This home at 168 Hawthorne Rd, Hawthorne, was once a government housing property. Picture: realestate.com.
au The government housing home where I used to party is now a million-dollar listing and I’m a little shook. Back in 2009, sometime in March, I was sitting on the deck of my sister’s government housing property in Brisbane’s Hawthorne, celebrating my nephew’s third birthday. We talked a big game of “if this house was mine” and “if I had the time and money, what I’d do to this place”.
More than 15 years on and it looks like someone more than talked about it. Yesterday, I stumbled upon the home for sale on realestate.com.
au – but the only thing I recognised was the address. MORE: Brisbane median home price record smashed in June Darwin home prices manage slight lift across financial year The home at 168 Hawthorne Rd, Hawthorne, before renovations. Picture: realestate.
com.au My sister and nephew at the Hawthorne home in 2009. Picture: Supplied In 2009, the balustrades were painted white, the hand rails heritage green and paper streamers were wrapped around the beams supporting a corrugated iron roof.
Family and friends spread out on a second-hand couch and mismatched chairs, snacking on cubed cheese, pickled onions and kabana, while my nephew blew out a candle on a homemade cake. The house itself was an ‘interesting’ design with the front wall forming part of the front fence. The kitchen was outdated, the front porch needed repairing and the paint was.
