Metricon have done 4 drain test to date so far (not even proper ones) but after an inter-pendant complete drain, static and pressure test done...cause of slab heave they were trying to cover up at my cost, only to discover beneath the house sewer leaks, all 9 storm water points leaking all aggy around the house including an incorrect over site cut and slab poured 3 classes below the site soil classification, Due to Metricon's misconduct, non-compliance and deception my house can no longer be my home anymore and has to be knocked down and the site needs 3 years of drying out before commencing re construction THANKS A-LOT I would not trust Metricon to build a kennel for my dog to live in, let alone a house for a family. As for my over all review I would not even give them one star if there was a lower option based on negligence, delay, refuse to admit they are wrong, can't build a house and lie to avoid rectifying their mistakes incase it sets a "precident" METRICON, Love where you heave.

Metricon homes in my opinion are the classiest homes out. The quality is superb and they have so…read moremany styles to choose from. Whether you purchase to cheapest or the most expensive home they have it will look beautiful , modern and classy.

we used the service from Couch Cleaning Melbourne for our upholstery cleaning. Both sofas and rugs…read morecame out brand new. It was hard to believe that the old stubborn stains were gone entirely. We also ended up getting a scotch guard done to prevent future stains. The guy was friendly and professional. He knew what he was doing and explained the whole process in detail. He took his time to complete the job. It was a pleasure to meet such a nice fellow. I highly recommend couch cleaning Melbourne.