Mount Eliza, Mornington and the clifftop paint problem
Wind, salt, slope and dark palettes make clifftop and harbour-side houses a different specification. A local guide to Mount Eliza, Mornington and the western Port Phillip edge.
Frankston to Portsea, street by street
Peninsula streetscapes
Housing stock changes every few kilometres down the Peninsula. Frankston’s post-war weatherboards are not Mount Eliza’s clifftop renders, and neither is a Langwarrin brick veneer. These guides are written from the street, not from a metro average.
A painting guide to Frankston, Seaford and Langwarrin streetscapes
Housing stock changes in a few kilometres: Seaford weatherboards, Frankston’s mixed bayside streets, Langwarrin’s brick veneers. What to specify on each, and which failures to expect.