There’s a quiet sort of presence to Deco House. You notice it in the weight of the original structure, the proportions of the facade, the way light hits the steel-framed windows. Originally designed by Edith Ingpen, the first woman to graduate with a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Melbourne, the 1930s home sits firmly in its context. The project began not with reinvention, but with care. Peeling back the layers, the bones were still there.