Eddie Perfect: Brunswick West home where famed entertainer worked on Beetlejuice the Musical hits the market
39 Barkly St, Brunswick East, has been home to Eddie Perfect’s family for a decade.
The Brunswick West home where Eddie Perfect conceived the songs of Beetlejuice the Musical has hit the market.
The stage star is also famed for musicals including Shane Warne The Musical, and Keating! The Musical.
Perfect is also no stranger to the screen, having appeared in TV shows including Kath and Kim, Stingers, Blue Heelers, Spicks and Specks as well as in comedy gigs.
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Beetlejuice The Musical has been on Broadway in the United States and comes to Melbourne next year, with the Tim Burton classic film from 1988 having just been renewed with a sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
For the past 10 years he and wife Lucy Cochran have lived at 39 Barkly St, Brunswick East, raising their children and embracing the location between Lygon St eateries, the Melbourne Zoo precinct, Fitzroy North’s Edinburgh Gardens and the Merri Creek.
Nelson Alexander’s Tom Breen is handling the sale of their home and said after a week of inspections buyers were already commenting on the benefits of a neighbourhood that was “close to the action, but not too close”.
The home has had a style-centric renovation.
They have also commented on the home’s “really nice renovation”.
Overseen by Splinter Society Architecture, the home’s renewal includes a showstopping kitchen and living area with premium appliances and bold blue feature walls, as well as stacking doors that open to the back garden.
Lemon, plum and olive trees feature in the yard.
A second ground-floor living space is warmed by a fireplace, with the rest of the level hosting two bedrooms and a bathroom.
The upper level is devoted to a single bedroom with an ensuite, study and balcony.
“And it has really good light coming in, and a fantastic location on the border of Carlton North,” Mr Breen said.
The home’s lavish new kitchen opens out to the back deck.
A second living space has an open fireplace as a visual highlight.
But it’s the studio out the back that could have the next owners embracing their inner creative, having been used by Perfect as a space to work on ideas and projects during his time at the property.
The agent said he wasn’t 100 per cent how much of the Beetlejuice musical had been penned at the property, but believed the studio out the back had been involved.
While the family was moving south of the Yarra, Mr Breen said the family had “loved” their time in Brunswick East.
The theatre family’s busy lifestyle had also proven the home’s benefits as a lock-up-and-leave address, he added.
The upstairs bedroom comes with its own balcony.
Ground level rooms still feature character details including picture rails and decorative cornices.
So far the property has attracted “really good numbers” in an early positive sign for the property’s September 21 auction.
To date, most of the prospective buyers have been young families or young professionals.
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