Restoration Australia

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Restoration Australia

Host Anthony Burke meets Deb and Mike who are saving a rickety colonial cottage and digging for the true story of its origins.

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Season 3
57:00
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.
Season 4
58:00
Host Anthony Burke meets Martin Nix who is restoring an 1850s workers cottage in Balmain on Sydney Harbour, all while dealing with a recent family tragedy.
58:00
Host Anthony Burke meets a couple who have purchased one of the most significant buildings in the historic town of Kyneton, Victoria.
57:00
Host Anthony Burke meets a couple who are saving an important example of Federation Queen Anne architecture in coastal NSW, while dealing with a profound health crisis.
57:00
Host Anthony Burke meets retired couple David and Mandy who take on the transformation of a hugely significant historic cottage in Hobart, Tasmania.
56:00
Host Anthony Burke meets a couple who've bought a huge rundown Victorian mansion in Milton, NSW and plan to restore its regal beauty and throw open its doors to the local community.
57:00
Host Anthony Burke meets a couple who are transforming their Mid-Century Modern 1950s house into a family home suitable for 21st Century living, in a beachside paradise just outside Melbourne.
Season 5
57:00
Host Anthony Burke meets a family aiming to turn a tiny war memorial church into a holiday home in the face of local hopes it would be kept as a venerated public landmark. (Final)
57:00
When a charming old Queenslander travels 800 kilometres south of the tropics to an eco-village, it needs a complete retrofit to become uber energy efficient - but will this come at the expense of its heritage?
58:00
Host Anthony Burke meets a couple turning a dilapidated orphanage into a family home. Can their restoration bring laughter and warmth back to an institutional building with a confronting history?
56:00
Host Anthony Burke meets a young couple transforming a tiny miner's cottage into a family home in a celebration of sustainability and old-fashioned craftsmanship.
57:00
Host Anthony Burke meets a couple turning a neglected inner-city Queenslander into a period showcase and eco-friendly, healthy haven as one partner recovers from cancer.
58:00
Host Anthony Burke meets a young couple turning a big crumbling church in remote South Australia - bought with a credit card - into a family home, using the internet as their guide.
57:00
Anthony Burke meets self-confessed 'Architecture Nerds' Annette and Michael Pitman who own the smallest of all the Walter Burley Griffin-designed houses in Castlecrag and want to restore and extend the house.
Season 6
57:00
Host Anthony Burke meets a couple aiming to restore a crumbling stone police station and hope to solve the baffling case of the missing jailhouse. (Final)
57:00
Host Anthony Burke meets a couple turning an 1880s two-storey weatherboard wreck in South Melbourne into a dream home for their growing young family.
57:00
Host Anthony Burke meets a couple supersizing a beachside bungalow into a Sydney trophy home while still somehow trying to preserve its quaint 1920's identity.
58:00
Host Professor Anthony Burke joins a dedicated couple doing all they can to preserve a valuable slice of Australian history that would otherwise dissolve into the dirt and be lost forever.
57:00
Host Anthony Burke meets a King Islander returning home to one of Australia's most remote and weatherbeaten outposts to reclaim and restore a derelict farmhouse.
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