Restoration Australia
Season 3
2020 • 8 Episodes
Stuart Harrison, Architect and Historian, follows homeowners across the country as they restore Australia's greatest buildings.
Episodes
1. Milton Terrace, NSW
October 11, 2020
Milton Terrace at Millers Point in Sydney was sold off for $4.25M in 2015 as part of the NSW Government's disposal of 300 public housing buildings. For property developer Michael Stokes, it's a Mayfair terrace in the making.
2. Egan House, NSW
October 18, 2020
Hardware store owners Jo and Digby McNeil took on more than just the restoration of a heritage home in Inverell, NSW, when they bought an historic 'job lot' that included a convent and an old boys' boarding school.
3. Nanima, NSW
October 25, 2020
Carl and Jennie Palmer set about trying to recreate their Federation homestead's grandeur but finding the line between a functioning modern home and a heritage restoration is harder than they anticipate.
4. Clydesdale, Vic
November 1, 2020
When carpenter Kate and her mother Ann buy two old prospecting huts for $100,000 in Clydesdale in regional Victoria, they take on 180 years worth of dilapidation.
5. Ballarat, Vic
November 8, 2020
When a former Baptist Church cum nightclub hits the market in Ballarat, local anaesthetist Michael Whitehead buys it and plans to turn it into a home, but he soon finds the task could drag on for eternity!
6. Grimes Cottage, NSW
November 15, 2020
When a Sydney couple buy a colonial cottage in one of Australia's most protected heritage areas, they get more than they bargained for. How will they transform a home from the 19th century into a family home for the 21st?
7. Cooroy, Qld
November 22, 2020
When Mel and Jack buy a derelict old Queenslander for $21,000 and move it to their land in Noosa it seems they've scored the bargain of the century, or at least a century old bargain!
8. Mittagong, NSW
November 29, 2020
Heritage devotees Val and John Jessop decide to buy and reassemble two old buildings - an old ghost town cottage and an old sawmill. What could be more difficult than that?