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Returning: Restoration Australia

Historian Stuart Harrison returns to ABC meeting Australians who transform tumble-down ruins.

Season 3 of Restoration Australia screens on ABC in October as architect and historian Stuart Harrison meets Australians who transform tumble-down ruins into their remarkable historic homes.

This is an 8 part series produced by Fremantle.

From a Federation rambler in country NSW, to a massive, but derelict Baptist Church in Ballarat… a beautiful old Queenslander in the Noosa hinterland that was cut up and bought for $21,000, to a grand inner city terrace under the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the series follows the homeowners as the embark on the massive tasks of restoring their old homes. But the vision of re-creating the houses to turn them into ‘forever’ homes isn’t simple.

To faithfully restore with original fixtures and fittings, they first must replace termite damaged floors, water damaged walls, and rotten ceilings. Some homes don’t even have all four walls or a front door – in fact, one has been lying flat- packed on a bush block for decades waiting to be reassembled and brought back to life.

It is Stuart’s job to help the homeowners on the journey, not only investigating their homes’ historic past but also providing advice, support, and insight into the restoration process. With often tight budgets and limited timeframes the challenge is to help them protect the past while creating beautiful and functional homes for the present without compromising what they fell in love with in the first place.

Production credits: ABC Executive Producer, Leo Faber. Supervising Executive Producer, Brooke Bayvel. Executive Producer, Amanda Bainbridge. A Fremantle Australia production.

7:40pm Sunday October 11 on ABC.

2 Responses

  1. I watched last night’s eposide showing the inner city terrace under the Harbour bridge, & I’m sorry to say that what they did to that little house was an abomination!
    They spent an obscene amount of money, not restoring an old house, but creating something else entirely, & it wasn’t pretty!
    Pity they didn’t stick to modern McMansions instead of destroying the character of that formally beautiful little terrace….

  2. I love this show, but the first series was more enjoyable than the second. Personally, I preferred Sybella Court as the host, although Stuart is obviously very knowledgable. One thing that turned me off the second series a bit was the inclusion of modern buildings in some episodes. However, the offerings listed above sound very good.

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